Editorial
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Local expertise to support people and organisations in developing their capacities is arguably one of the most valuable resources a society can have to boost development.
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In capacity development, it is good to be humble and recognise the contextual dynamics that are often more forceful and influential in the long term than support intervention itself. This issue of Capacity.org focuses on methods that can help to...
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Trachoma is an eye disease caused by poor sanitation and hygiene. Flies spread the disease in areas where people openly defecate. Trachoma can develop into trichiasis, which, without surgery, can cause blindness. In some regions of Ethiopia over...
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One might think that the recent rise in global food prices presents an opportunity for the developing world’s 450 million smallholder farmers. But too few are responding by increasing production. Why is this so? In this issue, Jack Wilkinson, fo...
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Countless organisations have experimented with ways to improve their performance through learning since Peter Senge published his trailblazing book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization in 1990.
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The concept of the ‘fragile state’ entered the development discourse when, in the early 1990s, governance in Somalia disintegrated. Thousands of people fell victim to violence and millions faced starvation. Fragile states, however, were not give...
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Issue 27 of Capacity.org addressed the roles of networks and partnerships in capacity development. To take the discussion one step further, and make it more concrete and specific, this issue focuses on the role of partnerships in the delivery of...
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Measuring the results and outcomes of our work is part and parcel of the work we do. One reason is that we have to report to our directors and our donors what it is we actually achieve. If a project or programme is based on results-based managem...
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This issue of Capacity.org includes contributions on various aspects of leadership. Leadership is about action and about change at the individual, organisational and societal levels. Ultimately, leadership is indispensable for the development an...
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Check any job ad at random, and you are likely to come across ‘excellent networking abilities’ as one of the requirements. Although it often simply means having useful and well connected people in your address book, the term is increasingly bein...