Challanges in Capacity Development

1. Rabin K. Acharya, PhD
CAPACITY
DEVELOPMENT

2. BASIC UNDERSTANDING
• Generic capacities
• the ability to plan & manage
organizational changes & service
improvements
• Specific capacities
• for e.g., public financial management or
trade negotiations
Capacity –
‘ability of people,
organizations
and society as a
whole to
their affairs
successfully’

3. NWANKWO ET AL.
Capacity as the capability of a person,
an institution or organization to
perform a given task effectively,
efficiently and on a continuing basis
and with reduced dependence on
external resources.

4. Capacity building implies activities which
strengthen the knowledge, abilities, skills
and behavior of individuals and improve
institutional structures and processes such
that the organization can efficiently meet
its mission and goals in a sustainable way

5. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
The process by which individuals and organizations obtain,
improve, and retain the skills and knowledge needed to do
their jobs competently.
Capacity development is a process of change, and hence is
about managing transformations. People's capacities and
institutional capacity and a society's capacity change over time.
A focus on what development policies and investments work
best to strengthen the abilities, networks, skills and knowledge
base cannot be a one-off intervention.

6. LEVELS OF CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
 Organizational Perspective
 Individual level
 Group level
 Organizational level
 Societal Perspective
 Individual level
 Institutional level
 Society level

7. STEPS IN CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
•Training Need (TNA)
•Organizational Development (ODNA)Conducting Assessment
•Employee
•Customer
•BOD
Engage stakeholders on
capacity development
•Capacity development profile
•Recommendation
Assess capacity needs and
assets
•Institutional arrangements
•Leadership
•Knowledge
•Accountability
Formulate a capacity
development response
•Capacity Development Plan
Implement a capacity
development response
•Monitoring, evaluation and Learning
Evaluate capacity
development

8. ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

9. Adjustment of organizational Structure
Learning organization
Community of practice (CoP)
Knowledge management
Participatory Action Research

10. ADJUSTMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE

11. LEARNING ORGANIZATION
Knowledge management (KM) is the
process of creating, sharing, using and
managing the knowledge and information of
an organisation. It refers to a
multidisciplinary approach to achieving
organizational objectives by making the best
use of knowledge

12. COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (COP)
A community of practice (CoP) is
a group of people who share a
craft or a profession.

13. PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

14. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Process of creating, sharing, using and
managing the knowledge and information of an
organisation.

15. LEVEL OF ANALYSIS
•Experience
•Knowledge
•Technical skills
Individual level
•Systems
•Procedures
•rules
Organizational level
•(institutional framework
•power structure & influence
Enabling
environment

16. BARRIERS TO CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

17. Lack of data or incomplete information
Wrong identification of problem
Shortsighted and poorly integrated vision
Inadequate resources
Low ownership and participation
Weak leadership

18. DISCUSSIONS