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Capacity Building

The concept of capacity (pdf 141kb)

Despite the broad use of the terms capacity and capacity development there remains a lack of shared understanding of what is meant when these terms are used. Different actors use the terms to describe different concepts.

This analysis examines the paradox associated with such drivers understandings of capacity and capacity development, resulting in a definition used for this report.

The report makes the important point that a lack of common understanding is not a purely abstract problem but has practical implications across a range of issues such as how donors harmonise on capacity development and how we monitor capacity development.

 

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