Historically, when looking for ways to maintain a program or an organization, philanthropy tends to focus exclusively on funding programmatic work. As we all know, this is essential to a ...

Capacity building—the process of building the systems, structures, and skills organizations need to succeed—is getting left behind, and it has nothing to do with the quality or effectiveness of the ...

Age: Like local ownership, its blood brother and fellow sustainable development prerequisite, capacity building came into its own as a concept during the 1990s – though its essential principles, ...

Capacity building refers to the process of developing and strengthening the skills, knowledge, resources, and abilities of individuals, organizations, or communities to effectively achieve their goals ...

125. Enhance and accelerate human, institutional and infrastructure capacity-building initiatives and promote partnerships in that regard that respond to the specific needs of developing countries in ...

A mantra in development, and a constant demand in every policy paper, is that there is a need for "capacity development". The fact that this is still such a prevalent prescription gives an idea of how ...

In development and education discourses, “capacity building” is often thought of as a process or approach to improving education practices, systems and structures. Recognising capacity building as ...

This commentary is an adaptation of remarks delivered before the UN Security Council. I thank Estonia for this opportunity to speak before the Security Council. International attention on ...