Capacity Building

1. Capacity Building

2. Meaning of capacity building • Capacity building is an ongoing process through which individuals, groups, organizations and societies enhance their ability to identify and meet development challenges. •  Capacity building often refers to strengthening the skills, competencies and abilities of people and communities in developing societies so they can overcome the causes of their exclusion and suffering.

3. The UNDP defines capacity building as a long-term continual process of development that involves all stakeholders; including ministries, local authorities, non-governmental organizations, professionals, community members, academics and more. • The goal of capacity building is to tackle problems related to policy and methods of development, while considering the potential, limits and needs of the people of the country concerned.

4. UNDP outlines that capacity building takes place on three level • Individual level- Capacity-building on an individual level requires the development of conditions that allow individual participants to build and enhance existing knowledge and skills. It also engage in the “process of learning and adapting to change” 

5. Institutional level- Capacity building on an institutional level should involve aiding pre-existing institutions in developing countries. It should involve modernizing existing institutions and supporting them in forming sound policies, organizational structures, and effective methods of management and revenue control.

6. Societal level- Capacity building at the societal level should support the establishment of a more “interactive public administration that learns equally from its actions and from feedback .Capacity building must be used to develop public administrators that are responsive and accountable

7. Process of Capacity Building • Information • Visioning • Planning • Implementation • Reflection

8. capacity building in organizations should first focus on • Human resource development, the process of equipping individuals with the understanding, skills and access to information, knowledge and training that enables them to perform effectively. • Organizational development, the elaboration of management structures, processes and procedures, not only within organizations but also the management of relationships between the different organizations and sectors (public, private and community). • Institutional and legal framework development, making legal and regulatory changes to enable organizations, institutions and agencies at all levels and in all sectors to enhance their capacities

9. social capital are developed through: • interactions(through work or through shared interests) which can serve to increase people's ability to work together; • membership of more formalised groups in which relationships are governed by accepted rules and norms; • relationships of trust that facilitate co-operation, and sometimes help in the development of informal safety nets amongst the poor. • Social capital helps people work together, and so it has a direct impact upon all the other types of capital

10. Social capital • Social capital is defined, as 'the social resources upon which people draw, in pursuit of their livelihood objectives.'

11. Physical capital • Physical capital comprises the basic infrastructure and physical goods that support livelihoods. • affordable transport systems • water supply and sanitation (of adequate quantity and quality) • energy (that is both clean and affordable) • good communications and access to information

12. Human capital • Human capital represents the skills, knowledge, capacity to work and good health that together enable people to pursue different livelihood strategies and achieve their livelihood objectives.

13. Natural capital • Natural capital is the term used for the natural resource stocks (e.g. trees, land, clean air, coastal resources) upon which people rely. The benefits of these stocks are both direct and indirect.

14. Financial capital financial capital is defined as the financial resources that people use to achieve their livelihood objectives. • These resources include: • Available stocks: • Regular inflows of money: