Capacity building: A primer

Capacity building in Nepal*

There’s an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.” But do we believe this? Many health care providers sacrifice their time and money to provide medical aid to underserved populations in remote environments. But is this helpful? Underserved populations need more than just another doctor. Short-term medical aid, with the exception of disa...

Productivity and Capacity Building

“Productivity and Capacity Building”, may not be far from the nascent realization of the primacy and centrality of humans in economic development and growth process of a nation an aspect of the problem that falls into the mandates of my organisation – the National Manpower Board (NMB). This, no doubt, agrees with the enfolding major developmental paradigm shift to a new programme with profound ...

Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

Systemic capacity building: a hierarchy of needs.

'Capacity building' is the objective of many development programmes and a component of most others. However, satisfactory definitions continue to elude us, and it is widely suspected of being too broad a concept to be useful. Too often it becomes merely a euphemism referring to little more than training. This paper argues that it is more important to address systemic capacity building, identify...

Building capacity in assistive technologies

The Northern Territory Department of Education (DoE) provided assistive technology to support the teaching and learning of students with disability, and teacher training in integrating this technology in the classroom. A professional learning consultant was recruited in October 2012 with responsibility for researching and sourcing appropriate resources based on an evaluation of the needs of stu...