Challenging Capacity Building: Comparative Perspectives

Sexual health promotion programme: Participants’ perspectives on capacity building

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate a Health Service Executive (HSE) Foundation Programme in Sexual Health Promotion (FPSHP) with a specific emphasis on capacity building. Design: A mixed-method design using both quantitative and qualitative methods was used to collect the data. Setting: The FPSHP was delivered to staff working in health, education and community settings and was d...

Challenging Perspectives on Work and Technology

"Organizations typically display inertia through their established routines, institutionalized practices, and taken-for-granted assumptions that inform and reinforce the status quo...Managers not only have vested interests in an existing order, they also tend to be rooted firmly in a given understanding of reality, making acceptance of an alternative structural order and new view of the world p...

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