International Perspectives on Third Sector Capacity Building: Strategies for Social Change

The growth of interest in the third sector over recent decades has resulted in new opportunities to engage in service delivery and in partnership working alongside the state and other partners. Along with these opportunities has come a new concern with capacity building – to ensure that third sector organisations are fit for purpose and can discharge their new responsibilities effectively. There is, of course a much longer tradition of capacity building in the global South, often delivered by Northern based NGOs, but from which Northern policy and practice has much to learn.