Table of Contents
Foreword ................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 7
I. Why Focus on Capacity? .................................................................................................................................... 11
II. What Has Been Learned? ................................................................................................................................. 15
III. From Emerging Consensus to Better Practice on the Ground ..................................................................... 19
IV. Capacity Development in Fragile States ........................................................................................................ 35
V. Moving Forward: Unfinished Business ............................................................................................................ 39
Notes ....................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Annex A. Vicious and Virtuous Cycles of Empowerment .................................................................................. 43
Annex B. UNDP’s Default principles for Capacity Development ...................................................................... 44
Tables
Table 1. Achieving a fit between capacity development approaches and country realities:
Issues to consider. ................................................................................................................................. 20
Boxes
Box 1. Capacity development in the 2005 Paris Declaration ...................................................................... 16
Box 2. Conditions that have made public sector capacity difficult to develop ........................................ 17
Box 3. Conditions favouring capacity development in organisations ...................................................... 18
Box 4. Addressing the enabling environment for capacity development in Nigeria ............................... 21
Box 5. Reforming the business environment in Afghanistan ..................................................................... 23
Box 6. Parliament drives the establishment of external audit function in Montenegro ......................... 24
Box 7. From top-ups to sustainable incentives for civil servants, Tanzania ............................................. 27
Box 8. Forms of donor support to capacity for decentralised education service delivery in Ethiopia .. 28
Box 9. Community organisations develop capacity in Croatia ................................................................... 29
Box 10. Sri La
3. DAC Guidelines and Reference Series
A DAC Reference Document
The Challenge
of Capacity Development
WORKING TOWARDS GOOD PRACTICE
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