hello guys what is the meaning of capacity building
well if you come across this way before
and if you've been in the development
work for quite some time now you realize
that this is not a new term but no money
people may have an idea of what capacity building
is but they just want to know
the meaning of capacity building and
also capacity building techniques casa
capacity building skills and the
capacity building approach
well I won't go any further right now
but let's just go straight to Google
because Google has all the answers so
let's tape
what is the meaning of capacity building
ok let's wait for it okay there they can
so you can see there's a lot of
definitions there but google always
chooses wikipedia it says community
capacity beauty and building also
referred to capacity building and
development is a conceptual approach to
social or personal development
ok I'll end there so if you look at just
the opener you'll find that it's an
approach to developing the social and
personal skills could be of individuals
or an organization but I was here before
and there's one definition i really
liked seeing and that is coming from wh
or it just sums up everything folks
okay so it says here capacity building
has typically been defined as the
development and strengthening of human
and institutional resources it just sums
it up like that you know folks in the
development world there is no one
organization that's perfect in
everything even big organizations like
the united nations may lack certain
skills set in technical know-how that
they need to outsource but just to go
through this definition you're going to
see that its capacity building has two
dimensions that mentions firstly there
is development
ok and secondly this strengthening of
human and institutional resources so
these resources could be a manpower all
as i mentioned the organization so
usually organizations around the world
you know there's no organization that's
perfect
some organizations may be good at
financial management others may be good
at monitoring and evaluation others
might be good at trainings different
things they may be good at that even
designing programs projects but those
who are good at doing this maybe week in
other areas like let's say an
organization may be good at designing
projects or designing programs but they
maybe we can in in monitoring and
evaluation so what do they do they
outsource those skills from someone else
or from organizations that can do their
capacity so if you look at these
pictures usually capacity beauty new you
discover that if you're building
capacity in an organization you discover
that somebody from somewhere may come
and organize a workshop or training and
if you look at this room and she may be
good at financial management and watches
doing she's training other person there
who are not good in that field and this
is also the same with this if you look
at this lady she's building capacity of
all these people who may not be good in
a certain field so how does this relate
to what
return and evaluation if you're good in
em and II then it's your time to build
the capacity of those who are weak
how do you do so well simple just get
seen let people know that you are
credible let people know that you can do
this stuff you know you're not you know
the things they are teaching and when
they call upon you
organiser training you the capacity let
people get strengthened in m and E so
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