by Nancy Gilbert | Mar 2, 2021 | Course Materials, News
Spur Canada offers free online Results Based Management course
The online course takes a total of 3 hours. It is suggested you not spend more than 20 minutes at a time, in order to absorb the material. A certificate is available at the end.
by Nancy Gilbert | Nov 11, 2016 | Community Transformation Centres, Course Materials, News
Isn’t capacity building a potentially never-ending bureaucrat’s fantasy? Isn’t it time for a serious rethink?
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/nov/10/what-does-capacity-building-mean
In broadest terms, capacity building means improving the organisational performance of institutions. But the terms technology transfer, institutional strengthening, capacity building and capacity development have all been used to describe more or less the same process – so there’s a distinct lack of clarity about the concept.
Capacity building has been a cornerstone of development policy for 70 years and vast amounts of money have been spent on it. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development calculated that capacity building accounts for 25% of aid expenditure, representing about US$15bn (£12bn) a year. (more…)