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Capacity Development in Practice - Complete Publication

Edited by Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo and Alan Fowler. Published 2010


The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals.

Practical illustrations draw on experiences from the civic, government and private sectors. A central theme is to understand capacity as more than something internal to organisations. This book shows how capacity also stems from connections between different types of actor and the levels in society at which they operate.

The content is crafted for a broad audience of practitioners in capacity development: consultants, managers, front-line workers, trainers, facilitators, leaders, advisors, programme staff, activists, and funding agencies. 

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Table of contents


Part I Perspectives on Capacity

1. Multiple Dimensions

The Multi-faceted Nature of Capacity: Two Leading Models
Alan Fowler and Jan Ubels

2. Multiple Actors

Capacity Lives Between Multiple Stakeholders
Jim Woodhill

3. Multiple Levels

Capacities at Multiple Levels and the Need for Connection: A Bhutan Example
Hendrik Visser

Part II Establishing your Practice

4. Advisers’ Roles

Choosing a Consulting Role: Principles and Dynamics of Matching Role to Situation,
Douglas Champion David Kiel and Jean McLendon

5. Thematic and Change Expertise

The Balanced Practitioner
Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo

6. Ownership, Authority and Conflict

Who is the Boss? Behavioural Guidance for the Practitioner in Complex Capacity-Development Settings
Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo and Joe McMahon

7. Whose Values Count?

Voice, Values and Exclusion in Capacity-Development Processes: Experiences from India
Rajesh Tandon

8. Organization Development as a Source

Riding the Pendulum between ‘Clocks’ and ‘Clouds’: The History of OD and Its Relation to CD
Ingrid Richter

9. ‘Reading’ Situations

Looking to See the Whole
Catherine Collingwood

10. Dialogue

The Place of Dialogue in Capacity Development
Marianne Bojer

Part III Working with Connections

11. Institutions, Power and Politics

Looking for Change Beyond the Boundaries, the Formal and the Functional
Niels Boesen

12. Public Accountability

Capacity is Political, Not Technical: The Case of HakiElimu in Promoting Accountability in Education in Tanzania
Rakesh Rajani

13. The Micro–Macro Gap

Bridging the Micro–Macro Gap: Gaining Capacity by Connecting Levels of Development Action'
Jan Ubels, Rinus van Klinken and Hendrik Visser

14. Working with Value Chains

Using Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Capacity Development in an Agricultural Value Chain in Uganda
Duncan Mwesige

15. Engaging with Community-based Organizations

Lessons from Below: Capacity Development and Communities
Schirin Yachkaschi

16. Leadership Development

Leadership, the Hidden Factor in Capacity Development: A West African Experience
Brigitte Dia and Jan Willem Eggink

17. Knowledge Networking

Learning Together: Knowledge Networks in Capacity Development Initiatives
Geoff Parcell


Part IV Improving on Results


18. Measuring Capacity Development

Combining the ‘Best of Two Worlds’ in Monitoring and Evaluation of Capacity Development
David Watson

19. Time Matters

Effective Capacity Development: The Importance of Connecting Time Frames
Heinz Greijn and Alan Fowler

20. Self-Reflection

Monitoring and Evaluation for Personal Learning
Bruce Britton

21. Accountability and Learning

Exploding the Myth of Incompatibility between Accountability and Learning
Irene Guijt 


Part V Looking Ahead


22. Taking Stock

Learning about the Field of Capacity Development: Characteristics, Practitioner Challenges and Future Perspectives
Jan Ubels, Alan Fowler and Naa-Aku Acquaye Baddoo

23. A Capacity Development Market?

Stimulating the Provision of Local Capacity Development Support
Jan Ubels

24. Becoming Professional

A Professional Field in Formation?
Naa-Aku Acquaye Baddoo, Jan Ubels and Alan Fowler


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Year: 
2010
Author: 
Jan Ubels, Naa-aku Acquaye Baddoo and Alan Fowler
Publisher: 
Earthscan
Pages: 
338
Document language: 
English
Type: 
Book
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