Consultations in Results-Focused Capacity Development : Reviews of Project Experiences in East Africa Using the Capacity Development and Results Framework
Capacity is often seen to be the principal constraint to development, and each year aid donors spend more than $30 billion globally to address this issue. However, most capacity development efforts fail to yield satisfactory results. Important defi...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/11/25236342/consultations-results-focused-capacity-development-reviews-project-experiences-east-africa-using-capacity-development-results-framework http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23033 |
| Summary: | Capacity is often seen to be the
principal constraint to development, and each year aid
donors spend more than $30 billion globally to address this
issue. However, most capacity development efforts fail to
yield satisfactory results. Important deficiencies include
low stakeholder commitment to development goals; weak
understanding of institutional capacities and how they need
to change to support these goals; lack of strategy around
what results to support and how; poor planning of activities
to support local agents in driving change; inadequate
attention to needed adjustments of change processes; and not
learning from previous successes and mistakes. These
deficiencies necessitate fundamental changes in how capacity
development is defined and practiced. Capacity development
means enhancing the ability of local leaders, groups and
coalitions to effect institutional change. It entails
understanding both the demand and supply sides of the
development process. WBI worked with local partners to
review and document the projects. Through the participatory
reviews, WBI learned how to better work with local partners
in supporting efforts to apply results-focused approaches.
The local partners learned how the application of
results-focused tools, locally adapted to their context,
could help a project achieve the most needed results.
Development practitioners and local partners can apply the
lessons learned from these reviews to help improve the
design and implementation of their own capacity development programs. |
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