Building Capacities In The Developing World

Author : Elie Chrysostome
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030167400

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Capacity Building in Developing and Emerging Countries by Elie Chrysostome Pdf

This book explores new perspectives on how to improve the chances of success regarding capacity building in developing and emerging countries. Drawing on lessons learned in the course of six decades of capacity building research and practice, it identifies the required conditions for the success of capacity building efforts, and suggests that a radical change in mindset has become a critical aspect in developing countries. In addition, the book discusses capacity building in connection with entrepreneurship (especially female entrepreneurship), transnational diaspora remittances, and combating corruption, which it considers to be essential drivers of sustainable development in developing and emerging countries. The book’s contributing authors represent the leading minds in capacity building research and practice, and include researchers from prestigious universities in North America, Europe and Africa, as well as international development experts from institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, African Development Bank, and African Capacity Building Foundation. All authors have considerable expertise regarding capacity building issues, and represent 26 emerging and developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Caribbean Islands, North America and Europe.

Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Carlos Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136570513

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Capacity for Development by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Carlos Lopes Pdf

'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book [presents] a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing, for which the revolution in information and communications technologies offers ample opportunities... a vision that is firmly founded on genuine ownership by the ultimate beneficiaries of development efforts: the government and citizens of developing countries' From the Foreword by MARK MALLOCH BROWN, Administrator, UNDP Capacity for Development brings together innovative and well-supported studies of technical cooperation along with its potential to build sustainable capacities in developing countries, by enhancing the knowledge, skills and productive aptitudes of their populations. A team of eminent development professionals and economists examine the achievements of technical cooperation and offer recommendations for reform in the context of globalization, democratisation, the information revolution and the growth of capacities in the South. They analyse the issues from three perspectives: ownership, capacity enablers and knowledge. The team show how the complex processes involved can be restructured to produce local involvement and empowerment, set out a normative framework for the input from society, and describe a new paradigm of knowledge for capacity building in the network age. This book will be essential reading for all development professionals and policy-makers, as well as providing an invaluable research and teaching resource.

Author : Deborah Eade
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0855983663

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Capacity-building by Deborah Eade Pdf

This book considers specific and practical ways in which NGO's can contribute to enabling people to build on the capacities they already possess. It reviews the types of social organisation with which NGO's might consider working and the provision of training in a variety of relevant skills and activities.

Author : Douglas Horton
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552501115

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Evaluating Capacity Development by Douglas Horton Pdf

The perspective that informs this important book is that every evaluation of a capacity development effort should itself contribute to the capacity development effort and ultimately to the organization’s performance. This is a revolutionary idea in evaluation. With the idea have come the questions: Can it be done? And, if it is done, what will be the consequences? This book elucidates and deepens the idea, shows it can be done, and examines the consequences, both intended and unintended, of engaging in capacity development evaluation

Author : Kenneth King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Absorptive capacity (Economics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082114948

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Building Capacities in the Developing World by Kenneth King Pdf

Author : Valentine U. James
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781567508048

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Capacity Building in Developing Countries by Valentine U. James Pdf

The term capacity building refers to enabling the indigenous people of developing countries to carry out development processes successfully by empowering them through strengthened domestic institutions, provision of domestic markets, and improvement of local government efforts to sustain infrastructures, social institutions, and commercial institutions. Capacity building also involves the need to recognize indigenous interest groups, encourage local efforts, provide incentives for privatization, and coordinate local, regional, and international strategies to enhance productivity and wise use of natural and human resources. Most important, capacity building encourages a bottom-up or grassroots effort for sustainable development. The grassroots effort begins with the family unit. Capacity building addresses all areas of social, economic and health, and environmental processes through a holistic approach. The chapters of this book, written by experts in their fields, address these three areas of the developing societies.

Author : Shahid M. Shahidullah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429714405

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Capacity-building In Science And Technology In The Third World by Shahid M. Shahidullah Pdf

Traditional strategies of technical assistance, technology transfer, appropriate technology, and self-reliance for science and technology development in the Third World, cannot be successfully implemented until Third World countries improve their fundamental organization of science and technology. In order to make those improvements - a process kno

Author : Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821373811

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Science, Technology, and Innovation by Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst Pdf

This book summarizes, and highlights main messages from, a February 2007 Global Forum convened by the World Bank to discuss strategies, programs, and policies for building science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity to promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.

Author : F. Desmond McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290703800

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Creating Partnerships for Capacity Building in Developing Countries by F. Desmond McCarthy Pdf

McCarthy, Bader, and Pleskovic discuss a variety of experiences in a number of transition and developing countries to build institutional capacity for economics education. A flexible approach met with some success. The approach uses partnerships that combine the often different needs of a number of private donors with the World Bank on the supply side. Much of the success was due to adopting each effort to the individual country situation. The authors also provide a brief summary of five academic institutions and four research networks in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.This paper - a product of Partnerships, Capacity Building, and Outreach, Development Economics - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to build capacity for economic education.

Author : Majeed Mohammed,Vijay Yadav Tokala
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351631617

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Postharvest Extension and Capacity Building for the Developing World by Majeed Mohammed,Vijay Yadav Tokala Pdf

It is estimated that around 1.3 billion tons per year of food produced for human consumption, which is about one-third of all food produced, is either lost or wasted globally. Reduction of the postharvest losses is being considered as one of the sustainable ways to ensure world food security. Postharvest Extension and Capacity Building for the Developing World provides information on postharvest extension/outreach programs, capacity building, and practical methodologies for postharvest extension professionals and food science teachers, food processing trainers, and outreach specialists who work in the field. The book provides information on training of postharvest trainers, food loss assessment methods, capacity building in universities and agro-industry, distance education methods, models for cost effective postharvest/food processing extension work, success stories, and lessons learned from past projects and programs. The book is divided into four sections. Section I explains postharvest loss assessments methods, Section II is on capacity building, and Sections III and IV focus on training and postharvest extension models. Food loss assessment methodologies are highlighted from several high-profile institutions and it is envisioned that researchers and postharvest extension personnel will benefit from the development and field testing of a hybrid methodology, incorporating the strengths and utilizing the best practices from each of the methodologies in current use. Chapters cover postharvest extension work and capacity building in a wide range of regions.

Author : Farhad Analoui,Joseph Kwadwo Danquah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319474168

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Critical Capacity Development by Farhad Analoui,Joseph Kwadwo Danquah Pdf

This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: ‘capacity development’ in the context of human and organisational sustainable development. Relating ‘capacity development’ to other perspectives in development thinking and practice and giving an account of the concept’s genesis, the book introduces readers to recent empirical research initiatives that help to elucidate the concepts of capacity, capacity development, and capacity management. While capacity development initiatives and programmes have been used by most international and national agencies over the course of the last five decades, the term means different things to different people and especially to different major players in the international community. This weakens its effectiveness. This book therefore strives first of all to set ground rules that can be utilised by international aid providers such as UNDP, OECD, World Bank, and CIDA and practitioners alike.

Author : François Bourguignon,Yehuda Elkana,Boris Pleskovic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821365960

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Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research by François Bourguignon,Yehuda Elkana,Boris Pleskovic Pdf

This book presents papers from the conference on "Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research," which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus. It includes contributions from key researchers, academics and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries that identify and brainstorm on capacity building challenges.

Author : Thomas Theisohn,Carlos Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134031108

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Ownership Leadership and Transformation by Thomas Theisohn,Carlos Lopes Pdf

The third and final in a series, this text bridges the conceptual foundations of capacity development and the difficulties and practical realities in the field. It demystifies the process of capacity development to make it more user-friendly. The book has two parts. The first shows how long-standing development dilemmas can be turned into opportunities for capacity development and societal transformation. It proposes a set of principles to guide the search for context-specific approaches as the norm, and based on these default principles the authors explore relevant issues in comprehensible stages through a capacity lens. The second part is a compilation of experiences and lessons from around the world, to showcase promising initiatives and innovative solutions. It forms a casebook of insights and good (rather than best) practices on how development stakeholders can turn development dilemmas into opportunities tailored to the needs of their societies.

Author : Deborah Brautigam,Odd-Helge Fjeldstad,Mick Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139469258

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Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries by Deborah Brautigam,Odd-Helge Fjeldstad,Mick Moore Pdf

There is a widespread concern that, in some parts of the world, governments are unable to exercise effective authority. When governments fail, more sinister forces thrive: warlords, arms smugglers, narcotics enterprises, kidnap gangs, terrorist networks, armed militias. Why do governments fail? This book explores an old idea that has returned to prominence: that authority, effectiveness, accountability and responsiveness is closely related to the ways in which governments are financed. It matters that governments tax their citizens rather than live from oil revenues and foreign aid, and it matters how they tax them. Taxation stimulates demands for representation, and an effective revenue authority is the central pillar of state capacity. Using case studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, this book presents and evaluates these arguments, updates theories derived from European history in the light of conditions in contemporary poorer countries, and draws conclusions for policy-makers.

Author : F. Desmond McCarthy,William Bader,Boris Pleskovic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Creating Partnerships for Capacity Building in Developing Countries by F. Desmond McCarthy,William Bader,Boris Pleskovic Pdf

McCarthy, Bader, and Pleskovic discuss a variety of experiences in a number of transition and developing countries to build institutional capacity for economics education. A flexible approach met with some success. The approach uses partnerships that combine the often different needs of a number of private donors with the World Bank on the supply side. Much of the success was due to adopting each effort to the individual country situation. The authors also provide a brief summary of five academic institutions and four research networks in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This paper--a product of Partnerships, Capacity Building, and Outreach, Development Economics--is part of a larger effort in the Bank to build capacity for economic education.