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Capacity Development
UNDP is working in 166 countries to help develop the capacities required to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Capacity is the ability of individuals, institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and achieve objectives in a sustainable manner. Capacity Development (CD) is thereby the process through which individuals, organisations and societies obtain, strengthen and maintain the capabilities to set and achieve their own development objectives over time.
UNDP and Capacity Development Strategies
Over the years, the following capacity development strategies have emerged as good practice for UNDP based on learning from applications. These strategies may be applied to address capacity development needs in a variety of sectors that speak to integrated approaches to development. Selection of capacity development strategies should be predicated upon findings from a capacity assessment exercise:
 Capacity Assessments
- Capacity Assessment Supporting Tool
- Capacity Assessment Methodology User’s Guide
Education, Training and Learning
Leadership Capacities
Institutional Reform and Incentives
- Institutional Reform and Change Management
- Incentive Systems
Accountability and Voice Mechanisms
- Mutual Accountability Mechanisms
- Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Processes
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UNDP Practice Note on Suppoting Capacities for Integrated Local Development
This Practice Note provides UNDP staff and other development practitioners with a concise overview of the capacity challenges involved in local development as well as an easily adaptable five-step approach to address them. The note is not meant to be a comprehensive toolkit or guide but rather a review of different approaches to local development from a capacity development perspective based on best practices and lessons learned. The process of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) localisation, which is increasingly used to frame local development is discussed.
Supporting Capacity Development: The UNDP Approach This resource articulates a series of policy statements and services which UNDP emphasises in its support to capacity development efforts at global, regional and country levels. The statements of policy and the provision of these services are supported by research and analysis of capacity development theory, data sources, methodologies and applications across the various capacity development response strategies. They must be continuously validated through evaluative evidence and lessons learned through countrydriven efforts, and the support provided to them through UNDP, UN agency and international partner initiatives. For more resources, click here to CD Library...
CD Programmes:
- Capacity 2015 builds on the success of Capacity 21. It is a broad based partnership initiative focused on developing the local capacities to build the MDGS
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- Capacity Development Policy & Practice builds upon the work of the Reforming Technical Cooperation initiative as well as the UNDP GEF Capacity Development Initiative. It includes applied policy research, mainstreaming CD across UNDP practice areas as well as the adaptation and designs of a range of CD resources and tools to suppport field based implementation
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- Aid Effectiveness: national capacity contraints can be major obstacles to attain MDGs. To attain these goals, the amount of aid and other development resources must be increased in which donor and partner countries now work within a common framework for defining and measuring aid effectiveness.
- Public Private Partnerships include a wide range of development stakeholders. Through the Public Private Partnership for Local Service Delivery (PPP-SD) programme and other efforts we are brokering a wide range of partnerships
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- Harmonization and Capacity: the Capacity Development Group works with the OECD/DAC, UNDG and UNDP to integrate the commitments on harmonization expressed in the Rome Declaration and the Secretary Generals reform agenda...
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UNDP and its partners also operate a wide range networks devoted to Capacity Development. Follow the links here to visit these networks and find out more. | Capacity Development: Resources And Tools
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