Waking up to capacity development

This blog has been dormant for some time, but the subject keeps its importance.
Whether it is called "capacity building" or "capacity development" is not the issue.  Keeping focus on the need for capacity and doing something about it is essential.
At  World Urban Forum in Naples a number of sessions focused on the issue and many more highlighted its importance.  For example, the Asian Coalition for Human Rights which has been working at the slum level in Bangkok and other cities highlighted the need for capacity at city level to be able to interface in a creative way with slum communities and help take project innovations to scale.
For more comments on WUF and capacity development, you can also look at http://forbesdavidsonplanning.com/
We are having renewed discussions on lessons from experiences of capacity building.   If you have any experiences to share, they would be very welcome.

MAPP, programme AP India as case

Banashree Banerjee writes:

The Municipal Action Plan for Poverty Reduction (MAPP) being used on DFID projects in India is an excellent on the job cap-build tool for local govt, civil society and for throwing up demand based training requirements. Also prompts policy and legislative action at higher levels.

APUSP Project Coordinator Mr Janardhan Reddy has been asked to send the case.

Links www.apusp.org
janardhana_b2001@yahoo.co.in.

Have also asked RADOL Bangladesh to contribute

Useful links

For more information on the partners cooperating in the capacity building event at WUF in Vancouver, you can check the following web sites:

WUF, Vancouver

http://www.wuf3-fum3.ca/

Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies

http://www.ihs.nl/start.htm

Capacity Building for Better Cities report

This report outlines the strategy developed at Habitat II in Istanbul

http://www.ihs.nl/downloads/IHS%20publications/staff/F_Davidson/

Capacity Building Initiatives in the SINPA programme

This site provides a lot of information developed in the Support to the implementation of national plans of action, SINPA, which tried to put into practice strategies developed in Istanbul in 1996. The programme includes materials in English and Spanish and features programmes in Bangladesh, Bolivia and Zambia

http://www.ihs.nl/sinpa/

Development Planning Unit, UCLhttp://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/

Housing Development Management, Lund, Sweden

http://www.hdm.lth.se/

Training and capacity building branch, UN Habitat

http://hq.unhabitat.org/programmes/tcbb/

Promesha case

Download Promesha Case