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Critical Capacity Development

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  • © 2017

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  • Fills a gap, articulating a coherent conceptual framework for capacity development and clarifying the disparate ways that the concept has been understood and applied

  • Draws on three case studies and empirical examples from both developed and developing countries

  • Critically examines capacity development and its implementation, identifying challenges

  • Makes concrete policy recommendations to achieve desired outcomes

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About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bradford, Peace Studies and International Development, Bradford, United Kingdom

    Farhad Analoui, Joseph Kwadwo Danquah

About the authors

Farhad Analoui is Professor International Development and HRM, International consultant, and Programme Director at the Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK.


Joseph Kwadwo Danquah is Doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK.


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