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The emergence of the concept of capacity development in the development cooperation is a result of the lack of tangible outcomes produced by pursuing different concepts. Capacity development has been adapted by the UNDP and the World Bank, but each concept consists of different processes and strategies. The UNDP focusses on the three factors, namely individual, organization and society, while the World Bank targets development goals, institutional capacity, change agents’ capacity outcome and capacity interventions. More generally, capacity development objectives focus on enhancement, its primary principles being participation and long-term investment, and with derived implication of sustainability and implementation strategies.
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Analoui, F., Danquah, J.K. (2017). Capacity Development: The World Bank and UNDP Perceptive. In: Critical Capacity Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47416-8_4
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