Capacity Building

Capacity Building

The strengthening of skills, competencies and abilities of a country, which includes improving its institutional, resource, human, scientific, organizational, and technological capabilities. The goal of capacity building is to tackle problems related to policy and methods of development, at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. Capacity building requires sensitivity to potential limitations and the needs of a country and its people. The term capacity building can also encompass the strategic development of cultural skills in a country.