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Technical and financial inputs are often critical for improving project performance, this assistance alone is not sufficient to help groups manage and monitor their growth, define their vision and design effective strategies to adapt to a dynamic environment. Capacity building is a key strategy to improve an organization’s effectiveness and sustainability in relation to its mission and context and has moved center stage of agendas of development organizations. It involves both institutional capacity building, as well as human capacity building. Substantial sums are being invested in capacity-building programs.
Specifically, capacity building encompasses the country’s human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional and resource capabilities. A fundamental goal of capacity building is to enhance the ability to evaluate and address the crucial questions related to policy choices and modes of implementation among development options, based on an understanding of environment potentials and limits and of needs perceived by the people of the country concerned. Capacity Building is a process that enhances the performance.
Capacity is by far the most important determinant in the success of the Country’s response against developmental issues. This is true for any Development Programme. The main objective of any development programme is to develop the capacities at the local level to cope with the situation and take action accordingly.
Hence, for a sustainable response to the epidemic the development, the capacities need to be lodged within the community. This has to be in the form of individuals and institutions. The individuals would form the much-needed Technical Pool of Resource People and consultants to drive the response and the Institutions would serve as the Reserve House of Technical Resources and knowledge with the basic aim of developing further cadre of trained individuals and enriching the existing pool as a continuous process.
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