Capacity Development

Step 1: Engage

Working in 166 countries, UNDP is responding to the growing demand for capacity development support by helping governments, civil society and other partners to develop the policies, procedures, skills and knowledge they need to improve people’s lives. Once support is requested, the first step in the five-step capacity development process is to identify and engage the relevant stakeholders on the capacity development agenda – that could include the executive, sub-national governments, single ministries, line departments, independent commissions or members of civil society. Engaging national stakeholders is important to ensure political commitment to the capacity development agenda and to embed it into the nation’s development priorities.