Capacity Development

Country Support

UNDP supports capacity development initiatives of national governments, civil society organizations, independent national and regional institutions and other stakeholders through advocacy, policy advisory and implementation services.

The following is an indicative list of services that UNDP offers to countries; for a more detailed listing of UNDP capacity development services, please see: Supporting Capacity Development: the UNDP Approach.

UNDP provides support to countries for:

• Engaging with stakeholders in a capacity development process;
• Integrating capacity development into national development frameworks;
• Designing and implementing capacity assessments through the application and adaptation of the UNDP capacity assessment methodology and supporting tools or other assessment frameworks;
• Analysing findings and formulating capacity development responses;
• Growing and deploying a pool of national and regional capacity development experts, to provide sustained support in the design and application of capacity assessments and capacity development responses;
• Measuring change in capacity through provision of evaluation methodology and indicators for capacity development responses in different sectors and contexts.

UNDP provides support to countries in Africa, in Arab States, in Asia and the Pacific, in Europe and the CIS and in Latin America and the Caribbean through its network of Regional Centers, Sub-Regional Facilities (SURF) and Country Offices.