Capacity Development

image

Realizing Africa's Wealth: Building Inclusive Businesses for Shared Prosperity

This report, prepared by UNDP's African Facility for Inclusive Markets, describes the status of inclusive business in sub-Saharan Africa and the ecosystems underlying the enterprises and entrepreneurs driving such approaches. It identifies promising opportunities in strengthening these ecosystems, more

image

Role of Aid Management Systems

This paper describes how aid information management systems support all aspects of implementing the Paris Declaration and good practice in selecting and implementing such systems, based on several years’ experience in a variety of country situations. more

image

SADC Regional Development Report 2000

The Regional Human Development Reports serve as an advocacy tool to advance the development of a common approach to the national and regional dimensions of governance in the SADC Bloc. This report examines the state of human development in the SADC region and highlights common governance issues, as more

image

Starting a Pro-Poor Public- Private Partnership for a Basic Urban Service

The Guideline provides steps to make sure the main features of an effective pro-poor PPP are built in from the start. Do’s and Don’ts are raised from the experience of what works well and what does not. Examples and cases of pro-poor PPPs in practice are also given. Examples are provided of PPP more

image

Support Capacity Development: The UNDP Approach

This resource articulates a series of UNDP policy statements and services in support of capacity development efforts at global, regional and country levels. The statements of policy and the provision of these services are supported by research and analysis of capacity development theory, data more

image

Supporting Transformational Change

The purpose of this report is to reflect on UNDP’s experience of development cooperation over the past 50 years, and to extract some common themes and general lessons about development cooperation for the future. The report makes the case that development is a long-term proposition and is seldom more

image

The Role of UNDP in the Changing Aid Environment at the Country level

At its June 2008 session, the Executive Board “endorse[d], in principle, a four-year pilot period, starting in September 2008, for enabling UNDP financial contributions to pooled funding and sector budget support, on a case-by-case basis, upon the request of the recipient country and in more

image

The Story of an Institution, Series 1, January 2010 [NEW VERSION]

This series aims to capture the national and local institutional transformations, led and driven by the institutions themselves, many of which UNDP has supported over the years at the country level. more

image

Triangulating Success: Building Post-Crisis Capacity in the Solomon Islands

This note pulls together observations from a review of four projects in the Solomon Islands that have been referred to as “successful capacity building” or “successful approaches to capacity building”. more

image

Triple Wins for Sustainable Development

  As countries prepare for the ‘Rio+20’ United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, UNDP is pleased to share this report. It sets out national examples of progress toward sustainable development, from developing countries like Nepal and Niger, as well as emerging economies like South more

Fast Facts
thumbnail
Capacity Development

The task of cutting world poverty in half is not happening fast enough. As the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the delivery of poverty reduction plans has stalled in too many countries, often due to limited capacity to address poverty effectively.

download the document
Our work on Capacity Development
View More
Capacity Development: A UNDP Primer
thumbnail

This primer provides a simple, cogent and accessible illustration of the UNDP Capacity Development Approach for the benefit of development practitioners both within and beyond the UN development system.

download the document
Measuring Capacity
thumbnail

This paper presents a framework for better defining, capturing and communicating capacity development results. The framework begins with the end in mind – national development goals.

dowload the document
UNDP's Annual Report
UNDP
The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

View all Annual Reports
Knowledge Exchange
thumbnail

Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

Custom Queries

Explore UNDP's extensive research and publications library through this advanced search


SEARCH