AFRO-NETS> Capacity Building - two overviews

[Anneli Milèn <annelimilen@hotmail.com>]

Capacity Building - two overviews
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TWO NEW OVERVIEWS

What everyone involved in development cooperation - an expatriate or 
a national - should know about capacity building; and what about ca-
pacity building of senior policy-makers in health systems.

How to build capacity of yourself, your team, your institution, your 
system, your society? How to support capacity building in other coun-
tries for sustainable development?

Critics claim that most of the international development collabora-
tion has failed due to inadequate attention to national capacity 
building. Wrong approach and wrong methods!

This and some other developments in the world led to serious recon-
sideration of capacity building. Answers to questions like capacity 
for what, whose capacity, why and how, are being sought in all sec-
tors of society.

Two recent overviews were placed on the AFRO-NETS server for 
downloading:

1. "What do we know about capacity building?" gives an overview of 
existing knowledge and practice in capacity building. Not only in the 
health sector but in general, based on experiences and lessons 
learned in various sectors.

2. Also the other article "Strengthening capacities in policy devel-
opment and strategic management in health systems" is a background 
paper for a joint planning process by WHO and countries in this 
field. It studies lessons from the past. It illustrates different 
perspectives on policy-making and examines the key but changing role 
of government. The main roles and functions of government in health 
systems are reviewed and capacities to fulfil them are briefly ad-
dressed.

(These two documents are not formal WHO publications.)

Enjoyable reading!

Anneli Milèn
Advisor
HFS, WHO, Geneva
mailto:milena@who.int

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