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Follow UsDFID Research Strategy 2008-2013 – Working Paper Series: Capacity Building
This Working Paper on Capacity Building is one of a series of 10 papers published alongside DFID's Research Strategy 2008-2013.
It presents the case for DFID-funded research on Capacity Building - drawing on the responses given during a global consultation that DFID convened in 2007 about its future research.
The concept of capacity building has received a great deal of attention over the last few years. Some of the work has focused on definitions; other studies have tried to map different interventions; and some have explored different approaches and their achievements.
Capacity building is a complex notion - it involves individual and organisational learning which builds social capital and trust, develops knowledge, skills and attitudes and when successful creates an organisational culture which enables organisations to set objectives, achieve results, solve problems and create adaptive procedures which enable it to survive in the long term.
DFID defines research capacity as "the ability of individuals, organisations and systems to undertake and disseminate high quality research effectively and efficiently". There is, in addition to the three levels in the definition, the 'institutional' context in which capacity building takes place. This covers the incentives, the economic, political and regulatory context and the resource base on which the context is built.
