Capacity building

Definition of Capacity Building: Specifically, capacity building encompasses the country’s human, scientific, technological, organizational, institutional and resource capabilities. A fundamental goal of capacity building is to enhance the ability to evaluate and address the crucial questions related to policy choices and modes of implementation among development options, based on an understanding of environment potentials and limits and of needs perceived by the people of the country concerned. This is the common definition for Capacity Building, other definitions can be discussed in the article

Capacity Building - Agenda 21’s definition (Chapter 37, UNCED, 1992.)