Capacity Development

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Capacity development as a concept, centers around an inherent ability to pursue a nation's development goals with some external support and a focus on three dimensions;

human capacity
organizational capacity
broader institutional capacity.

Capacity development differentiates itself from the concept of capacity building in the sense that capacity development is the broader processes of receiving assistance in the form of capacity building interventions.

In practice capacity development focus' mainly on capacities of institutions or sectors. Interventions are ideally based on individual capacity development strategies predicated upon findings of capacity gaps derived from a capacity assessment exercise. These capacity gap can related to ability to deliver on goals/mission or as the UN System Staff College reflects in it's training material gaps may refer specifically to gaps of claim holders to claim their rights and duty bearers to meet their duties.