UNDP works with national and local governments and citizens to develop capacities that support national priorities, with a strategic and country-led approach to ensure sustainability.
For sustainable human development to occur, a country must lead its own development process and use its own institutions to plan, deliver and evaluate results.
UNDP supports the country led articulation of priorities and needs and helps to strengthen local abilities to deliver results tailored to the particular situation at hand.
The capacity development approach stresses the use of existing capacity assets within a country, and developing national institutions rather than bypassing them or substituting them with external expertise. The capacity development approach looks at developing the institutions and the systems that people work in, as opposed to only training individuals.
We know that institutions are complex – comprised of policies, legislation, processes and procedures, different departments and structures, people and are influenced by politics and other power dynamics.
Investing in capable institutions is a pre-requisite to longer term sustainable growth, equity and peace.
Support to strengthening national capacities calls for a systematic and rigorous approach to understanding what works to ensure institutions to deliver better on their mandates, for the benefit of the people they serve.
UNDP has a process of engaging stakeholders around the local contextual factors that impact capacity development, methodologies that facilitate the diagnosis of capacity assets and needs, and capacity development responses borne from country based evidence, learning and experience. >> More
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