Capacity Building

This report explores four key strategies companies can use to expand economic opportunity: 1) creating inclusive business models; 2) developing human capital; 3) building institutional capacity; and 4) helping to optimize the "Rules of the Game."

The Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca was convened to address and resolve conflicts between Yanacocha, the largest gold mine in Peru, and the surrounding communities affected by its operations. The Mesa sought consensus based solutions under a framework of good faith, cooperation, and tolerance.

These were materials used during a workshop which had the objective to build capacity for participants to identify the adverse local environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining projects and understand the management and technical options for their mitigation and monitoring.

In Azerbaijan, BP and the Open Society Institute-Assistance Foundation are working together to support national NGOs’ capacity development through facilitated monitoring and audit of the Baku-Ceyhan-Tbilisi and the South Caucasus Pipeline projects.

This publication, produced jointly with the United Nations Environment Programme, aims to demonstrate through actual experiences, the contribution of international and national petroleum industry partnerships in economic development and environmental protection through technology cooperation and capacity building.

Although the question of capacity enhancement has received extensive attention in the development literature and the topic has been approached from different analytic perspectives, little agreement exists about how to define, operationalize, and measure capacity and capacity enhancement. This paper is an attempt to synthesize the literature to draw some conclusions about the measurement of capacity enhancement.

This note discusses the interface between community driven development (CDD) and decentralization.

Achieving rapid development calls for improved capacity in the public and private sectors to support development policies and projects. The World Bank recognizes that capacity building is a long-term process requiring a systemic approach. That is why many Bank projects in Africa and elsewhere include capacity development activities. But three drawbacks have limited the effectiveness of these efforts: Capacity goals as they relate to this understanding of the individual, organizational, and institutional aspects have not been explicit. This Capacity Brief discusses and illustrates the importance of integrating capacity-building efforts at all three levels, addressing differences among sectors in their integration, while setting forth explicit capacity goals and monitoring and evaluating progress toward them.