Course: Developing Country Capacity

This course aims to guide actors in member countries in effectively enhancing country capacity and to ensure that programmes and projects lead to truly effective and sustainable change. It consolidates existing knowledge, tools and lessons learned from FAO’s work.

The course is designed for country actors who prepare, implement, manage and evaluate capacity development interventions, particularly those who are involved in change processes in organizations. Country actors include state and non-state actors such as line ministries, academic & research institutions, training institutions, cooperatives, community-based and civil society organisations.

The course consists of 7 lessons and has a duration of 2 hours:

Unit 1 About capacity development
•Lesson 1.1 Why capacity development?
•Lesson 1.2 A country’s responsibility

Unit 2 Making it happen
•Lesson 2.1 Capacity development process
•Lesson 2.2 Capacity Assessment
•Lesson 2.3 Developing individual capacities
•Lesson 2.4 Improving organizational performance
•Lesson 2.5 Bringing it all together