Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems
'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book [presents] a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing, for which the revolution in information and...
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Leading experts consider how development programs can increase the levels of knowledge, skill, technical know-how and productive capacity of populations in the South. The volume is organized into three parts on ownership, institutional capital and knowledge networks. They explore the participatory empowerment that builds capacity, a framework enabling social forces to contribute, and a new paradigm of knowledge in the network age. The result shows how, in future productivity, capacity development through technical cooperation can be successfully pursued.Contributors include Sunil Chako, Steve Denning, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Ruth Hill, Sanjay Lall, Carlos Lopes, Khalid Malik, Thandika Mkandawire, Raj Panday, and Joseph Stiglitz. Mark Malloch Brown Presents a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing... firmly founded on genuine ownership by the ultimate beneficiaries of development efforts.
ForewordEditors' acknowledgementsOverview: Institutional innovations for capacity development1Pt. 1Capacity and developmentTowards a normative framework: Technical cooperation, capacities and development23Autonomy-respecting assistance: Towards new strategies for capacity-building and development assistance43Technical cooperation and institutional capacity-building for development: Back to the basics61Civic engagement and development: introducing the issues85Social capital and industrial transformation101Pt. 2OwnershipShould we mind the gap?121Incentives, governance and capacity development in Africa147Power, networks and ideology in the field of development169Pt. 3Knowledge: "Scan globally, reinvent locally" Joseph E. StiglitzThe network age: Creating new models of technical cooperation185Integrating local and global knowledge, technology and production systems: Challenges for technical cooperation203Technical cooperation and knowledge networks229Developments in private sector knowledge-based entrepreneurship in the south247Knowledge of technology and the technology of knowledge: New strategies for development271about the authors281
\ Klaas M LeisengerEssential reading for both public officials and private corporations.\ \ \ \ \ Mark Malloch BrownPresents a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing... firmly founded on genuine ownership by the ultimate beneficiaries of development efforts.\ \
