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Conceptualising 'capacity development' in development policy : a case study of the DRC-UNICEF 'Village Assaini' programme in Kongo Central, DRC
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Abstract
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| Despite some significant achievements in international development cooperation, effective and sustainable capacity development1 has remained an elusive goal (Fukuda-Parr et al, 2002). In 1993, in a pioneering role, the UNDP initiated an evaluation2 of technical cooperation, with the main aim of assessing why technical cooperation sometimes succeeds and sometimes — or too often — does not. This process led the UN agency to rethink, inter alia, the concept of ‘capacity building’ in development policy. Almost ten years later, a similar exercise was undertaken by the Human Development Directorate and the Development Policy Bureau at UNDP headquarters, with the support of practitioners of technical cooperation.3 Within these years of historic change, marked by the end of the Cold War and the onset of globalisation, new challenges have emerged; and yet, the challenges of capacity development to address development issues in developing countries have persisted. The question was then, how to promote a new paradigm of capacity development to make developing countries meet the expectations of their development. We would like to take the challenge by bringing the question to the development practice level, where we can analyse the issue of capacity development from, particularly, the perspective of development ‘recipients.’ Thus, this study aims to explore the pivotal role of capacity development in promoting sustainable development through the rights-based approach to development in the context of the DRC-UNICEF ‘Village Assaini’ (sanitised village) Programme,4 in the Kongo Central Province of the DRC. |
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English
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Antwerp
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University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science
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2020
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250 p.
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Note
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Verschraegen, Gert [Supervisor]
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De Feyter, Koen [Supervisor]
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Full text (open access)
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