Building State Capacity

Capacity building enables an organisation to adapt to changing needs and requirements which will include the following:  Individual and human resource development (right staff, right numbers) Organisational development (is the structure right for the strategy?) The institutional and legal framework development (processes, systems, performance, primary and secondary legal frameworks). These challenges to contemporary state building will be assessed in, among other contexts, immediate post-conflict (‘stabilisation interventions’, post-conflict (legacy), post-authoritarian, and economically and politically transitioning societies.  The course will provide you with a theoretical and practical understanding of the challenges in building state capacity. It will link theory and concepts with policy and practice on state and institution building and then expose the challenges associated with capacity building. The course will provide you with the essential tools that enable situation analysis, skills and knowledge transfer especially appropriate to a fragile and conflict affected situation.