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Capacity & Capacity-Building - Introduction
This page introduces the topics covered in this sub-section of wiki-summaries on Capacity & Capacity-Building. These topics have been identified and are being developed through the previous and current activities of the International Discussion Group on Capacity & Capacity Building.

Click on any of the items listed in the navigation bar on the right hand side of this page to access the various summaries. The wiki-summaries will eventually include Glossary Terms (1-3 paragraphs), Encyclopedia Entries (Two pages), Handbook Sections (Book Chapters) and Bibliographies/Toolboxes (Extensive lists updated periodically) as well as Additional Resources.  

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Key Messages/Lessons Learned:

Here are some of the key messages or things that we have learned thus far in these discussions: 
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(The number of summaries completed or drafted in this section are listed below.
- Overview
- Key Definitions/Elements
  • Different Types of Capacities
  • Capacity-Building
- Key Concepts/Insights
  • A Never-ending Challenge and Multiple Tasks
- How to Implement, Maintain, Scale Up, Sustain, Build Capacity,
- Organizational or system capacities
   - Baseline Capacities
  • Core staffing: defining & monitoring
  • Core Funding
  • Core Time Allocated in Curriculum & Extended Education Activities
  • Core Responses/Waiting for Services
    - Operational Capacities
  • Coordinated Policy & Leadership
  • Assigned Coordinators/Not Focal Points
  • Informal & Formal Mechanisms for Cooperation and Coordination
  • Ongoing Workforce Development
  • Ongoing Knowledge Exchange & Development
  • Regular Monitoring, Reporting, Evaluation & Improvement (MREI)
  • Strategic Joint Management of Issues & Priorities
  • Explicit plans for sustainability & succession
- Specific Professional Capacities
  • in creating consensus among organizations
  • in program planning & evaluation
  • in surveys and data-based decisions
  • in research and knowledge development
How to Build Capacity for working with &  within Education Systems

How Capacity-Building Fits within a  Ecological/ Systems Approaches

Research Questions/Knowledge Development Agendas on Capacity & Capacity-Building