...Capacity Building Versus Capacity Development in Healthcare Soumya Vyas Student, Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India Capacity building is not a new concept in healthcare. Every innovation has been evidently supported by Capacity Building to establish effective healthcare systems. The term was improvised by UNDP in 1991 as Community Capacity Building which gave its application in three levels namely individual, institutional and societal. This concept immediately brings to mind ideas like training, financial or technical aid, etc. Although it has been an essential and effective approach, there is possible scope for betterment using Capacity Development. It can be explained as the process of obtaining, strengthening and maintaining the capabilities at all the three levels to set and achieve their own development objectives over time. Although the distinction between the two is minute, the adaption of the latter where necessary can bring about considerable change and effect. Development zooms in on the exiting features than can be transformed into capabilities. Instead of introduction of the lacking, capacity development helps realise an alternate route to the same objective using unrelated but pre-existing features. The study will elaborate on the example of such from the healthcare field explaining how new measures can be evolved to realise basic goals. One of the most profound issues in healthcare in India is the budget crunch and Capacity Development can...
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...Impact assessment of capacity building and training: assessment framework and two case studies Jenny Gordon and Kevin Chadwick Centre for International Economics, Canberra February 2007 The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) operates as part of Australia’s international development cooperation program, with a mission to achieve more-productive and sustainable agricultural systems, for the benefit of developing countries and Australia. It commissions collaborative research between Australian and developing-country researchers in areas where Australia has special research competence. It also administers Australia’s contribution to the International Agricultural Research Centres. ACIAR seeks to ensure that the outputs of its funded research are adopted by farmers, policy makers, quarantine officers and other beneficiaries. In order to monitor the effects of its projects, ACIAR commissions independent assessments of selected projects. This series reports the results of these independent studies. Communications regarding any aspects of this series should be directed to: The Research Program Manager Policy Linkages and Impact Assessment Program ACIAR GPO Box 1571 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia tel +612 62170500 email © Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research GPO Box 1571, Canberra ACT 2601 Gordon, J. and Chadwick, K. Impact assessment of capacity building and training: assessment framework and two case studies. Impact Assessment...
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...Introduction What is Capacity Building? According to the National Council of Non-profits it’s “…an investment in the effectiveness and sustainability…”which improves a country’s standing and fulfilment of goals and objectives set within a specific time period and effectively met. Consequently, it reflects positive impacts upon the living standards of communities (National Council of Non-profit, 2017). Therefore, the aim is to identify how Africa stands on further developing itself through education, growth, and the management of resources through community involvement, in addition; to determine whether Africa’s capacity building is effective and sustainable in regard to many declarations and international agreements to help further development...
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...Building leadership Capacity One of the first lessons where I have learned about the concept of the character and proper path for me in the future was a single business experience from my mother who also worked her entire career in pharmaceutical industry. This anecdote is one of the things that defined me and I still say that this story is a single most important moment where I understood how to behave in the future. My mom worked in a team of 5 people and was most experienced, team had their boss who was managing everyday activities and at one point new young women was employed and came to the team. She was unexperienced and new but very motivated and ambitious. Every member of the team except my mom find this new colleague to be nuisance and possible threat or competition so everyone was very rude to her and did not provide and support, not even their boss whose job this actually was. So my mom at that point took the role of the leader, she is took on herself to help and teach her because it was very complex job. She stayed after work every day to support and coach this new colleague, guide her because she understood that it was imperative for the new girl to become useful member of the team as soon as possible and that this will have great impact on performance of whole team. It took only one year and that new colleague became manager of whole team. So you can imagine the impact this had on my mother’s career. She was the only one from the team who was allowed to travel to...
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...from December 2000 most of the field activities were launched in January 2001 onwards. The project is considered to be an innovative effort at evolving a partnership among GoB agencies, NGOs, fishing communities and the private sector for providing services at the doorsteps of the communities to empower them and encourage the community thus prepared to contribute to regeneration of coastal fisheries resources for their own sustainable livelihoods. The Empowerment of Coastal Fishing Communities For Livelihood Security project aims to enable and facilitate participatory community-based fisheries co-management and sustainable human development in coastal fishing communities of selected Upazilla of Cox’s Bazar District, through awareness building, organization and empowerment of communities, promotion of alternative/additional income generating activities, facilitate improved access to productive, social and administrative services, and strengthening linkages between organized communities and local government institutions. The primary aim of the project is to empower of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of...
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...intended to provide a brief overview of some of the most prominent theories which have been put forward as a means of understanding and appraising participation structures and practices. It has been prepared in order to provide a theoretical context within which the appropriateness of different approaches to community participation in rural transport in Wiltshire can be assessed. The note begins by providing a simple definition of participation. Two of the more prominent frameworks for community participation are then summarised and explored. In recognition that such frameworks represent simplifications of a far more complex reality, a number of these complexities are then explored, namely: • dimensions of power; • issues of process and capacity; and • the nature of ‘community’. The note concludes by describing an evaluation tool for community participation, which has sought to address many of these complexities. 1. A definition of participation For the purposes of this note a useful definition of public or community participation is that adopted by Stoker (1997) for ‘political participation’ (following Parry et al, 1992): members of the public ‘taking part in any of the processes of formulation, passage and implementation of public policies’. This is a wide-ranging definition, which extends the emphasis of public participation beyond the development of policy, to decision-making and implementation. 2. Theoretical frameworks 2.1 Arnstein’s ladder of participation Perhaps the...
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...Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) MCP 2135 – Leading and Managing Change in Organizations MBA in Human Resource Management Semester II – 2010/2012 Course Director : Prof. Sudatta Ranasinghe Professor of Management Name of the Student : Gamini Hettiarachchi Student Registration No. : 110046980 Date Submitted :16.05.2011 Word Count : 1662 words, 5 single side A4 pages Leading and managing change in organizations: Importance of human resource capacity building Term Paper (Individual Assignment) Abstract This term paper addresses human resource capacity building as a strategic instrument in leading and managing change in organizations. After describing the process and the basic steps in leading and managing change, the article has taken an effort to identify the role of leaders and the managers to derive a conceptual frame of reference to develop arguments in strategic importance of human resource capacity building in the process of leading and managing change in organization. To meet the challenges, negative as well as positive, HR capacity building is needed in most of the steps and stages in the process of leading and managing change in organizations. Further, developing human capacities has highlighted as one of the major roles and core functionalities of leaders and managers. Viewing human resources as human capital and beyond, the term paper argues that without...
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...the office as set down in the Agreement was to: 1. Monitor MGB’s activities in Argentina; 2. Develop research programs with national and regional institutions in order to strengthen the capacity of the said institutions and to contribute to the elaboration of national and regional policies in MGB’s research fields. 3. While the Agreement allowed MGB to undertake a broad scope of activities, its initial staffing and funding for the first five years limited the activities and research undertaken at this site. 4. However, beginning in 2011, MGB started to obtain additional support and expand the research program and number of staff located at this Argentina office. As of March 2011, 24 MGB staff work in the ARGENTINA office with an additional 6 staff working out of MGB Headquarters in India. Of the 24 staff working in the ARGENTINA office, 7 are internationally recruited staff and 17 nationally recruited staff. 5. This office has now expanded its work scope to conduct policy research and communications and capacity building activities in the region. It carries out research and develops policy advice in response to requests from regional institutions and stakeholder organizations. The office serves as liaison to other MGB Divisions and facilitate their research and capacity strengthening activities in the Argentina...
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...PROPOSAL ON TRAINING CONSTITUENCY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES AND LOCATIONAL COMMITTEES Introduction Participatory Decision-Making Good governance requires the population to be part of the decision-making process. It needs citizens at all levels of society to take part in the management of that society. Citizens have to be involved in talking about and deciding how their society is to be administered. If the people are not consulted, then the decisions that are made may be against their interest, social, cultural, economic and political conditions. It ensures that there is fair play and that no single interest group is favoured in the decision-making process. It also helps people unite and relate to each other with a common goal of peace and progress. Government Policy Position For a long time the government position has encouraged citizens to be spectators and passive listeners to what it was doing. It gave a lot of space for those entrusted with instruments of government and public resources to use them as personal property, abuse of office, corruption and rundown public resources That position has shifted drastically. In its place are now policy positions that are focusing on the people, calling for their active participation and involvement. Key driving policy positions are the Economic Recovery Strategy for wealth creation and employment and the millennium development goal. The policy positions sprung from the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. The main focus...
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...The circulation focus is an indispensable piece of any association. A DC (Distribution Center) works as a cost focus and does not can produce any benefit all alone’s. The building is given an apportioned plan for the year and is in charge of staying inside the parameters of that funding. Numerous distinctive elements can influence a building’s capacity to effectively meet that funding and gainfulness is one of the greatest ones. Gainfulness clearly drives the quantity of containers that are transformed and the more that are prepared, the better that is for the monetary allowance. Wage hours are additionally specifically affected by benefit. In the event that every colleague has high gainfulness, it will take less wage hours to achieve the volumes than the financial backing considers. There can likewise be a drawback of high gainfulness, as well. The quicker a group ventures to every part of the more potential there is for inefficiencies and wounds. These can really nullify any of the monetary profits acknowledged from the higher profit of the group by adding extra wage hours to settle quality issues and added expenses identified with lost work hours. The objective now gets to be the means by which to raise benefit and be productive, all while constraining the potential for these negative symptoms. Your building is one of the bigger structures I have had the chance to evaluate and I thank you for that opportunity. A bigger gathering can likewise harbor bigger issues. Your middle...
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...Developing business in the brewing industry as thousands of tradition, always face of intense competition from existing competitors as well as new entrants. In additional, any manufacturers have difficult in expending production capacities and resources. This report aims to recommend how to continue growing business without compromising on quality in high competitive market and limited production capacities and resources. After four year growth in volume, from 6,000 cases in 2008 to 200,000 cases in 2012, the 961 volume of beer sold increased dozens of times. The various products of 961 beer have presented and its retailers network have expanded to variety channel such as bars, restaurants and local supermarkets, even it opened a beer pub by the company. This pub has been an exciting successful case and also has given hints for next periods. However, the company faced of limited capacity for the production of larger volumes while the team operated in small volume and even a new bottling machine had to be ordered. The company had strategically become one of biggest Lebanese brewing company and had prepared for huge competition from Almaza who is also local company dominated the Lebanese market. In additional, by being acquired by Heineken in 2002, this closet competitor took on hand many advantages in technology, experiences, alternative famous brand from the No. 1 worldwide brewing corporation. While the company has built all things from zero. Its largest early customer group...
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...Political Competency Name Institution Lessons learned about Political Competency from the Documentary, Shameless Propaganda (2013) Political competency is viewed as the capacity to understand what an individual can or cannot control when to take action, which is going against your motive and who you require on your side to push your motive ahead. Political competency relates to having knowledge of how to map the political terrain, get others on your area and lead coalitions. More often than not, political competency is not viewed as a critical core competence that is required by all politicians or leaders within an organization. The documentary “Shameless Propaganda” gives insights of the art of political competence that took place in Canada between 1939 and 1945 (“National Film Board of Canada,” 2014). When you ask fruitful pioneers how they get things going, they'll converse with you about conceptualizing, support, authority, market investigation, and arranging, however they'll infrequently expound on the unending normal micro-legislative issues they participate in. Legislative issues are by all accounts an unthinkable subject in authoritative life-the elephant in the initiative parlor that nobody examines or concedes is there (Golubeva, 2013). Political competence is not fiendishness by result of authoritative life. Being political, in its most appealing light, is being mindful of the hobbies of others, discovering zones of shared view, bringing others on board, and...
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...BUILDING CIVILIAN CAPACITY BY ARMED FORCES OF BANGLADESH FOR PEACE BUILDING MISSIONS IN UNITED NATIONS 1. Bangladesh stepped into the family of 'Blue-Helmet' through participation in UNIIMOG (Iraq-Iran) in 1988 with 15 Military Observers from Bangladesh Army. Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Air Force joined UNPKO in 1993 while Bangladesh Police joined in 1989. Till now Bangladesh has contributed in 54 UN peacekeeping missions in 39 countries, where 1,13,169 Bangladeshi peacekeepers have participated of which 1,02,794 are from the Armed Forces. At present with strength of 9,111 peacekeepers (7,197 from the Armed Forces), Bangladesh is the highest peacekeepers contributing country in the world. Being the largest troops and police contributing country for UN peace keeping missions, Bangladesh holds a large UN experienced work force. The experience of such a large work force can be utilized effectively in peace building role even after they retire from the government service. 2. Peace building in countries emerging from conflict is a huge, complex undertaking as it happens in an insecure, politically fragile and therefore challenging environment. There is always a challenge to match the crucial response time with the availability of experienced civilian workforce to be deployed for peace building missions. In this respect UN has rightly focused on building civilian capacity in members states. Creating a national database as a tool of human resource system is surely a need of...
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...of transfers from EROW ? 2. Examine the Actual and Budgeted Fixed Costs of Exhibit 2. Show the calculations used to derive actual and budget: a. Standard b. Cost Adjustments (HINT: the cost adjustment hinges on the answer to question 1b) c. Volume Variance 3. As Choquette, what evidence would you present to the Polysar Board of Directors during the upcoming performance review of NASA Rubber Division. Pay particular attention to questions that may be raised concerning the accuracy and meaning of volume variances. 4. In light of the current compensation plan, what sales and production strategy is Henderson (EROW Division) likely to choose? What would Choquette (NASA Division) prefer? 5. Suppose EROW is operating at capacity and would like to purchase additional rubber. If EROW could buy the rubber from an external source (and not have to purchase it from NASA) , what is the most that EROW would be willing to pay (per tonne)? 6. Compare the profitability (per tonne) of EROW and NASA. How should the company schedule production to insure the highest level of profits to the Rubber Group in...
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...individuals who are working and have sustained injuries on or off the job, a key focus of rehabilitation is restoration of work capacity. Rehabilitation programs that are funded by government or private insurers often have an explicit goal of returning the injured party to previous or comparable levels of employment. In such cases, it is important to identify required job tasks and expected performance levels. Such information creates targeted outcomes for the rehabilitation program. The overall rehabilitation process is guided by the job analysis through a process wherein assessed levels of current functional capacity are compared to the required job performance demands (Loisel et al. 2001). Identified gaps between worker capacity and job demands are then addressed through restorative programs and/or job modification. Work transition planning In rehabilitation the job analysis is used to provide information to match the injured worker with tasks that can be safely performed on initial resumption of duties following an absence or time away from regular duties. The job analysis information serves as the foundation for a graduated work resumption process that optimizes productivity and compliments the rehabilitation program and injury recovery. Regular review of the job analysis is used to identify job demands that are suitable to the worker's capacities throughout the recovery process until the worker resumes the pre-injury job or reaches an optimal level of performance in a...
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