Training for healthcare in Africa

Definition of Capacity Building

Sustainable capacity-building encompasses the building of organizational and technical abilities, behaviours, relationships and values that enable individuals, groups an organizations to enhance their performance effectively and to achieve their development objectives over time. It includes both strengthening the processes, systems and rules that shape collective and individual behavious and performance in all development endeavors as well as people's ability and willingness to play new developmental roles and to adapt to new demands and situations.

Limited capacity is one of the constraints that makes progress so difficult to achieve in least developed countries, which predominate in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has long faced a shortage of health professionals, managers, researchers, policy-makers and planners to implement programmes, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has made matters worse. Thus, training and skills development is a cornerstone of many of UNFPA-supported projects in the region. In recent years, the Fund has supported training programmes for managers, clinicians, demographers, communicators and trainers. The training of trainers is important as a way of building a sustainable component into these programmes as trainers can continue the process of building capacity.

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Building Partnerships for Progress

The Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI) is an intergovernmental regional management development center