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1. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RURAL RECONSTRUCTION

2. History and Principles • IIRR is the brainchild of Dr. Y.C. James Yen, a pioneer of education for the common people in China, who founded the Chinese Mass Education Movement in the 1920s. • Rural Reconstruction is a participatory capacity building approach which aims to release the productive, physical, intellectual and social forces of individuals and groups to achieve justice, equality and peace.

3. Other RR Principles for Capacity Development STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP Commitment Vision Action

4. Strong partnership is the basis for strong capacity Ingredients of effective partnership • Vision of what effective partnership will achieve • Commitment to specific goals and partnership itself • Plan of action to achieve the goals of partnership

5. Genuine partnership must be built on four principles: • Mutual Trust • Mutual Respect • Mutual Knowledge • Mutual Help

6. LINKING CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT TO POVERTY REDUCATION CAREFUL ANALYSIS OF POVERTY Livelihood Insecurity Illiteracy Ill-health Civic Inertia

7. Evolving an Integrated Capacity Development Program Design appropriate program Livelihood Education Health Self Government

8. Capacity Development Program Impact Release Productive Power Intellectual Power Physical Power Social Power

9. Capacity Development Challenges Challenges exist at various levels • Demand • Supply • Support • Goal/Institutional

10. Supply Level Demand Level Support Goal Goal • Misconception/Limited understanding • Shortage • Lacks CD practice • Weak link with demand • Limited facilitation skill • Often imported from the north and for profit sector • Misconception/Limited understanding • Resource Driven/Influence by Supply and Support • Limited Knowledge of supply • Piece meal /Short cut • Support enabling and disabling • Inadequate • Vested interest/ own agenda • Short/ lived piece meal • Driven by inputs, outputs and activities • Hardware driven • Often influenced by support and supply • Lack of vision • Absence of CD culture • Weak link between CD and impact

11. COMPONENTS OF CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

12. Goals of Capacity Development Enhance • Learning • Effectiveness • Replicability and Scaling Up/Out • Sustainability • Scaling up/scaling out

13. CAPACITY BUILDING FRAMEWORK LCC CBO'S LEARNING COMMUNITY CENTERS COMMUNITIES t IIRR will work with community NGO • Capacity Building Local NGOs • Implementing NGO/CBDOs • CBO • Local Government Self -Help groups • Implementing NGOs • local Government STRATEGIC 2b COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING PARTNERS • Implementing NGOs • Networks • Advocacy organisation 1 • Donors 2a NGOs / CBOs STRATEGIC CAPACITY BUILDING OUTREACH COMMUNITIES Providing demand led services to CAPACITY BUILDING None or Minimal 3 • Development NGO’s IIRR Involvement (National and (THE LEARNING IIRR) International.) Government • • Private sector • Donors

14. Capacity Development Lessons • Combining established development approaches and practices • Evolves models from proven experiences that are tested over a long period of time • Contributes to Influencing Global System and Action

15. Capacity Development Lessons • Program not project • Broad goal, long term flexible time frame • Flexible allocation of resources • Not designed and implemented but evolved and grew over time • Process oriented not inputs and outputs • People centered not resource or project based • Integration of participatory research • Fit between addressing poverty and organizational effectiveness

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