This study assessed the capacity for designing and implementing agricultural and rural development policies, strategies … general environment and processes involved in policymaking. Reported capacity- strengthening efforts (for 13 of the 24 … system. Most of the selected institutions had both a human resource management unit (70.8 percent) and dedicated staff …

The need for agricultural ministries to have the capacity to develop appropriate policies and effectively implement … limitations to and identifying strategies for improving the capacity of ministries to make effective use of human and financial … resources. The review makes use a conceptual framework in which mission and functions, organizational capacity – a combination …

detailed quantitative and qualitative information on research capacity and investment trends within agricultural R&D agencies …

and influences of capacity at the levels of the community, program management, supporting institutions, and the government … implementing them. Following a brief review of the various rationales for an intensified focus on capacity and capacity development …, the paper examines the linkages between nutrition programming and capacity development processes before proposing a new …

and influences of capacity at the levels of the community, program management, supporting institutions, and the government … implementing them. Following a brief review of the various rationales for an intensified focus on capacity and capacity development …, the paper examines the linkages between nutrition programming and capacity development processes before proposing a new …

resource management (NRM). Data were collected in 48 villages in northeastern Burkina Faso, at the community, institutional …, household and market levels. The paper first discusses the analytical framework underlying the study of collective action, and … then describes in detail the methods used to measure collective action and community-level cooperative capacity, and the …

capacity for collective action. To estimate social capital's contribution to firm structure and performance, quantitative …, institutional and technological innovations that ameliorate the effects of the market failures that lead to use of social …