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The international conferences provide a platform for both local and international partners to familiarize participants with the benefits and challenges of development assistance. The international community recognizes capacity and capacity development as the two most important issues that need to be addressed if developing countries wish to succeed in achieving sustainable development. Various conferences and summits recognize these concepts, and actions are taken to address the critical issues that affect them. These concepts have been part of all development-assistance initiatives, and these concepts are about change, effectiveness, sustainability and developing core capabilities. But capacity development is regarded as an instrument, a process, an objective, an approach to development, a framework for change, and transformation.
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Analoui, F., Danquah, J.K. (2017). Capacity Development in Context of Development: A Critical Debate. In: Critical Capacity Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47416-8_3
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