Building the capacity builders: lessons from a multi-country training programme for local consultants

Rick James

Development in Practice, 2018, vol. 28, issue 4, 584-590

Abstract: Local consultants are an implicit, but overlooked, part of many capacity development strategies. It takes a trustworthy consultant to facilitate genuine change in a civil society organisation. This practical note identifies the learning from a local consultant formation programme (“Consultants for Change” – C4C) implemented in five countries in 2016–17. The note highlights six factors critical to C4C’s apparent success: recruitment; focus of the learning; design of the process; assignments between modules; mentoring support; and the human/financial resources. These same factors may be relevant and applicable to other capacity development programmes.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1444017

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