Does training strengthen capacity?: Lessons from capacity development in Ghana, Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Suresh Chandra Babu, Raymond Mensah and Shashidhara Kolavalli

No 9, GSSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Developing countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, continue to face insurmountable challenges in building and sustaining capacity for development... This paper reports on a preliminary exercise to examine training and its contribution to developing capacity in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, as an input to developing a larger research and development agenda to strengthen the capacity of the ministry to effectively implement its strategies. The paper is structured as follows. A brief review of relevant issues is presented first. Then section, the authors describe how the study was done and offer the findings, followed by some implications for developing a strategic framework for capacity development in the last section.

Keywords: capacity strengthening; capacity development; training; agriculture; Ghana; Western Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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