PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES IN KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT

摘要: Knowledge and capacity development (KCD) involves something more than the strengthening of individual skills abilities. Trained individuals need an appropriate environment, proper mix opportunities incentives to use their acquired knowledge. The article therefore discusses KCD for water sector at three different levels, from organizational institutional level enabling environment. Secondly, describes current conceptual approaches KCD. They come a wide variety fields social sciences, as well field practice case studies, are sometimes contradicting. Ideas about originate including development, political economy, public administration, pedagogy, economics sociology. most important views fields, some examples that influence our thinking on KCD, described discussed. will discuss link between knowledge capacities, clarify one basic capacities is learn, highlight importance create, share manage results learning, levels. Extensive reference be provided respective other chapters in volume where detail studies provided, approaches.