The documents listed below contain references and summary details of many different resources and documents concerned with capacity and capacity development. At present this arrangement of the resources is primarily under the three main topic headings of the proposed structure of the package. It must be noted that this is a first, very raw, assembly of resources from many different sources that still needs of a lot of work and further organisation to match specific resources to each of the topic subsections.
Additionally, because the package has yet to be developed, none of these resources have yet been reviewed in terms of their potential relevance and usefulness for the learning process. So at a later stage some resources may be deleted and others added, and some may need to be referenced in more than one section. In order to streamline access to helpful resources it is likely that the references will be for key sections of documents, rather than the whole.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation, Peter Senge Second edition 2006, and The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organisation Senge, 1994
Generally considered to be the seminal work on learning organisations, The Fifth Discipline, and the accompanying Fieldbook, from leading management academic Peter Senge, offer theories from a range of disciplines, together with insights and examples from companies that use the methods, and practice guidance about how to work with tools and techniques that support the development of organisational learning.
Development and the Learning Organisation: A Development in Practice Reader 2003 Ed. Roper, Laura with Jethro Pettit and Deborah Eade Oxfam GB, Oxford
This is the most comprehensive collection of articles about learning organisations in the development sector. It both covers the theory and provides several case studies.
