The emerging understanding about the need for new approaches to CD is creating diverse needs for learning and change throughout the development and aid systems. There is increasing recognition that capacity and its development are areas of knowledge, skills and practice in their own right. Nevertheless this recognition is often at odds with the norms of established disciplines, which creates challenges for introducing new practices, despite the pressing need for change.
As one of a range of responses in the current search for more effective CD practices this study is motivated by the premise that many different constituencies will find it useful to have available a learning package that can be continuously adapted and updated as required. The World Bank Institute (WBI) have commissioned, in conjunction with Learning for Capacity Development (LenCD), a Scoping Study about the options for developing such a package. The aim is to collaborate with LenCD partners to co-create a package that adds value to what already exists by offering concrete and practical solutions to overcome the current gaps in the knowledge and practice of CD. This Inception Note gives preliminary indicators about the scope, structure and content of a package. The final study will develop those factors further and also outline ways in which LenCD partners might work together to create a resource to share among themselves and with others.
