Capacity Development Series
This series provides the governments of ADB's Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs) with analyses and insights on key issues and lessons learned with respect to capacity development. Cases studied highlight a range of experiences throughout the region by sector, theme and source of external support, revealing approaches to capacity development that work best and the conditions that have been conducive to their success. They also explore the unique challenges faced by PDMCs in addressing capacity constraints as well as some of the opportunities facing governments and the people in the Pacific islands. Among other things, the case studies underline the importance of PDMC leadership, engagement of local partners, strategic attention to long-term capacity issues and effective use of external resources.
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Reconstructing a Fragile State
Emerging from the ethnic tensions that tore the Solomon Islands apart from 1998 to 2003, the country's Ministry of Infrastructure Development faced a number of serious challenges. -
A Tale of Two CDs: Capacity Development and Community Development in the Waste, Water, and Sanitation Sector in Kiribati
The Community Development and Sustainable Participation story is indeed “a tale of two CDs;” it demonstrated the important relationship between capacity development and community development. -
Vanuatu Legal Sector Strengthening Program
The Vanuatu Legal Sector Strengthening Program was launched in 2002 at a time when "the public was calling for a revamp of the whole judiciary." -
Building Capacity through Participation: Nauru National Sustainable Development Strategy
A national development plan was one of the outcomes of Nauru's National Sustainable Development Strategy Project. To have a wide community engagement, a participatory planning process was designed and implemented. -
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative
Began on a pilot basis in mid-2004, the Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative focuses on strengthening the capacity of 18 provincial administrations in Papua New Guinea to better deliver effective services to the people. -
Responding to the Youth Crisis
With only 20 years of independence, the Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation. It is also a nation of young people with half of its population under the age of 18 years. -
Bridging the State-Society Gap: The Community Justice Liaison Unit of Papua New Guinea
The Community Justice Liaison Unit is the mechanism through which the Law and Justice Sector Program helps civil society link with formal law and justice agencies. -
Improving Government
Capacity development (CD) is central to improving standards of living and reducing poverty in developing member countries. CD is a means to an end—the end being improved government performance. -
Learning from Success
What are the three most important things? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata - the people, the people, the people. (Maori saying) -
Supporting Community-Based Capacity Development
Established in the 1990s, the Falekaupule Trust Fund helps build capacity for outer island development, relying on participatory methods to "put power in the hands of community members.
