Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems
Edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Carlos Lopes and Khalid MalikOn-Line Discounted Price £15.26Earthscan2002ISBN 1-85383-919-1
The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation, and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both, as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book presents a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing, for which the revolution in information and communications technologies offers ample opportunities … a vision that is firmly founded on genuine ownership by the ultimate beneficiaries of development efforts: the government and citizens of developing countries'
