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Human Capacity Development to adopt Best Practices

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Title Human Capacity Development to adopt Best Practices
 
Creator Anantha, K H
Wani, S P
Chander, G
Sawargaonkar, G L
 
Subject Others
 
Description The concept of capacity development, which emerged during the 1980s,
gained prominence in the 1990s and currently has wide usage in community
development (Eade, 1997; UNDP, 1998; Bolger, 2000). The term
capacity development is usually discussed as an approach to development
and cooperation. Capacity development encompasses human
resource development as an essential part of development (FAO, 1998).
It is a process by which individuals, groups, organizations and societies
enhance their abilities to identify and meet development challenges in
a sustainable manner (UNDP, 1998). It is human resource development,
which is a process of equipping individuals with the understanding of
access to information, knowledge, training and skills that enables them
to perform effectively. There is a direct relationship between capacity
building and agricultural education...
 
Publisher CABI
 
Contributor Raju, K V
Wani, S P
 
Date 2016-09
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9782/1/Bhoochetana-Book-Chapter-4.pdf
Anantha, K H and Wani, S P and Chander, G and Sawargaonkar, G L (2016) Human Capacity Development to adopt Best Practices. In: Harnessing Dividends from Drylands : Innovative Scaling up with Soil Nutrients. CABI, pp. 78-98. ISBN 9781780648156