benefits of capacity building program

Benefits of Capacity Building

Capacity building is valuable and important because of its many long-term impacts. For example,

• Capacity building approaches purposefully minimize an over-reliance on outside experts as sources of knowledge, resources, and solutions to community issues. By preventing a dependency relationship on outsiders from forming, capacity building encourages local people to take action on local issues themselves.
  
• Capacity building fosters a sense of ownership and empowerment, so that community partners gain greater control over their own future development.
  
• Strengthened confidence, skills, knowledge, and resources that increase from capacity building efforts on one project may enhance a community partner's ability to envision and take action on other projects.
  
• Capacity building efforts are sensitive to the particularities of local culture and context, and, as a result, often lead to more feasible and appropriate community solutions than approaches that lack a capacity building focus.