Capacity Building
Critical components for development
Capacity Building is oftentimes considered to be one of the most overused terms in developing nations. What is this capacity building of which we speak? According to Wikipedia "Capacity building, also referred to as capacity development, is a conceptual approach to development that focuses on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people, governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations from realizing their developmental goals while enhancing the abilities that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable results."
Another definition is "The term used repeatedly in the Doha Declaration referring to the assistance to be provided to developing countries in establishing and administering their trade policies, conducting analysis, and identifying their interests in trade negotiations."
My favourite and most relevant to my professional history is as follows "Capacity building involves increasing knowledge, enhancing skills and providing opportunities for people and organisations to share their experiences, and increase their awareness and confidence to enable them to participate more fully in processes, systems and ultimately decisions." This definition enables each to own our destinies and also embraces the need for cultural identities' incorporation in government, civil society and other development initiatives.
What ability are you able to strengthen today?
Andrea
Another definition is "The term used repeatedly in the Doha Declaration referring to the assistance to be provided to developing countries in establishing and administering their trade policies, conducting analysis, and identifying their interests in trade negotiations."
My favourite and most relevant to my professional history is as follows "Capacity building involves increasing knowledge, enhancing skills and providing opportunities for people and organisations to share their experiences, and increase their awareness and confidence to enable them to participate more fully in processes, systems and ultimately decisions." This definition enables each to own our destinies and also embraces the need for cultural identities' incorporation in government, civil society and other development initiatives.
What ability are you able to strengthen today?
Andrea
Target Market
The term target market is used to describe the section of the entire community that we would like to focus our business efforts. This definition incorporates the broadening and deepening of the term community. With the easy access to numerous and varied communities we can determine if our community is actually in our place of residence, near our place of residence, in our country or in another location. After reading this page, with the best of business plans ask yourself, the world is a huge cake, what slice of it do we serve?
The greatest challenging in managing a business, especially at start-up phase is determining what we can actually deliver. This is termed capacity and will be discussed at a later date. When we can answer the questions:
So today, let's question ourselves ....who is our target market?
The greatest challenging in managing a business, especially at start-up phase is determining what we can actually deliver. This is termed capacity and will be discussed at a later date. When we can answer the questions:
- What do we do?
- How do we enhance others' lives?
- Who are these people?
- How do I access them?
- Do I use another entity to get to them?
- Who really are my customers?
- What are their needs?
- Can I truly serve them?
So today, let's question ourselves ....who is our target market?