“Capacity development is the process by which organizations change and improve, and how individuals within an organization develop and retain the competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) needed to carry out their duties at least competently and ideally beyond the minimum standard.” –World Health Organization • Capacity Development is key to the long-term success and sustainability of programmes. • Capacity development is a process of change. • Capacity development is the engine of human development. • If capacity is the means to plan and achieve, then capacity development describes theways to those means.