Evaluation of Experiences in Human Capacity Development

Abstract

Capacity development of officials in government is hardly considered as investment in human resource for harvesting dividends for employers.  Consequently, training is mostly imparted in a mechanical manner which fails to add any value to the existing levels of knowledge, skills and competence of officials. Any initiative of human capacity development administered with active involvement of the leadership with an in-built monitoring system at different stages is an outcome-oriented experiment. The presented paper is a descriptive and commentary work of two such projects undertaken in the government sector with participation of a bi-lateral agency, it analyses experiences of a competence development project executed for capacity development of different official in different government institutions.  The author has taken help from project documents besides institutional memories for scripting this work as author has been involved in planning, execution, and implementation of both projects on behalf of the bi-lateral agency.   The findings of the projects indicated positive results in comparison to planned activities and interventions. The officials who participated in the learning programmes in the project have been reported to shown positive change besides competence development in the identified indicators of the spectrum. In addition to this, from the point of view of sustainability towards this initiative, the training institutions too have revised their curricula by incorporating the learnings of the project. The capacity development project planning, monitoring and implementation as explained in the work can be useful for the professionals and researchers who are engaged in the human capacity development sector.