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Strengthening capacity

Strengthening capacity

Improving capacity
Reinforcing capability

Description

Strengthening capacity involves developing and enhancing the skills, resources, structures, and systems necessary for individuals, organizations, or communities to effectively address challenges and achieve their objectives. This strategy focuses on practical actions such as training, resource allocation, institutional support, and knowledge transfer to remedy gaps in performance or resilience. By building capacity, stakeholders are better equipped to implement solutions, adapt to change, and sustain progress in the face of evolving problems.

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Strengthening capability of developing countries in export promotion

Creating waste recycling structures

Strengthening scientific and technological capacity

Strengthening research capacity

Strengthening negotiating capacities

Strengthening national capacities for environmental health interventions

Strengthening local capacity to adapt appropriate technologies

Strengthening institutional capacity to implement sustainable development plans

Strengthening capacity to control communicable diseases

Strengthening capacity to build demographic factors into national sustainable development policies

Preventing marine pollution from land-based sources

Integrating sustainable development information

Improving national chemicals management capabilities

Improving capacity for crop planning

Developing non-government organizations

Conducting technology assessments

Building dependable mass communication

Strengthening production capacity of the poor

Strengthening water management agencies

Strengthening United Nations institutional capacities on women and development

Strengthening training capacity in developing countries

Strengthening science and technology information capacity

Strengthening research capacities for waste management

Strengthening productive capacity of low-income groups

Strengthening non governmental organisations management capacity

Strengthening network capacity

Strengthening negotiating capacity of governments with transnational corporations

Strengthening national environmental data assessment capabilities

Strengthening national capacity to reuse and recycle waste

Strengthening national capacity for safe treatment and disposal of waste

Strengthening national capacities to collect, assess and use environmental data in decision-making

Strengthening national capacities on sustainable forest use

Strengthening national capacities for improving water supply

Strengthening national capacities for conservation of marine living resources

Strengthening national capability to assess global climate change

Strengthening national capabilities to use chemical classification and labelling systems

Strengthening national and local environmental protection agencies

Strengthening national and local capacity for managing rapidly growing cities

Strengthening managerial capabilities of local water user groups

Strengthening local authority capabilities on water protection

Strengthening international institutional capacity for sustainable use of forest resources

Strengthening inter-agency coordination on population and sustainable development issues

Strengthening institutional capacity to benefit from biotechnology developments

Strengthening institutional capacity for economic policy-making

Strengthening government administrative and financial systems

Strengthening developing country capacity to manage waste from nuclear programmes

Strengthening developing country capacities to prevent illegal traffic in dangerous products

Strengthening developing country capability in conservation and sustainable use of high seas marine living resources

Strengthening capacity to meet primary health care needs

Strengthening capacity to manage demographic change

Strengthening capacity to detect illegal traffic

Strengthening capacity to conduct and apply scientific research to the environment

Strengthening capacity to combat poverty

Strengthening capacity to assess atmospheric emissions

Strengthening capacity of developing countries for sustainable use of marine living resources

Strengthening capabilities for water resource assessment

Strengthening capabilities for dealing with chemical accidents

Protecting vulnerable groups

Promoting women entrepreneurs

Improving tripartite cooperation to ensure equitable sustainable development

Improving capacity to assess hazardous waste risks

Enhancing science and technology training

Value

Reference

Sahley, Carol: Strengthening the Capacity of NGOs: cases of small enterprise development agencies in Africa

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Sustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(B) Basic universal strategies

Subject

Consciousness » Perseverance
Development » Reform
Industry » Construction

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

J3406

DOCID

12034060

D7NID

194607

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/strengthening-capacity

Last update

Oct 6, 2022