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Presenter and author: Rodney Erakovich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management and Public Administration, School of Business Administration, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort, Worth, Texas. rerakovich@txwes.edu
Author: Raymon R. Bruce, PhD, Fulbright Senior Specialist and Adjunct Professor, University of Texas at Arlington and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, New Mexico, USA, raybruce@comcast.net
Presenter and Author: Dusan Sipovac, International Office Manager and Coordinator, Center for Public Administration, , Faculty of Law, University of Kragujevac, Serbia; dsipovac@yahoo.com
Author: Sangeeta Sharma, PhD, Coordinator, Special Assistance Program, Municipal Capacity Building, Department of Public Administration, University of Rajasthan, India, sangeetajpr2004@yahoo.co.in
Author: S. K. Kataria, PhD, Special Assistance Program, Municipal Capacity Building, Department of Public Administration, University of Rajasthan, India, skkataria64@rediffmail.com
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Abstract
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The primary purpose of capacity building for local government is to increase the capability of public servants and key stakeholders to develop and enact their combined potential capacity to meet changing needs of their community’s commonwealth in a fair, equitable, and robust way.
With the current globalization of the economy we need to develop a holistic approach to capacity building that looks not only at the many levels of need in a single community, but also we need to develop capacity building theory and methodology that is relevant to include the multilayered world community and its economy.
This paper examines areas of capacity building that are still in unchartered territory. We examine the nature of human, economic, social, civic, political, and natural resource capital as they relate to holistic capacity building. Furthermore, we present a comprehensive capacity building methodology with a global view to provide consideration for a holistic leadership approach.
This paper provides three brief international case studies of the various efforts of three capacity building programs learning from each other to give added dimensions to these elusive terms. One effort in Serbia involves the University of Kragujevac and the city administration partnership, using a bottom-up phased approach to developing the local government administration’s capacity to meet European Union standards; the second case study involves the state of Rajasthan, India in a top-down, state wide program and a Special Assistance Programme for capacity building at the University of Rajasthan. A third case study involves the garment manufacturing industry’s economic development in Sri Lanka working together with their public and academic sector partners in a holistic approach to building the capacity of it human resources and technology to meet the community’s challenges of regional and global competition.
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