ABSTRACT
What are international development agencies funding when they say they are doing ‘capacity building’? How is that changing over time? What do we know about whether it’s working? This chapter undertook a comparative review of approaches to capacity building in the area of climate change that have been taken by development cooperation agencies around the world. The review included national ‘bilateral’ agencies like UK Aid (DFID), USAID, CIDA, SIDA and NORAD, and ‘multilateral’ regional banks and funds administered by the World Bank, where there has been a lot of experience in this area. It also looked at the UNFCCC funds and bodies that work in this area, like the UNDP, the UNEP, the Adaptation Fund and the Least Developed Countries Fund. The analysis looked at projects from 2006 to the first half of 2017.
