ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how government and businesses in sub-Saharan Africa seek to enhance their human, institutional, and infrastructure capacity in order to secure a stable and sustainable economy. The chapter uses data derived from primary and secondary sources to analyze the capacity building problems. The conceptual framework is based on the social constructionist, building block model of development, monetarists, and the Keynesian theories. Tapping talent for a capacity building model presents an argument that change initiatives do not come about as a due process following the crafting of strategy and policy. Capacity building is the sustainable creation of solutions and stabilization of capacity in order to reduce poverty, enhance self-reliance, and improve peoples' lives. The post-independence African states have not been in the right environment in which change agents and elites work together to play major part in determining how effective business-government and capacity building programs function or are implemented.
