Capacity building in the Asia Pacific

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores capacity building in the Asia Pacific region. It demonstrates many different processes and programmes linked to capacity development and examine how these programmes contribute to improving and sustaining local living standards. It demonstrates how small changes and one-off local development programmes have a cumulative and ongoing positive impact on local development and well-being. The book focuses on two groupings of the articles. The first section incorporates those studies that take a macro perspective and examine national and international challenges and programmes linked to capacity building. In the second grouping, the focus is on regional and local studies, examining the challenges and programmes linked to rural and remote regions, and includes human development and capacity building of Indigenous people; farmer capacity building and agricultural development and harnessing community capacity for efficient water use, job generation and improving market access.