ABSTRACT
In civil society development programmes, capacity building is conceived on several levels, that is, capacity can be identified or strengthened at individual, team, organisational, sector or even society level. The donors respected the capacity builder–NGO relationship, indeed the NGOs set up a consultative group that guided INTRAC’s work over a period of almost three years. International NGO Training & Research Centre (INTRAC)’s Department for International Development (DFID) -funded programme had four main objectives: to build organisational capacity among a number of key civil society organisation (CSO) in the three main countries targeted by the programme (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan). It also include to raise the skills and knowledge of CS staff and activists, to research what community development means or could offer in the region and to improve communications and networking between CSOs and donors. INTRAC’s programme for ‘Institutional Strengthening of Civil Society in Central Asia’ was funded by the British government’s DFID.
