Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Troubling partnerships: Perspectives from the receiving end of capacity development

Hagelsteen, Magnus LU ; Becker, Per LU orcid and Abrahamsson, Marcus LU (2021) In International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 59.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to complement the overwhelming focus on external partners in existing studies of capacity development for disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate change adaptation (CCA), by exploring the perspectives of internal partners on challenges and possible solutions. 27 qualitative semi-structured interviews with experts, program officers and managers in five countries in the Southern African Development Community region were conducted. Three requisite and interdependent types of capacities—technical, processual, and contextual—in order to develop sustainability are suggested from the result. A typology of seven failures for partners to avoid when designing and implementing capacity development projects for DRR or CCA... (More)
The purpose of this paper is to complement the overwhelming focus on external partners in existing studies of capacity development for disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate change adaptation (CCA), by exploring the perspectives of internal partners on challenges and possible solutions. 27 qualitative semi-structured interviews with experts, program officers and managers in five countries in the Southern African Development Community region were conducted. Three requisite and interdependent types of capacities—technical, processual, and contextual—in order to develop sustainability are suggested from the result. A typology of seven failures for partners to avoid when designing and implementing capacity development projects for DRR or CCA in the future are presented. The more of these failures occur, the less effective and sustainable capacity development becomes. For capacity development to be sustainable, more credit to internal partners, explicit opportunities for mutual learning and adaptive roles of external partners spanning from expert to coach need to be considered. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; and
organization
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
volume
59
article number
102231
publisher
Elsevier
external identifiers
  • scopus:85103944678
ISSN
2212-4209
DOI
10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102231
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
11308adc-7995-40cb-a0c6-acad1170e5bc
date added to LUP
2021-04-17 09:07:54
date last changed
2022-04-27 01:36:04
@article{11308adc-7995-40cb-a0c6-acad1170e5bc,
  abstract     = {{The purpose of this paper is to complement the overwhelming focus on external partners in existing studies of capacity development for disaster risk reduction (DRR) or climate change adaptation (CCA), by exploring the perspectives of internal partners on challenges and possible solutions. 27 qualitative semi-structured interviews with experts, program officers and managers in five countries in the Southern African Development Community region were conducted. Three requisite and interdependent types of capacities—technical, processual, and contextual—in order to develop sustainability are suggested from the result. A typology of seven failures for partners to avoid when designing and implementing capacity development projects for DRR or CCA in the future are presented. The more of these failures occur, the less effective and sustainable capacity development becomes. For capacity development to be sustainable, more credit to internal partners, explicit opportunities for mutual learning and adaptive roles of external partners spanning from expert to coach need to be considered.}},
  author       = {{Hagelsteen, Magnus and Becker, Per and Abrahamsson, Marcus}},
  issn         = {{2212-4209}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{06}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction}},
  title        = {{Troubling partnerships: Perspectives from the receiving end of capacity development}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102231}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102231}},
  volume       = {{59}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}