This has typically lead companies to engage in uncoordinated initiatives, with low developmental impacts, short-term scopes, inadequate community consultation processes, and a preference for infrastructure projects over human capacity building.
Linked to this on-going process of improving the evidence base, there has been a series of learning and capacity building activities over the last four years consisting of training workshops, meetings, conferences and dialogues.
Linked to this on-going process of improving the evidence base on issues of sexuality and rights, has been a series of learning and capacity building activities over the last four years to use the research insights generated for more effective advocacy.
It is important that innovation does not simply focus on short-term performance over long-term structural changes with capacity building.
Developing research capacity has been experienced by some in hegemonic ways which extend the power of the privileged 'research capacity builders' from more resourced countries over those intended to 'benefit' from the capacity building [ 52].
This paper reviews lessons learnt over the past 8 years with regard to sustainable capacity building in the region.
Over the last decade, the number of health care doctoral students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) has increased by over 10 fold with the increasing funding opportunities for capacity building for health care and health leadership [ 1, 2].
Overall, our study sites in Nicaragua were developed over 27 years of close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, including numerous capacity building activities.
However in many conflict-affected countries this hand over is often problematic, especially if further outbreaks of violence impede capacity building [ 61, 64].
The Empretec program is an integrated capacity building, one that is operating in 32 countries with over 300,000 trainees across the developing world.
