Despite the expenditure of millions of dollars, there is no consensus on how to conduct capacity building, nor have there been rigorous evaluations of capacity building efforts.
The objectives of this study is to conduct a building vulnerability assessment based on probabilistic analysis and to estimate the vulnerability of buildings and population in the study area under different scenarios of population distribution.
In its official engagement guide on the Americas, the CAF says it works in Belize and Guatemala to conduct capacity building efforts to help those countries defend against narco-traffickers.
Walton, for example, teams up with a police officer to conduct outreach; building relationships and trust with those she's aiming to help.
Successive kings, though, still needed more resources to pay for military campaigns, conduct building programmes or to reward their followers, and this meant exercising their feudal rights to interfere in the land-holdings of nobles.
Nicholas D. Kristof ("The Wrong Lessons of the Somalia Debacle," column, Feb. 5) asserts that failure to deploy American troops to conduct "nation-building" in Afghanistan, Sudan and Somalia led to a "chaos that breeds terrorism".
Building energy use prediction plays an important role in building energy management and conservation as it can help us to evaluate building energy efficiency, conduct building commissioning, and detect and diagnose building system faults.
Bridgewater, however, stepped back from committing to the project, noting there was still more due diligence to conduct before the building could become a reality.
Finally, although there is an increasing awareness, especially at government level, on the importance of staff development, the emphasis is still on capacity building to conduct research as opposed to capacity building to teach [ 8, 10].
The aim of this study was to conduct a whole-building analysis using a host of metrics, including green building metrics, with the goal of providing designers and healthcare providers quantitative data that can be used in their design and operations decisions.
