| Capacity
development is a priority area for
PPD. One of the most important lessons
learned over the couple of year is
that despite great interest and enthusiasm
among the developing countries to
share their expertise, the capacity
to do so is often lacking. In order
to augment capacities PPD use certain
modalities, the following chapter
is an account of the PPD’s efforts
for capacity building.
Over
the years, PPD has also established
strong relationship with national
and regional training and research
institutions in Asia, Africa, Middle
East and Latin America and identified
twenty Centers of Excellence as PPD
Partner Institutes (PIs). PPD has
worked to develop the capacity of
these Partner Institutes and conduct
regional and international training
programs. A capacity development needs
assessment was conducted by PPD for
the Partner Institutes where priority
needs were identified and accordingly,
PPD prepared four Generic Modules
in collaboration with representatives
of the PIs and experts. These Generic
Modules were incorporated into the
training curricula of the PIs and
helped building capacity at the institutional
level. PPD is in the process of expanding
the network of PIs by bringing in
other well-established institutions
creating a database of PIs for exchange
of information, research findings
and expertise.
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