Capacity Building

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Enhancing the skills, abilities, and processes of public servants, civil society, and citizens is essential to achieving long-lasting results in opening government.

Technical specifications: Set of activities to enhance the skills, competencies, abilities, understanding, systems, processes, and institutional infrastructure of government, civil society, or citizens to achieve or accelerate results in a particular open government policy area. Activities include but are not limited to training programs for government or civil society representatives, development and distribution of guidelines, standards, toolkits, other learning resources, as well as equipping government offices with tools, equipment, systems, etc.