Capacity Assessment and Capacity Development Strategy Report
training competencies than those required for Panchayat CD, and current competencies are largely at the former level only. GAP 1
: Lack of a Training Information System (MIS)
GAP 2
: Inadequate professional CD competencies in the nodal organization
Priority
: Very high
8.4 CD Inputs Delivery—Processes, Time-frames, and Sequencing Current efforts at providing full coverage to orientation training appear to have been successfully implemented in general, though some anecdotal evidence of gaps in coverage did surface. The duration of individual programmes was lower than that advised and the overall time taken for the full coverage did exceed the limits set in NCBF, but that can be attributed to the first-time effort and be adjusted in the future. The strategic issue pertinent here is that only a much-abbreviated orientation training was delivered, whereas the desired inputs in the first year after elections involves a whole set of orientative, foundational, perspective-development, and skill-building inputs. A strategic plan for systematic delivery of all the components was not developed, and therefore no practical estimate of the size, complexity, and temporal (and geographical) distribution of the tasks was made. The lack of a comprehensive CD plan is a major impediment in developing an appropriate CD design and delivery infrastructure and operational arrangements. While exact contents are dependent on state-specific adaptation to some extent, an interim mapping is definitely possible from NCBF. This is an urgent, and in many ways a foundational exercise as it will create full realization of the volume, diversity, and complexity of the tasks on the one hand and provide the template for visioning infrastructural, competency, and resource development on the other. Currently, both CD and infrastructural development efforts are incremental and based on past understanding and experiences (largely of RD training), without any full picture of what is to be aimed for—we cannot go anywhere if we only know where we are and not where we wish to go.
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GAP
: Lack of a comprehensive CD plan
Priority
: Very high
Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India