Resources and Reviews

Inward facing processes include study groups, apprenticeship of new team members including courses/field immersions for them, and facilitation of informal interactions etc. Many of the processes of capacity building at Vikramshila have involved relatively finer aspects of organizational culture, such as learning how to keep the teacher at the center and a foundational reflexivity. For Vikramshila, building one’s capacities as a member of its team also means successfully internalizing these values and then having the ability to translate these in the field.

Website: http://www.vikramshila.org/

Vikramshila Video Playlist: https://youtu.be/9FyUOi6rGkE

In Conclusion

Capacity refers to both an individual’s ability as well as an organization’s or a team’s bandwidth to do something. It can be something concrete and measurable. It can also be something subtle, intangible and impossible to measure. Capacity building processes need to be seen as unfolding over long time horizons and sometimes can be seen only in conjunction with other aspects of organizational culture. Building our abilities meaningfully to contribute effectively to teaching learning processes entails asking the following questions continuously – what are we here for, and what is it that we want to achieve.

This article is taken from an issue (1.11) of Samuhik Pahal that focuses on the theme of Capacity Building. You may want to read more articles on this topic here.