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Capacity Development in Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries

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  • Rita van Deuren

    (Rita van Deuren, PhD, Assistant Professor, Academic Coordinator MBM Programs, Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands. Contact: deuren@msm.nl)

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HEI in developing countries face the requirement to increase performance and improve results to enlarge their contribution to socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Organizational capacity is considered a pre-requisite for this performance. Organizational capacity is enhanced by capacity development processes and activities. This paper is about capacity development in higher education institutions (HEI) in developing countries. The introduction chapter of the paper first describes the objective of the paper and the method used to realize the objective. The chapter also includes a brief introduction on systems thinking, since concepts and ideas of systems thinking are frequently used in the paper. Finally, this chapter presents an outline of the paper.

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  • Rita van Deuren, 2013. "Capacity Development in Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries," Working Papers 2013/30, Maastricht School of Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:msm:wpaper:2013/30
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