Why revisit capacity development objectives now?
Capacity development has featured in many FAO and donor initiatives for some time now. However a special focus on human capacity development is important now, partly because of an increasing number of new approaches to fisheries management, and partly because of changes in the international development context driven by the only partial success of many previous development initiatives and the realization of the key role that capacity development must play in supporting sustainable development. This means that attempts to discuss more appropriate methods, and develop models of approaches, must consider both a) what are the new requirements that are so particular to recent developments, and b) why have previous human capacity development initiatives not been more successful, and what needs to be changed to make them more so. Some key aspects of the changing emphasis of donor assistance and the development context in response to these problems, have been: • global trends in approaches to
