This document discusses capacity building and knowledge creation in organizations. It defines capacity building as developing skills, abilities, and resources to help organizations adapt and thrive. Capacity building can occur at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. It is important for innovation, efficiency, effectiveness, stability, and survival. However, capacity building does not happen naturally and requires recognizing needs, strategies, and investing time and money. Knowledge is at the base of capacity building and exists in both formal and informal ways. It can be created through participation and reification using a knowledge spiral process of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization. For educational institutions, knowledge creation can occur through curriculum reforms, continued learning opportunities, knowledge services, dynamic

1. Knowledge Creation: An Institutional Capacity
Building Instrument

2. Capacity Building
process of developing and strengthening
the skills, instincts, abilities, processes
and resources that organizations and
communities need to survive, adapt, and
thrive in the fast-changing world.
(Ann Philbin, Capacity Building in Social Justice Organizations
Ford Foundation, 1996)

3. Capacity Building (contd.)
Activities which strengthen the knowledge,
abilities, skills and behaviour of individuals
and improve institutional structures and
processes such that the organization can
efficiently meet its mission and goals in a
sustainable way.

4. Levels of capacity Building
• Individual level- It also calls for the establishment of
conditions that will allow individuals to engage in the
“process of learning and adapting to change”
• Institutional level- It should not involve creating new
institutions, rather modernizing existing institutions
and supporting them in forming sound policies,
organizational structures, and effective methods of
management and revenue control.
• Societal level- support the establishment of a more
“interactive public administration that learns equally
from its actions and from feedback it receives from the
population at large.”

5. Impact of Capacity Building

6. Why is organizational capacity Building
important?
Eternity
Innovation
Efficiency &
Effectiveness
Stability
Survival

7. Why Doesn’t Capacity Building Happen Naturally?
• Need Recognition
• Unaware of Options/ Resources
• Strategy Lack
• Unrealistic Expectations
• Time and Money Investment
Knowledge at the base of Capacity Building

8. Dual Nature of Knowledge
• Formal & Informal
• Transitive Knowledge & resource Knowledge
• Know how & know what
• Soft & Hard
• Autopoietic & representative
• Participation & Reification
• Tacit & Explicit

9. Complementary Forms

10. Participation & Reification

11. Knowledge Spiral (Nonaka 1991)

12. Knowledge Spiral another Look
(Nonaka etal 1995)

13. Knowledge Spiral in Capacity Building
Needs
• Knowledge Base
– Database, software, records, domestic research
codification, delivery and verification system, MIS
and the like.
• Knowledgeable People
– Willing to learn, Experiment, Take risk, Explore
knowledge avenues, Research patiently, Innovate
and the like

14. Operation of Knowledge creation in
Educational Institutions
Through
• Curricular Reforms
• Continued Learning and encouragement to
learning ventures
• Domestic Knowledge services: creation and
active involvement
• Dynamic and Static Knowledge bank
• Transparency and accountability

15. Thesis
आ नौ भद्राः कृ तवो यन्तु ववश्वताः
LET NOBLE THOUGHTS(KNOWLEDGE)
COME TO US FROM ALL SIDES.

16. Thanks For Kind Attention
Grover Vijay K
D A V College of Education,
Abohar (Punjab)
grovervijayk@gmail.com