A Dynamic Approach for Capabilities Development
The Dynamic Capabilities Approach (DCA) is a 4-phases approach intended to provide guidance on how to plan, monitor and evaluate Capacity Development processes in a given sector. It is an approach that has been used in more developed countries, by the private sector and large public organisations around the world to enable the achievement of their strategic plans and build momentum in their development. The DCA also bases its findings on a case study undertook in the transport sector in Ghana. Extracts are also completed by the presentation that experts R. Le Blanc and P. Beaulieu offered to the EuropeAid colleagues in January 2014.
The DCA is, according to the experts R. Le Blanc and P. Beaulieu, a strategic approach to the logic that is needed to transform political demands and policies (in the form of development objectives through national plans) into realistic frameworks for the transformation of organizational abilities, key-assets and required empowerments into the goods and services provided by the State enable to generate the required outcomes and impact.
This approach brings the emphasis on the dynamics of the inter-relations of structuring factors in business ecosystems (systems of activities dedicated to client-systems). Dynamic capabilities development is based on key assumptions related to effectiveness of organisations and systems: capability development is a core mandate for managers, capabilities are not static, they are based on accountability and engagement for performance and development impacts.
To know more, visit the sections on the conceptual framework, the phases of the DCA or the Q&A session.