"Capacity development is a vague concept that is used to justify specific reforms that have real ramifications at the international, and also at the project level," explained doctoral student Stefan Roch. He went on to explain that the World Bank and other donor organizations define capacity development in a very particular way – one that encompasses a number of contradictory aims. "They insist, for example, that capacity development be ongoing, and yet there must be defined outcomes," he said.
