When Capacity-Building Fails: the Case of the North Sea Region Programme
Author
Leong, Isabella Marie
Term
4. term
Publication year
2021
Pages
27
Abstract
This project examines why a capacity-building initiative failed in an Interreg programme. Capacity-building refers to efforts that strengthen skills, processes, and collaboration. The study uses a critical realist approach, which looks for deeper causes behind what we observe, and a retroductive method, reasoning backwards from outcomes to identify likely mechanisms. Data were collected through interviews and document review. Starting from two working hypotheses, the research uncovered underlying causal mechanisms and offered recommendations to the organisation to help future capacity-building activities achieve better results.
Dette projekt undersøger, hvorfor et kapacitetsopbyggende initiativ mislykkedes i et Interreg-program. Kapacitetsopbygning betyder indsatser, der styrker kompetencer, processer og samarbejde. Projektet anvender en kritisk realistisk tilgang, som søger de dybere årsager bag det, vi observerer, og en retroduktiv metode, hvor man ræsonnerer baglæns fra resultater for at identificere sandsynlige mekanismer. Data blev indsamlet gennem interviews og dokumentgennemgang. Med udgangspunkt i to arbejdshypoteser blev underliggende årsagsmekanismer afdækket, og der blev formuleret anbefalinger til organisationen for at sikre, at fremtidige kapacitetsopbyggende aktiviteter giver bedre resultater.
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