Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development

Introduction

Capacity building is the process by which a country strengthens the institutions, skills, systems and resources it needs to convert natural resource wealth into lasting national development. For petroleum producing and energy exporting states, this is the defining challenge of the next two decades. Reserves alone do not create prosperity. What determines whether hydrocarbon revenues fund diversified, resilient economies, or are lost to weak institutions, skills shortages and short term decision making, is the capability of the ministries, regulators, national oil companies and operating partners that govern the sector.

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course examines capacity building from the perspective of the energy sector itself. It takes participants from the principles of capacity development and resource governance, through institutional diagnosis and organisation design, into national workforce and local content strategy, stakeholder engagement and ethics, and finally into financing, implementation and measurement. Throughout, the frameworks are applied to real conditions in producing states, including national content mandates, energy transition pressure on skills, revenue volatility and the growing expectation that operators demonstrate a credible contribution to national development.

Participants leave able to diagnose the capacity gaps in their own institution, prioritise and sequence a capacity development roadmap, and measure and communicate results to ministers, boards and partners.

This GLOMACS Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will highlight:

• How capacity building translates natural resource wealth into sustainable national development
• Recognised capacity development frameworks from UNDP, the OECD and the World Bank, applied to energy institutions
• Institutional capacity diagnosis across the enabling environment, the organisation and the individual
• National workforce, local content and in country value strategy, including ICV, IKTVA and comparable models
• Stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and the social licence to operate
• Financing, implementing and measuring capacity development programmes that survive political and price cycles

Objectives

At the end of this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course, you will be able to:

• Explain the relationship between resource governance, capacity building and national sustainable development, including the mechanisms behind the resource curse and how capable institutions avoid it
• Apply internationally recognised capacity development frameworks at the enabling environment, organisational and individual levels
• Conduct a structured capacity needs assessment and translate the findings into a prioritised, costed development plan
• Design workforce, competency, nationalisation and succession strategies aligned to national content requirements and to the energy transition
• Evaluate governance, accountability and transparency arrangements against standards such as the EITI and the Natural Resource Charter
• Build stakeholder engagement and community investment strategies that sustain the social licence to operate
• Construct KPIs, monitoring and evaluation frameworks and a business case that demonstrate the return on capacity investment

Training Methodology

This Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course uses a range of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention. Facilitated presentations are supported by structured group discussion, applied examples drawn from producing states across the Gulf, West Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and the North Sea, and guided individual reflection on the participant's own institutional context.

Delegates are encouraged to interact throughout, testing the frameworks presented against their own experience and drawing conclusions they can apply immediately on return to work.

Organisational Impact

Organisations sending delegates on this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will benefit through:

• A clear, evidence based picture of where institutional capacity is strong and where it constrains delivery
• Capacity development plans that are prioritised and costed rather than aspirational
• Stronger national workforce pipelines and more credible local content and in country value performance
• Improved governance, transparency and accountability, reducing regulatory and reputational exposure
• More effective engagement with government, regulators, partners, communities and international institutions
• The ability to demonstrate the contribution of capacity investment to national development objectives

Personal Impact

Delegates attending this Capacity Building for National Sustainable Development training course will benefit through:

• A practical command of the capacity development frameworks used by governments, donors and international institutions
• The ability to run a capacity needs assessment and defend its conclusions to senior stakeholders
• Greater confidence in designing competency frameworks, succession plans and nationalisation strategies
• Sharper judgement in ethical, governance and stakeholder situations that carry national consequences
• The skills to build and defend a business case for capacity investment
• A clear personal view of the capacity priorities in their own institution and how to sequence them