Capacity
Capacity is often used in an interchangeable way with Capability.
Contents
Definitions
European Definitions
ENTSO-E
ENTSOG
EU JRC
Other International Definitions
IAEA
Capacity is defined relative to a specific metric.
UNISDR/IPCC
National Definitions
Romania
Switzerland
United Kingdom (UK)
Standard Definition
ISO 22300:2012(en)
Note: Capacity can include physical, institutional, social, or economic means as well as skilled personnel or attributes such as leadership and management.
Other Definitions
CARICOM
Capacity may include infrastructure and physical means, institutions, societal coping abilities, as well as human knowledge, skills and collective attributes such as social relationships, leadership and management. Capacity also may be described as capability. Capacity assessment is a term for the process by which the capacity of a group is reviewed against desired goals, and the capacity gaps are identified for further action (UNISDR, 2009).
ICDRM/GWU
UNDP
Capacity development is defined as the process whereby people, organizations and society as a whole unleash, strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time.
Academic Studies
The Aspin Institute
Chaskin (2001)
See also
- Capability
- Civil Protection
- Crisis
- Emergency Management
- S. Merino, I. de los RÃos Carmenado, Capacity Building in Development Projects, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 46, 2012, Pages 960-967, ISSN 1877-0428 [23],[24]
Notes
- ↑ ENTSO-E Glossary of Terms
- ↑ ENTSOG Glossary of Terms
- ↑ Definition of an assessment framework for projects of common interest in the field of smart grids, 2014
- ↑ IAEA - Nuclear Security Series Glossary Version 1.3 (November 2015)
- ↑ 2009 UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction
- ↑ UNISDR glossary
- ↑ UNISDR glossary
- ↑ UNISDR glossary
- ↑ UNISDR glossary
- ↑ UNISDR glossary in Bahasa
- ↑ UNISDR glossary in Malay
- ↑ GLOSAR de termeni din domeniul ordinii şi siguranţei publice, MINISTERUL ADMINISTRAŢIEI ŞI INTERNELOR DIRECŢIA GENERALĂ ORGANIZARE, PLANIFICARE MISIUNI ŞI RESURSE
- ↑ Swiss Electricity Glossary
- ↑ Swissgrid glossary
- ↑ The National Adaptation Programme: Making the country resilient to a changing climate, UK Government (2013)
- ↑ OFGEM Glossary
- ↑ ISO 22300:2012(en) Societal security — Terminology
- ↑ Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Regional Comprehensive Disaster Management Strategy and Results Framework 2014-2024
- ↑ ICDRM/GWU Emergency Management Glossary of Terms. The Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM) at the George Washington University, Washington DC.
- ↑ How to Prepare an UNDAF: Part (II), UN Development Group
- ↑ MEASURING COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING, The Aspen Institute
- ↑ Chaskin (2001)
- ↑ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.231
- ↑ Article