To build capacity, build confidence

By Bruce Hewitson • 2015

The history of attempts to spread scientific know-how beyond western centres of excellence is littered with failures. Capacity building needs long-term commitment, a critical mass of trainees, and a supportive home environment. 

The global distribution of scientific expertise, and hence intellectually stimulating environments, is skewed. A less uneven playing field would be highly desirable — to help development, to provide greater scientific initiative and capacity in communities that currently lack it, and to ensure better representation of the developing world's perspectives in global science-based negotiations. However, like international aid programmes, scientific capacity building promises much and engenders hope; but it does not always deliver.

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To build capacity, build confidence