Organizational Capacity Building of Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s)
A Case of Nandi South District, Kenya
Abstract
Currently donors are moving away from funding physical projects to funding intangible projects
like capacity building, which are of great importance to the attainment of Sustainable
development. The attainment of these goals is dependent on the organizational capacities of Civil
Society Organizations (CSO’s) which in turn affect their performance. This study examines the
various forms of organizational capacities of CSO’s in Nandi South District, Kenya with a view
of explaining how capacity building influences their performance. The study was guided by
systems theory which stipulates that organizations should be treated as open systems which are
continually dependent upon and influenced by the environments in which they operate. The
findings of the study established that there are two forms of organisational capacity building;
resource and management. The study also established that most CSO’s are dependent on donor
funding and that is why they have a weak financial base and are not self sustaining. The study
recommends that CSO’s should diversify on their sources of funds to enable them be self
sustaining.
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