Capacity Development and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Advancing the Resource-Based Argument.

The efficiency or otherwise of an organization and the competitive operations of getting thing done in the way and manner in which they were designed for the achievement of a set objective cannot be achieved without effective capacity development.Human capital development gives hope for the transformation of our institutional and individual components as well as the society in general from what it was to what it should be.The human capital is hereby entrusted with more challenging responsibilities and in it lies the centrality of the process of development, its capacity must be built on constant basis.This paper used survey research as a grand design, examined the human quality response to capacity building techniques in Nigeria, and used questionnaire to extract response from the respondents.The result of the analysis reveals that, the process of human capital development and capacity building in Nigeria faces allot of challenges ranging from institutional to environmental ones among others and concludes that improvement of human capital as a strategy of improving service quality or delivery of same, requires very solid institutional, statutory and economic base(s).It is therefore recommended that stewardship function and improved management support system should be incorporated in the activities of organizations through which human capital development, effective capacity building will combine to expedite positive adjustment in the character of services delivered as well as nature of clients and stakeholders` satisfaction.