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Capacity Building

Capacity Enhancement

Capacity involves the ability to generate knowledge on emerging medium-term horizontal issues within the federal government, the ability to detect and assimilate knowledge from external sources and the ability to use a wide variety of tools to address these issues.

Capacity enhancement includes:

• Collaborative exercises with selected groups (i.e., United States think-tanks, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)) to explore medium-term horizontal issues;
• Collaborative initiatives for the development of a Policy Research Community of Practice; and
• Enhanced research infrastructure through the Policy Research Data Group.