SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING

Satope Bola Funmilayo

Economics Department, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences

Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State; Nigeria,

E-mail:  satopetito@yahoo.com

Abstract: Social science is an academic discipline concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world and examine society and how people interact and develop. Human Capacity Building is well related to Social Sciences because it is concerned with human aspect. This study therefore provides answers to the following questions using secondary data: What are we trying to achieve by engaging in human capacity building? How do we engage in human capacity building? And what is best practice design and delivery for human capacity building? The objectives of the study are thus to examine the goal of human capacity building, identify the processes involved and steps to be taken for proper human capacity building. This paper also provides the location of some sites for human capacity building in Nigeria. Human Capacity Building as a concept is related closely to education, training and human resource development and in addition, these efforts can be academic or non-academic in origin as well as formal or informal in nature. This is related to the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe and those located in Nigeria.