Touching base with the RISE networks � SciDev.Net’s Weblog

Touching base with the RISE networks � SciDev.Net’s Weblog: "Capacity building is a buzzword in African science policy circles, but we journalists have a hard time writing about it. A story may appear when a new initiative is launched; another if a promised result fails to materialise. But the slow bricklaying of most capacity-building programmes is difficult to fit into the cut-and-thrust of the news pages."