As such the SAMINVET capacity building model aims to support practitioners to develop skills and competencies which underpin these strategies. The manual identifies key activities which should be carried out as part of best practice under each of the tactics listed in the Methodological Handbook. These activities have then been matched against skills and competences which will be developed by carrying out the activities.

The guide then suggests where these identified skills fit in with EU key competency framework as well as other common key competencies, and makes suggestions about activity which can support the practitioner to develop the skills and competences further.