A cross sectional based study was conducted in district Swabi to explore the capacity building in the purview of village support organization. A sample size of 384 beneficiaries was selected randomly for data collection through structured questionnaire technique. Further the data was coded into SPSS for analysis i.e., associational test. The study found that VSOs arrange capacity building training, providing micro-credit facilities for marginalized people, enhance the local community literacy skills and make them able to deal with small financial transaction with corroboration of promoting existing abilities and capabilities within the study area. In addition, the study further explored that VSOs provides microfinance skills for communal empowerment and identification of the strength and gaps where capacity enhancement required for community members as per their needs. However, VSOs are up to some extent failed to bring social change in the rural pattern of thinking, behaving, and attitudes by the virtue of capacity building training along with lag in encouraging the inhabitants to participate in problems solving activities. Consequently, in order to overcome these obstacles, the organization must devote resources to this endeavor on an ongoing basis, despite the existence of other, seemingly more pressing concerns.

Keywords: Capacity Building; Village Support Organization; Micro-credit facilities; Communal Empowerment; Chi-square Test; Swabi-Pakistan