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The new Capacity4dev: A brief virtual tour

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Welcome to the very first Capacity4dev tutorial where our Community Manager gives a brief overview of the new Capacity4dev platform, the online hub for development professionals!

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Capacity development
Learning
+4
Communicating Development Cooperation
Awareness raising
Communication
Visibility
#ExploreCapacity4dev - Welcome to our new platform

Welcome to our new platform!

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Video

It’s finally here! We are thrilled to unveil the brand new Capacity4dev, the European Commission's premier online knowledge sharing platform for international cooperation and development.

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Capacity development
Learning
+5
Awareness raising
Communication
Visibility
Social media
Communicating Development Cooperation
Presentation of Capacity4dev

Discover what you can do on Capacity4dev

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Voices & Views

Who Capacity4dev is for and how can it be helpful for me ?

Worldwide
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Knowledge Management
Learning

Virtual classroom key takeaways

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DEVCO 04 organised its first virtual training in April 2020. The topic of this online event was “Logical Framework Approach and Indicators”, and it was a real success. Evaluations demonstrated that participants felt engaged...

Worldwide
Knowledge Management
Lesson learned and case studies
Learning
+2
Monitoring & Evaluation
Evaluation methods and tools

Our most popular stories of 2018

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Voices & Views

Capacity4dev’s objective is to connect the development community. But while a lot of the activity on our platform happens in groups and communities of practice, did you know that we also have our very own magazine?

Communicating Development Cooperation
Awareness raising
Knowledge Management
+3
Knowledge sharing
Lesson learned and case studies
Learning

Developing Financial Management Capacity in South African Municipalities – A Basis for Local Development

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Voices & Views

When you think about development challenges, a lack of trained accountants might not immediately come to mind. Yet poor public sector financial management is often at the root of patchy service delivery in other sectors, from...

Africa
South Africa
Budget support
Capacity Development
Economics & Public Finance
+3
Knowledge Management
Learning
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Tanzania: New Resistant Coffee Varieties Developed with EU Support

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Voices & Views

As soon as the seedlings are ready for planting, women in brightly coloured clothes wrapped at the waist load the new disease resistant varieties of coffee seedlings into the back of a truck. Developed at the Tanzania Coffee...

Africa
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Capacity Development
Fisheries
+2
Knowledge Management
Learning

City Partnerships Tackle Global Problems

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Voices & Views

The Dutch city of Utrecht wanted to plant a new forest as a contribution to the global environment. Trouble was, it didn’t have the space.

Americas & the Caribbean
Bolivia
Nicaragua
+3
Europe
Germany
Netherlands
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
Learning
+1
Urban Development

Views from the Field: In conversation with the EU Ambassador to South Africa

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Voices & Views

Last October, Marcus Cornaro left the Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) to take up a new post as Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to South Africa. In this interview he shares some...

Africa
South Africa
Capacity Development
Development Policy
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning

Debating New Approaches to Learning for Development

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Development institutions are learning new ways to share knowledge. The traditional hierarchical model of training, in which information is passed down from teacher to student, or donor to recipient, is not always the most...

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
Learning