As movie theatres close down across West Africa a new European Commission funded project aims to bring the movies to audiences with the help of...
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January 31 2011 by Coordination Team
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Do you have a story to tell, a project you'd like to highlight? If so, here are some simple but effective knowledge sharing ideas.
As a member of capacity4dev.eu you are part of a 2,500-strong community of development professionals. We'd like remind our members that they...
Article relevant to the topics: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform
November 9 2010 by Coordination Team
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When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea outbreak.
Three years on, Inyima, in Nigeria’s Cross...
Article relevant to the topics: Agriculture & Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness and Results, Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform, Health, Water & Sanitation
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October 28 2010 by Coordination Team
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While a massive body of water separates Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo, there’s not an ocean of difference between them in terms of the scale of the governance challenges facing their education sectors.
Still, while both countries share education systems with very...
Article relevant to the topics: Aid Effectiveness and Results, Children, Crisis Situations, Education, Governance & Civil Society
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November 5 2010 by Coordination Team
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Engaging with the world’s lawmakers is a new, expanding and crucial field for European Commission staffers working on democracy assistance. That was the message heard by dozens of participants at a recent pilot workshop on supporting parliaments around the globe.
“Parliamentary...
Article relevant to the topics: Aid Effectiveness and Results, Democracy, Governance & Civil Society
October 2 2009 by Coordination Team
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Capacity development and sustainable results are the key objectives of all European Commission assistance to partner countries, but traditional technical cooperation is not the default route for getting there. In India, the EC delegation found an alternative way to respond to...
Article relevant to the topics: Aid Effectiveness and Results, Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform, Children, Education
February 1 2011 by Coordination Team
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The European Union is the world's largest provider of development assistance. To improve how those resources are administered, the Commission's development arm, EuropeAid Development and Cooperation Directorate General, is encouraging knowledge sharing and training of its...
Article relevant to the topics: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform
February 11 2011 by Coordination Team
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Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica have come together under a programme of South-South cooperation, sharing skills and knowledge on agriculture, environmental issues and much more, using funds from the Netherlands.
From their Costa Rican counterparts, Beninese farmers have learned how...
Article relevant to the topics: Agriculture & Rural Development, Aid Effectiveness and Results, Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform, Environment & Climate Change
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November 18 2010 by Coordination Team
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Having managed to slip away briefly from her household chores, Joyce Mtenje sits at a wooden desk in a district resource centre in Malawi, flipping through the pages of “The Nation” newspaper.
Like citizens across this southern African nation, the 21-year old is taking advantage...
Article relevant to the topics: Aid Effectiveness and Results, Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform, Democracy, Education, Gender, Governance & Civil Society
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May 27 2009 by Coordination Team
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Donors struggle to translate policies on governance to practical actions in the field. One promising avenue for improvement leads donors to pay more careful attention to governance in sectors. To help in this journey, EuropeAid has developed and published a guidance tool for its...
Article relevant to the topics: Education, Governance & Civil Society, Health, Migration & Asylum, Transport, Water & Sanitation
May 26 2009 by Coordination Team
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For almost two decades, a collapsed government and battling warlords have made Somalia a byword for anarchy. But as three European Commission representatives have found, a flexible and innovative approach to development can still reap results in this most difficult of...
Article relevant to the topics: Aid Effectiveness and Results, Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation Reform, Crisis Situations, Education, Water & Sanitation
