About Us
capacity4dev.eu
Connecting the Development Community
Capacity4dev.eu is a growing online community for development practitioners. This interactive platform was set up by EuropeAid to enhance knowledge through the exchange of practices on effective international cooperation. Capacity4dev.eu provides an open forum for commission staff, partner countries, other donors, researchers and civil society representatives to share ideas and expertise.
Capacity4dev.eu was originally set up to support a comprehensive reform, called the Backbone Strategy on "Reforming Technical Cooperation (TC) and Project Implementation Units (PIU)", launched in July 2008. The platform has since expanded to incorporate a host of topic areas relevant to the development community.
Some fundamental principles that led to that Technical Cooperation Reform remain central to the rationale of the new capacity4dev.eu, these include:
- promoting capacity development
- taking account of specific and broad context analysis
- adopting a results orientation
- promoting ownership
- working through harmonised and aligned action
- considering different and innovative options for the provision of development cooperation
The platform offers a magazine that keeps subscribers up to date on relevant developments pertaining to the work of EuropeAid and its partners. There is also a knowledge sharing section where topical issues and documents are presented and where public or closed groups can be set up to discuss issues, exchange experiences, or prepare for new initiatives.
The Coordination Team
Capacity4dev is managed by a Coordination Team that can help you to write something for the magazine or in uploading other contributions and provide tips and tricks on how to set up and moderate your groups. Most of the members of this team are also involved in other tasks, they are:
- Jan Ten-Bloemendal, Head of Unit B1 Quality of Delivery Systems
- Paul Riembault, Head of section Capacity Development (CD) in the B1 unit
- Maria Sancho, Quality Management Officer in the CD section
- Sarah Simpson and Jacquetta Hayes are both part time Senior Editor
- Christoforos Korakas, Development Manager
- Coralie Mugerin and Anca Robu share the "helpdesk" function
- Andrea Azevedo, stagiaire in the CD section until 30th July 2012
To contact a member of the Coordination Team, use the Contact Form.
What some of our users say about the benefits and advantages of capacity4dev.eu: