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Capacity Development After Accra: A Fashion with a Future?
(Oct 03 2010)
The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) mentions capacity development (CD) not less than 16 times. So CD certainly succeeded in securing a strong position on the agenda. But how do all these words get turned into action?
Well-orchestrated lobby work may pay off. That was at least what happened for the "...
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Donor Approaches to Capacity Development: What We Are Learning
(Oct 03 2010)
The Secretariat of OECD's Development and Assistance Committee has drawn up an inventory of existing approaches to capacity development among its member countries and multilateral donors.
The inventory is a useful tool for comparing donors' capacity development policies, how those policies are put...
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Capacity Development: Links and Tools
(Oct 03 2010)
Search the web for capacity development (CD) tools and methodologies and you are likely to find hundreds or even thousands of references, particularly if you include "organisational development" in your search. So how can one find a way through this jungle of material? The platform www.Capacity4Dev...
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Joint Learning Events on Capacity Development
(Oct 03 2010)
With the support of the Learning Network for Capacity Development www.lencd.org, sector-specific in-country learning events are now offered for donors and partners. The events are carefully tailored to demand and aim to produce learning outcomes and specific action proposals that stakeholders can...
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Technical Cooperation Reform is a Culture Change
(Oct 03 2010)
Interview to Koos Richelle
The European Commission is taking a lead role in championing a results-driven reform of technical cooperation. In a video interview to mark the launch of the new www.Capacity4Dev.eu platform, Koos Richelle, Director General of the Commission's development arm,...
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Southern Voice Welcomes Technical Cooperation Reform
(Oct 03 2010)
Measures to reform how the European Commission delivers aid by rethinking approaches to technical cooperation, have been welcomed by a leading Southern representative in Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel-Malek, recently appointed as co-chair of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness in the...
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Welcome to www.Capacity4Dev.eu
(Oct 03 2010)
EuropeAid's new open platform for more effective technical cooperation aims at becoming an indispensable tool for development practitioners, says Wojciech Lubowiecki, head of the editorial team of the platform, in this welcome note.
Welcome to www.Capacity4Dev.eu !
EuropeAid, the implementing...
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Somalia: Making Gains in a Fragile Environment
(May 14 2012)
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 environments.
A new Somali...
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Why State Building is not working in DR Congo
(Oct 03 2010)
At a recent debate at the European Commission's EuropeAid headquarters, Theodore Trefon, who is also a contributor and editor of the 2005 book, "Reinventing Order in the Congo", sparked a lively debate with his hard-hitting assessment of donor short-comings in Africa's largest nation.
In his 13 May...
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Public Administration Reform in Morocco
(Oct 03 2010)
The government of Morocco is engaged in an ambitious programme of public sector reform. Some eight years into the programme, experience shows that such reform is time consuming and requires cross-ministerial support and robust regulation to be successful, writes Pierre Hennebert, E4 EuropeAid in a...
