capacity4dev

This Reference Document provides guidance and practical recommendations on the five steps of the capacity development (CD) cycle: (i) engage with stakeholders; (ii) assess capacity assets and needs; (iii) formulate capacity development responses; (iv) implement capacity development responses; and (v) evaluate change in capacity, and ensure sustained national capacity development. The document also analyses the different principles, approaches and strategies of development assistance and aid modalities deployed by the members of the DeLoG, and provides a collection of good practices and lessons learnt by development partners in enhancing capacities for effective local governance and decentralization through research and analysis of empirical evidence and knowledge base.

This note discusses how donor assistance to support decentralization and subnational governments to achieve the MDGs can be better aligned with official government policy and the activities of other development partners. 

This note was prepared by the Development Partners Working Group on Decentralization and Local Governance in occasion of the Global Forum on Local Development organised by UNCDF in October 2010 in Kampala.

This presentation comprises the history of local government, an introduction to the Development Partners Working Group on Local Governance and Decentralisation (DeLOG), and DeLOG’s guiding principles for enhancing alignment and harmonisation.

The general guiding principles reflect a consensual approach on how the DeLOG can translate lessons learned and perspectives put forth by previous studies into joint action on alignment and harmonisation initiatives that can enhance aid effectiveness in the field of DLG.