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Knowledge Sharing

This topic is about the broad notion of Capacity Development (CD) as a change process at the level of individuals, organisations and societies.It concerns the many ways of supporting capacities, like Technical Cooperation, working with Non States Actors, promoting multi-stakeholders processes and knowledge sharing.

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Good practices - Knowledge management - Knowledge sharing - Lesson learned and case studies

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  • From Technical Cooperation Reform to a Wider Capacity Development Perspective

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Three years after the launch of its reform of technical cooperation, the European Commission is now looking beyond technical cooperation at ways to support capacity development more consistently across all areas of development assistance.
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  • Capacity Development: Where Do EU Member States Stand on the Road to Busan?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    While all European donors do not regard Capacity Development with the same degree of priority, they have become increasingly aware of the importance of supporting it as a way to achieve lasting development results, according to a recent European Commission study.
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  • Culture For, and As Part of, Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    A nation’s cultural heritage is part and parcel of understanding a country and its people, according to Webber Ndoro Director of the African World Heritage Fund, who believes many development projects have suffered from lack of cultural awareness and understanding.
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  • Capacity Development and Results: Where Does Africa Stand?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    According to Frannie Leautier from the African Capacity Building Foundation, regular monitoring of capacity change in Africa could stimulate a lively debate on aid results and capacity in the run-up to Busan and beyond.
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  • Making University Relevant for the African Labour Market

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    If African countries are to develop, they need highly skilled local professionals, especially in core technologies. In Burkina Faso, the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) provides training that gives executives skills to meet key African economic development...
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  • Tax Reform in Jamaica: It’s All About Capacity Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Over the last ten years or so, the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica has implemented a broadly successful programme of tax reform, offering an interesting case study that stresses the importance of capacity development for long-term success.
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  • Linking Emergency and Development in Burkina Faso

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Thanks to a clever use of existing procedures, the European Union Delegation to Burkina Faso working in partnership with the government, successfully managed a seamless transition from an emergency intervention by the Commission’s humanitarian body, ECHO, to offering long-term support to more than...
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  • From Fragility to Agility: International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Government, donor and civil society representatives from over 40 countries recently gathered in Monrovia, the capital of post-conflict Liberia, to discuss how donors can support peacebuilding and statebuilding in conflict–affected and fragile states.
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  • Elections Bring Stability and Era of Renewed Cooperation

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Guinea recently emerged from decades of authoritarian government and a period of instability to hold, with strong support from the international community, the country’s first ever credible polls heralding a new beginning for one of the world’s poorest countries.
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  • Tax Reform and Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 6 May 2013
    Raising taxes is at the heart of nation-building. Nations cannot own their development processes if a great part of the efforts behind them is funded by external agencies. Moreover, as many donors now face increasing budget constraints, raising funds through taxation is more important than ever in...
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