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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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  • View from India: When Technical Cooperation is not the Path to Capacity Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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 government demand.
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  • Quick Capacity Scanning, a Snapshot View

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
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  • School-focused Capacity Development in Nepal

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    What does it mean to have a sector wide plan for capacity development? And what does it take to make it? These were the key themes of a five day learning event for government and development partners from the education sector in Nepal. Nils Boesen, who facilitated the event, reports that the...
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  • The Reform of Technical Cooperation: Taming the Beast?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    When taking stock of the progress of the TC reform, some delegation staff complain that the reform imposes a heavy burden of new reporting obligations with little value added in terms of improving the quality of TC operations. Indeed it would be ironic if a reform that encourages greater engagement...
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  • Backbone Strategy Questions and Answers

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Find short answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Backbone Strategy for TC reform and the Guidelines here. The FAQs will be updated and amended regularly.
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  • First picture of the use of Technical Cooperation

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Early this year, as part of the so called External Assistance Management Report (EAMR), all delegations were asked to map their significant ongoing technical cooperation support and major features of Programme Implementation Units. A first summary of this mapping exercise has now been prepared. The...
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  • Bringing Technical Cooperation Down to Earth in Manila

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Over five days in May, the TC reform was presented, discussed, and brought "down to earth" in Manila in the Philippines. The EC Delegation had organised this first flexible learning and coaching process in close dialogue with the Brussels-based reform task team.
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  • Moving to Government-Managed Technical Assistance

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    In the present phase of EC support to the health sector in the Philippines, the commission contracts TA personnel. This will change in 2011 when the government will take charge of recruitment and management of TA. The radical reform of TA delivery, proposed by government and welcomed by the...
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  • Technical Assistants as Scouts for Donors – A Legitimate Function?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Donors are particularly concerned about three issues: 1) Will we get the agreed results? 2) Can we spend the amount of money we intended to spend? and 3) Will they be spent effectively and efficiently? Technical assistance is a classical way of minimising uncertainty and risks relating to these...
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  • The Role of Consultants in Public Finance Management Reform

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    To whom is a private sector consultant accountable, the donor paying their bill or the country to which they are providing technical assistance? Private sector consultants are widely used in managing and implementing Public Finance Management reform, yet questions of accountability, and consultants...
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