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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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  • Supporting African Think Tanks, a Smart Example of Capacity Development

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 April 2013
    African think tanks prove useful in researching, influencing, designing and implementing policies and can therefore be used by development practitioners in project cycles, said Dr Frannie Léautier, Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), a Zimbabwe-based organisation...
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  • Engaging with the Private Sector for Capacity Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Many donors have under explored the potential role of the private sector in encouraging development. A new report offers some conclusions on how the European Commission, and its staff in Delegations, could better work with the business community to achieve development.
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  • Donor Support to the Private Sector Can Work, says Kenyan Entrepreneur

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    A thriving private sector is essential to long-term sustainable development, but entrepreneurs in developing countries face numerous obstacles, not least accessing the finances to help them realise their business dreams. One successful entrepreneur from Kenya, Africa, states her case.
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  • Is Development Happening?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    The EU Development Days brought together thousands of development practitioners and policy makers from across the world in Brussels, Belgium, for two days of debate and discussion on the hot topics in their industry. We asked some of them: Is development happening?
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  • From Beneficiary to Donor: Broad Perspectives an Asset for Capacity Development

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Technical assistance plays a key part in projects backed by the European Development Fund (EDF). However, translating the needs of a beneficiary government can be challenging. We hear from Ram-Maria Ouedraogo who has experience of working on both sides of the aid partnership.
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  • Technical and Economic Cooperation by Emerging Powers: More Actors on the Horizon

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    While industrialised nations have traditionally taken the lead in coordinating development, emerging powers like South Africa, Brazil and India are increasingly assuming a role as providers of technical cooperation, too. Is this a welcome conversion? We’d like your views.
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  • Prioritising Support for Parliamentary Institutions

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    The Office for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy was created within the European Parliament in response to an increase in demand for support from new and emerging parliamentary democracies. Watch this video interview with OPPD director Dick Toornstra.
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  • EU-Funded Project "Walks with Communities" towards Democracy in Malawi

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Having managed to slip away briefly from her household chores, Joyce Mtenje sits at a wooden desk in a district resource centre in Malawi, flipping through the pages of “The Nation” newspaper. She's taking advantage of an EU-funded centre that's about to transform to a Malawian...
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  • Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea outbreak.
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  • Enhancing Institutional Capacity to Negotiate EU Association and Trade Agreements

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    A recent two day planning and knowledge exchange workshop to address institutional change gave a boost to the implementation of the Comprehensive Institution Building Programme, bringing together some 25 colleagues from EuropeAid headquarters and representatives from European Union delegations in...
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