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  1. Backbone Strategy Questions and Answers

    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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    15 July 2009

  2. First picture of the use of Technical Cooperation

    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 mapping exercise is summarised in five findings:
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    15 July 2009

  3. Bringing Technical Cooperation Down to Earth in Manila

    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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    15 July 2009

  4. Moving to Government-Managed Technical Assistance

    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 delegation, poses a huge challenge to both parties who have to turn agreed reform principles into practice.
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  5. Technical Assistants as Scouts for Donors – A Legitimate Function?

    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 issues.
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    15 July 2009

  7. Making Rwanda’s Joint Governance Assessment Sustainable

    Anastase Shyaka heads the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council, which functions as the secretariat to the Joint Governance Assessment process, and provides advice to both government and other interested partners.
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  8. A First Ever: The Joint Governance Assessment in Rwanda

    Rwanda has broken the mould and shown that a partner country can take the lead in assessing the quality of its governance, producing a Joint Governance Assessment Report in September 2008. In the process, the Rwandan government consulted with multiple donors, attracted qualified consultants, designed a methodology, ignored or integrated existing global and domestically produced assessments and indicators and cooperated and discussed with multiple state and non-state actors
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    14 July 2009

  9. Governance Assessments: Do We Need More of Them?

    Donors face strong incentives to undertake their own assessment of the governance situation in partner countries, with various objectives responding to different needs. Still, quite often, there is space for better coordination.
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    14 July 2009

  10. The Role of Consultants in Public Finance Management Reform

    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' role in influencing the reform agenda is under examined. 
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    14 July 2009

  12. A Backbone for Improved Technical Cooperation in Mozambique

    The impact of Technical cooperation (TC) delivery in Mozambique is unsatisfactory and strategic and coordinated planning of TC is urgent required. This, in a nutshell, is the general consensus that came out of a series of meetings attended in March 2009 by Ms Manzitti, with EC Delegation staff, EU Member States and represtative of the government of Mozambique.
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    14 July 2009

  13. Getting Capacity Assessment Right

    It may seem straightforward to prepare Terms of Reference for an assessment of the capacity of an organisation or a group of organisations. But actually it is not that simple. Good TOR must, among other things, provide clear indications of why the assessment is made, who will make it and how and when they'll do this.
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    10 July 2009

  14. Technical Cooperation reform: News from the ground

    The Backbone Strategy takes different forms depending on the country context. EC Delegations play a leading role, with Headquarters support, in the dialogue with partners about technical cooperation. Read here news from the ground extracted from mission reports and other briefs. Mission reports:  
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    9 July 2009

  15. Milestone documents in the preparation of the Backbone Strategy

    The preparation of the Backbone Strategy included comprehensive consultations with EC Delegations and EU Member States. Different reviews of on the different procedures used when providing technical cooperation were also prepared. 1. Court of Auditors Report on "The effectiveness of TA in the context of capacity development"
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    9 July 2009

  16. Internal Meetings Minutes and Working Documents

    You'll find here internal documents related to EC technical cooperation reform such as minutes of the Steering Committee meetings, working tools, reports, etc; which will help you follow the implementation of the Backbone Strategy. Minutes of Steering Committee Meetings:
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    9 July 2009

  18. The Backbone Strategy: Core Documents

    The Backbone Strategy on "Reforming Technical Cooperation and Project Implementation Units" for External Aid Provided by the European Commission and its workplan starting in October 2009: This key policy document presents EuropeAid's strategy to reform TC and PIU.
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    9 July 2009