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Capacity Development

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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Backbone strategy - Capacity development - Change management - technical cooperation reform

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  • Good Public Services Depend on Strong Demand

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    For Antoine Sawadogo, President of Citizenship Laboratory and former Ministry of Territorial Administration in Burkina Faso, building the capacity of local actors is a prerequisite for successful decentralisation in West Africa. It also implies enhancing users' capacity to formulate demand for...
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  • Donors Need Capacity Building, Too

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    For Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of international charity ActionAid, building capacity doesn’t just mean teaching and enabling partners to do things better. It also means addressing donors’ capabilities and in particular, donors’ capacity to understand their partners’ abilities and listen to their...
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  • I do? You do? We do?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Who should call meetings, lead capacity assessments or mobilise consultants and monitor their progress? Get help to find the right answer to these questions and more in another tool from the Toolkit for Capacity Development.
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  • Quality Support Reviews Produce Early Lessons

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Since January, European Commission Delegations have been required to complete Quality Assessment Grids in addition to Action Fiches for technical cooperation support operations in the QSG process. The first samples arriving for review at headquarters offer some interesting lessons on the ongoing TC...
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  • EC Transport Sector Support gets an Overhaul

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Decades of international donor support to the transport sector in Chad have targeted the national transport network, but the government remains dependent on external technical assistance.
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  • Zambia: TC Reform on the Rocks?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Making technical cooperation more effective cannot be separated from making all Commission support effective and this requires profound changes in how EuropeAid operates, writes Nils Boesen after an intense and productive learning event about technical cooperation in Lusaka, Zambia.
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  • Assessing Organisational Capacity

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    What should an assessment of organisation capacity look at? There is no right answer – those involved have to decide for themselves. But here is a tool to help you do precisely that.
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  • Les Lignes directrices sur la réforme de la CT désormais en français

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    Publiées et utilisées dans leur version anglaise depuis quelques mois, les lignes directrices de la "Pour une coopération technique plus efficace" sont désormais disponibles en français.
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  • The Backbone Strategy and In-Country Partners

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    What does the European Commission’s reform of technical cooperation mean for in-country partners? This digested paper offers some guidance.
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  • Enhancing Agricultural Performance – An Inside Job

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    In Zambia, the European Commission is set to play a secondary role, supporting the government’s Performance Enhancement Programme in agriculture and livestock. The driving force of the programme is to come from the ministries themselves.
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