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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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  • 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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  • A Backbone for Improved Technical Cooperation in Mozambique

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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...
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  • Getting Capacity Assessment Right

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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...
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  • Technical Cooperation reform: News from the ground

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • Milestone documents in the preparation of the Backbone Strategy

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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...
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  • Internal Meetings Minutes and Working Documents

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • Who is Who in the EC Technical Cooperation Reform

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    The implementation of the Backbone Strategy and its work plan is supported by:
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  • The Backbone Strategy: Core Documents

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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