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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Donor Support to the Private Sector Can Work, says Kenyan Entrepreneur

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 17 December 2010

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 created a new Article | 10 December 2010

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 created a new Article | 8 December 2010

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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The Enabling Environment for Capacity Development

Nils Boesen uploaded a new Document | 8 December 2010

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This is a DRAFT perspectives note made for the OECD/DAC - it focuses on the political economy for CD, attempting to make PE approacehs more operational. The draft is currently circulating for comments in LENCD.

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capacity4dev.eu is Attending the EU Development Days

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 6 December 2010

The editorial team are showcasing the capacity4dev.eu site at this year’s European Development Days and conducting interviews with some of the development experts who will be attending from across the world.

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Technical and Economic Cooperation by Emerging Powers: More Actors on the Horizon

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 29 November 2010

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 created a new Article | 24 November 2010

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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Martin Mbonu commented on an article | 22 November 2010

Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

A more important achievement of EU water, sanitation and hygiene intervention in the rural communities in Nigeria, including Inyima community, is the total elimination of indiscriminate defecation in open fields and bushes in many of these villages. This has been achieved through Community-led...
EU-Funded Project "Walks with Communities" towards Democracy in Malawi

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 November 2010

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 created a new Article | 9 November 2010

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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