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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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  • Change Management!

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 2 July 2010
    Change management is, strangely enough, rather a new discipline in development cooperation. However, it is absolutely crucial for capacity development – and there are tools to help.
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  • Capacity Development Stocktaking: Change Readiness

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 2 July 2010
    How can partners address capacity development and what can you do to support them in the early stages of such processes? This is a key issue that underlies all European Commission efforts towards sustainability of development and aid effectiveness.
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  • Mapping the Demand - and Supply Side

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 1 July 2010
    Who are actually pressing for performance from public organisations? Who are overseeing them, and to whom are they accountable? The Toolkit for Capacity Development has a handy tool for mapping sector and governance actors.
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  • The Nettle of Civil Service Reform - and 'Topping-up'

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 25 June 2010
    Sierra Leone has come a long way since the brutal civil war ended in 1999, and donors have played a vital role in this progress. But donor approaches to technical assistance, implementation units and topping-up schemes could end up doing some harm, writes Nils Boesen after a Technical Cooperation...
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  • Political Economy and Stakeholder Analysis

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 15 June 2010
    We always talk about the importance of the context. But how do you analyse the drivers and constraints, and map – with some specificity – the actors and their interests?
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  • Nils Boesen commented on an article | 8 June 2010

    Zambia: TC Reform on the Rocks?

    Thank you for your comment! I think that one of our problems is that we produce reports more for accountability purposes than for learning purposes. And we - the TC, or the donor staff - tend to accumulate the learning, rather than the partners. Again reflecting that in far too many cases, it is "...
  • Werner Willeke commented on an article | 7 June 2010

    Zambia: TC Reform on the Rocks?

    Nils, being a development consultant since 1996 I fully agree to your statements but want to add something to it. You say "Recognise that field staff are doing development work, not (supposedly less worthwhile) administrative work." And I fully agree. But I also have a question to it. When I work...

  • A Path for Many Small Steps Forward

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 28 May 2010
    The Vietnamese government wants to include capacity development in their socio-economic planning. But what does that mean? Nils Boesen, who facilitated a recent in-country event, reports.
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  • Maciek Jastrzebiec-pyszynski commented on an article | 20 May 2010

    An Ambitious Restructuring of the German TC Landscape

    Very interesting article! I have a strange feeling that the creation of External Action Service has many similarities with the German 'merger'. But I think the big question is that those working in development field are not the only guys who have impact on development. And until we change our '...

  • An Ambitious Restructuring of the German TC Landscape

    Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 7 May 2010
    German Development Minister Dirk Niebel’s recently announced plans for a major reform of the country’s development institutions have been welcomed by international development organisations as well as inside Germany.
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