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  • The Reform of Technical Cooperation: Taming the Beast?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    When taking stock of the progress of the TC reform, some delegation staff complain that the reform imposes a heavy burden of new reporting obligations with little value added in terms of improving the quality of TC operations. Indeed it would be ironic if a reform that encourages greater engagement...
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  • Backbone Strategy Questions and Answers

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • First picture of the use of Technical Cooperation

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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...
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  • Bringing Technical Cooperation Down to Earth in Manila

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • Making Rwanda’s Joint Governance Assessment Sustainable

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • A First Ever: The Joint Governance Assessment in Rwanda

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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,...
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  • Governance Assessments: Do We Need More of Them?

    Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2013
    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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  • 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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