Knowledge Sharing

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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Good practices - Knowledge management - Knowledge sharing - Lesson learned and case studies

Supporting the Capacity of Guinea’s Artisanal Fishing Communities

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 November 2011

Traditional fishing is an important source of economic activity in the impoverished West African nation of Guinea, where the European Commission's Food Facility has undertaken a project to boost the sector through awareness, training and provision of better equipment.

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National Qualification Framework in Tajikistan: Learning by Sharing

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 November 2011

The European Training Foundation is supporting a reform of vocational education and training in Tajikistan that offers an interesting case study, stressing the importance of knowledge sharing for long-term capacity development.

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Taking Account of Context and Opportunity for Better Capacity Development

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 11 November 2011

Understanding the local context in a developing country can significantly help effective development planning. But Professor Enzo Caputo recommends going one step further and embracing the ‘Opportunity Framework’ for more effective Capacity Development, as he explained at a recent event in Brussels.

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Agenda for Change: Partners Debate EC Proposals for a New and Improved EU Development Policy

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 4 November 2011

The European Union’s Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, recently presented an ‘Agenda for Change’; designed to increase the impact of EU development policy and introduce a new approach on EU budget support.

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Government Ownership Key to Successful EU Support to the Philippines

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 2 November 2011

The European Commission’s experience in the Philippines in recent years has been marked by strong country ownership of development programming and implementation. This hands-on approach has proved to be a decisive factor in achieving effective aid interventions and could offer lessons for other...

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Smart Procurement for More Effective Aid

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 27 October 2011

More aid contracts being won locally could boost development and job creation in partner countries, according to a new report by the European Network on Debt and Development, Eurodad.

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Gareth Williams commented on information | 17 October 2011

The Political Economy of the Roads Sector in Uganda

In my opinion this is a particularly important study because it focuses centrally on the problem of identifying what is the potential space for reform and how donors can work with this. David Booth has himself said that political economy analysis has too often been a “dismal science of constraints...

Group: Political Economy in Practice
The Political Economy of the Roads Sector in Uganda

Gareth Williams posted Information | 17 October 2011

This 20 minute presentation covers the main findings of a study of the political economy of the roads sector in Uganda conducted by David Booth and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi for DFID in 2008. This took place in the context of reforms to the sector including the establishment of a semi-autonomous...

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Group: Political Economy in Practice
G20 Report on Knowledge Sharing - now available

Nils-Sjard Schulz updated the Information | 14 October 2011

In June this year, a group of countries and international organizations, in charge of the Knowledge Sharing Pillar of the G20 Development Working Group, submitted an in-depth report on how to scale up knowledge sharing as an effective and distinctive tool for development, complementing financial...

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Group: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation
Towards Better Capacity Development: Learning from the Private Sector

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 14 October 2011

Could development professionals at the European Commission improve their efforts in developing capacity by drawing some lessons from experiences in the private sector? Consultants Paul Beaulieu and Robert LeBlanc, think they could.

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