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  1. Enhancing Agricultural Performance – An Inside Job

    In Zambia, the European Commission is set to play a secondary role, supporting the government’s Performance Enhancement Programme in agriculture and livestock. The driving force of the programme is to come from the ministries themselves.
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    17 March 2010

  2. The Dutch and Danish Debate the Future of Aid

    Development assistance is once again the focus of intense debate. This time the discussion is in the Netherlands and Denmark, respectively, but the relevance of their deliberations goes beyond the borders of their two countries.
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    11 March 2010

  3. The Challenge of Being ‘Backbone-minded’

    How can we bring the principles of the Backbone Strategy on Technical Cooperation Reform into supporting infrastructure programmes? How can we be Backbone-minded? These were the themes of a recent internal session at EuropeAid headquarters. AIDCO Unit E7, which is in charge of quality assurance on transport, water, energy and urban development programmes, organised the internal session on how to bring The Backbone Strategy into daily operations.
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    11 March 2010

  4. Champagne for 1000th Member

    Capacity4dev has reached another milestone. Our 1,000th subscriber, Luca Pitrone, signed up this week, winning a bottle of champagne. Mr Pitrone, a secretary in AIDCO's unit E6 (Natural Resources), expects to use capacity4dev daily. “It’s like Facebook, but for work purposes,” said Mr Pitrone. “It’s good that we have it available.”
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    4 March 2010

  5. Learning About South South Cooperation

    A call for case studies detailing effective south-south cooperation in practice, launched by the Task Team on South-South Cooperation, has generated wide interest.
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    4 March 2010

  6. TC Reform in the European Neighbourhood

    Marcus Cornaro, who heads the Directorate for the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument, wants to see Technical Cooperation reform integrated at every stage of the project cycle in the European neighbourhood. To achieve this, twinning arrangements with experts from the civil service in European Member states with neighbouring partners has proved to be a key means of transferring know-how and best practice in the region, he said in an interview with capacity4dev.eu.
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    1 March 2010