Capacity building
- Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform
- M. Whiteside / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
- Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for s...
- How Bad Governance Impedes Poverty Alleviation in Bangladesh
- R. Sobhan / OECD Development Centre, 1998
- In 1995/96, 47.5 per cent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. While this represents a decline compared to 62.6 per cent in 1983/84, the absolute number of poor people has in fact increased over th...
- The roles of Chinese economists in economic reform
- Fang Cai / National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1998
- Before economic reform, economists rarely played any important roles in the decision-making process of China’s economy. This paper discusses the change of roles and professional capacity building of the Chinese economists in resp...
- Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects
- L. Frigenti; A. Harth; R. Huque / Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998
- The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. This review, "Local Solutions to Regional Problems : The Growth of Social Fund...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- Capacity Building: A New Way of Doing Business for Development Assistance Organizations
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 1999
- The paper provides an overview of challenges faced by development assistance agencies as they seek to adopt a "capacity building" perspective. It explores the roots of those challenges and describes approaches to addressing them.
- Tool to guide donor agencies in making a self-assessment of their progress in implementing partnership and capacity development principles
- Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999
- Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impa...
- Framework for thinking about capacity development and how to assess this through the use of indicators.
- P. Morgan / Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997
- Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve. These have to do with learning and adapting, forming productive relationships both inside and outside the organization, being able to recruit a...
- Which of the Indian states are best at implementiung policy reform?
- N. Bajpai; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms. Greater decentralization of decisi...
- Contribution of LAMP to increased productivity in natural resource use in a sustainable way
- K.J. Havnevik; M. Rwegangira; A. Anders Tivell / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
- Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts: broader change processes development thinking comparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented in ...
- Lessons from Africa's Social Funds and Public Works and Employment Projects
- L. Frigenti; A. Harth; R. Huque / Africa Region Findings, World Bank, 1998
- The concept of creating autonomous or semi-autonomous entities to implement small-scale projects more efficiently has spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. This review, "Local Solutions to Regional Problems : The Growth of Social Fund...
- Insights from the District Development Project, Uganda
- United Nations Capital Development Fund, 1999
- District Development Project (DDP) Pilot was set up to support the efforts of Ugandans to eradicate poverty in rural areas through improved inclusiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in the delivery of public goods an...
- Capacity Building: A New Way of Doing Business for Development Assistance Organizations
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 1999
- The paper provides an overview of challenges faced by development assistance agencies as they seek to adopt a "capacity building" perspective. It explores the roots of those challenges and describes approaches to addressing them.
- Tool to guide donor agencies in making a self-assessment of their progress in implementing partnership and capacity development principles
- Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999
- Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impa...
- Framework for thinking about capacity development and how to assess this through the use of indicators.
- P. Morgan / Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997
- Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve. These have to do with learning and adapting, forming productive relationships both inside and outside the organization, being able to recruit a...
- Which of the Indian states are best at implementiung policy reform?
- N. Bajpai; J.D. Sachs / Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999
- The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms. Greater decentralization of decisi...
- Contribution of LAMP to increased productivity in natural resource use in a sustainable way
- K.J. Havnevik; M. Rwegangira; A. Anders Tivell / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
- Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts: broader change processes development thinking comparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented in ...
- Assessing the potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development by understanding current information practices and needs
- R. Duncombe; R. Heeks / Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999
- The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises. Paper reports fin...
- When Accountability Fails: A Framework for Diagnosis and Action
- M. Schacter / Institute on Governance, 2000
- Paper targeted at development assistance agencies involved in supporting the strengthening of public-sector accountability. It proposes a simple analytical framework that is intended to help understand relationships bet...
- Strengthening National Capacity for HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning
- D. Cohen / HIV and Development Programme, UNDP, 1998
- Strategic Planning is essential for a effective response to the epidemic. UNDP has extensive experience and long involvement in the strengthening of national planning capacity in all operational regions. As such it is essential that U...
- European Capacity Building Initiative (ecbi)
- Organisation that provides capacity building to support climate change negotiations
- Three Cs
- Six evaluation studies set up to explore and assess the role played by the Maastricht Treaty precepts, coordination, complementarity and coherence (3Cs), in the European Union's development co-operation policies and operations; and determine how far these have been applied in practice and with what impact.
- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo
Centre of UNDP's work in Asia and the Pacific
