Capacity building sector specific
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- Tackling the mines and explosive remnants of war in Iraq
- ( United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
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The magnitude of Iraq’s problem with mine and unexploded remnants of war together with the socio-economic impact needs to be determined and addressed as a matter of urgency. As a recent signa...
- Tools and methodologies for monitoring and evaluating agriculture and rural development
- ( B. Hall (ed);N. Okidegbe;T. Marchant;et al / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core i...
- Evaluating technical assistance to post-conflict countries
- ( A. Burgi-Schmelz (ed) / International Monetary Fund , 2009)
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This evaluation of technical assistance (TA) in statistics covers two post-conflict countries, namely, Mozambique and Rwanda during the period 2000–08. The evaluation is based on missions to ...
- Unlocking Africa’s clean energy potential
- ( C. de Gouvello;F., B. Dayo;M. Thioye / The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit , 2008)
- This study aims to evaluate sub-Saharan Africa’s potential for clean energy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. It also looks at the technical opportuniti...
Carbon financing and carbon market processes: a guide for Indigenous communities
- ( I. Barnsley / Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University, , 2008)
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Greenhouse gas abatement activities can have both beneficial and detrimental impacts on the communities in which they operate. For this reason, it is vital that Indigenous communities have accurate...
- Can better information improve emergency response?
- ( Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity , 2007)
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This report presents the assessment findings of the Interagency Working Group (IWG) collaborative capacity-building effort. The assessment includes the field perspectives of IWG emergency operation...
Enhancing southern capacity: does the rhetoric match the reality?
- ( M. Couldrey (ed);T. Morris (ed) / Forced Migration Review , 2007)
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Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern...
- Can donors supporrt environmental objectives General Budget Support?
- ( N. Bird; L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2007)
- This paper examines how environmental objectives are pursued by donors in a context where aid delivery mechanisms are changing. It cites General Budget Support (GBS) as an example of an increasingly ...
- Strengthening institutional mechanisms for early warning systems a priority for African food security
- ( J. Tefft; M. McGuire; N. Maunder / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2006)
- Prepared for the African Union, this report evaluates national and regional early warning systems (EWS) across Africa. It reveals that these systems have generally been effective in alerting countries...
- Increased spending on HIV and AIDS has not come at the expense of funding for other areas
- ( E. Lief; J. Antonio Izazola-Lice / Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington , 2006)
- Produced as a background paper to inform the conference, ‘Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership on HIV and AIDS’, this issue brief presents a preliminary analysis of HIV and AIDS financing in developing c...
