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  Knowledge for development [KfD] strategy, FY 2004-2008

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2004

  This new knowledge management policy aims to synthesize knowledge sharing activities and resources already in use, while laying a strong foundation on which to build a truly cross-cutting, agency-wide Knowledge for Development capability. Activities planned over 2004-6 include: Communities of Practice (CoPs): Informal groups (organized around specific Agency functions, roles or topics
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  Current state of the art in impact assessment: with a special view on small enterprise development

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This guide, published by SDC, aims at providing some best practice guidelines for those undertaking impact assessment with particular reference to the field of small enterprise development (SED).The guide:runs through some of the general issues concerning impact assessmentoutlines the evolution of various common methods and approaches developed and discussed particularly for SED and
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  Immersions for policy and personal change: reflection and learning for development professionals

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  Senior staff in aid agencies are involved in daily decisions about policy and practice which have direct impact on the lives of poor people.
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  If relationships matter, how can they be improved?: learning about relationships in development

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  It is now widely accepted, particularly in the private sector, that organisational learning improves performance. This paper explores the observation that much learning is done in the person-to person and organisation-to-organisation relationships that make up the daily course of development work.
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  Participatory learning groups in an aid bureaucracy

  Participation Group, IDS, 2004

  This paper narrates the process of establishing and running two participatory learning groups in the Swedish official development agency, Sida: one in the Stockholm headquarters, and one in the Embassy of Sweden in Nairobi.
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  The partnering toolbook

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2004

  This booklet provides an overview and guidelines for practitioners on building partnerships with other organisations involved in development.Topics discussed include:obstacles to partneringkey principles of establishing partnershipsassessing risks and rewards of partnerships for each organisationresource mappingpartnering agreementsgovernance and accountability
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  Learning in partnerships

  British Overseas NGOs for Development, 2004

  This paper aims to highlight some fundamental issues in learning and partnerships, in order to enable development practitioners to feel more confident about taking simple and practical steps towards becoming better learners, as organisations and in partnerships.Increasingly, NGOs are looking seriously at opportunities for learning in their work.
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  Independent evaluation of the influence of SDC’s human rights and rule of law guidance documents

  Research and Policy in Development, ODI, 2004

  What impact do policy documents have on practice? How can policy guidance be made more effective? Relatively little is known amongst international donors about the key factors that affect how policy guidance can affect practice.
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  Creating a financial bridge to the private sector

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' describes several approaches to building a financial bridge between the private sector and community development initiatives.
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  Raising resources from international foundations

  Global Philanthropy and Foundation Building, Synergos Institute, 2000

  This chapter from the book 'Foundation building sourcebook: a practitioners guide based on experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America' discusses how two local foundations have raised resources from international foundations.

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