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The Effective Institutions Platform is one of eight initiatives that came out of the Busan High-Level Forum to take forward the commitments made in Busan. At the EIP meeting in Johannesburg (27-28 February 2013), LenCD members made several proposals for ways in which the network could support the Platform:
Support the Global Partnership help desk by providing advice and contacts on capacity development. The Global Partnership help desk is under development as a way of supporting organisations seeking to engage with post-Busan proceses. As a learning network, LenCD could...
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Although there is agreement that CD is a complex process, monitoring and evaluation systems often focus on capturing relatively easy to measure results for accountability purposes. A rigid focus on results can hinder and obstruct the CD process and be counterproductive in terms of development effectiveness, but ‘mixed approaches’ to M&E may offer the possibility of measuring both quantitative and qualitative results while also supporting learning.
Key traps and debates in monitoring and evaluating capacity development include a lack of clarity about whether M&E is...
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The importance of building coalitions of groups working towards common goals is frequently recognised, but coalition-building is a fundamentally endogenous process and it is far from clear how external participants can help. The literature discusses how coalitions work to support reform and change, but there is very little knowledge about how to build them.
Most coalitions in the development literature are characterised as ‘reform’ coalitions – groups of actors which have come together to push a reform agenda, usually but not always in areas of governance and...
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The importance of strengthening institutional capacity to deliver sustainable results is widely recognised, especially in today’s climate of shrinking resources where achieving and demonstrating results, ensuring value for money, and improving efficiency are top priorities for development organisations. Institutions considered underperforming must evolve to meet these challenges, but institutional change is a difficult problem, and the best way for capacity development practitioners to support change may not always be clear.
Please see the discussion paper Change Management for...
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As part of LenCD’s ongoing work on the results agenda, we are pleased to launch a call for submission of experiences with planning for and reporting on capacity development results.
Background
While there is consensus on the importance of results, particularly capacity development results, country governments face challenges in planning, managing, and reporting on them.
The results-based management (RBM) frameworks that are widely adopted in development practice and by country governments are most often founded on ‘hard’ results, such as the number of schools...
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In order to catalogue case stories and documents, we need ways to label them. For case stories in particular, it will be helpful to have a consistent way of labeling them to make it easier for people to find relevant or related cases. Here is a list of suggested sectors which we are now beginning to use. These are not exclusive; a case story may be tagged with multiple topics. Please leave comments below (or email brian@lencd.org) to share your ideas about the most helpful way to divide up the subject matter.
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What's included
Agriculture,...
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The Editorial Board of Capacity.org is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 43 of Capacity.org Journal, titled ‘Voices of Capacity Development’. It aims to make a practical contribution to the upcoming 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan by sharing the perspectives of a broad range of Southern leaders on how to support endogenous capacity development processes.
This issue builds on the observation that the concept of capacity development has not fully conquered the hearts and minds of a critical mass of policy makers and that there are even signs of “...
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In November 2011, the global community will meet in Busan, South Korea, to review progress on implementation of the Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action. Through the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness (WP-EFF), preparations are under way to take stock of progress made by donors and partner countries in implementation of joint commitments. To complement this effort, the OECD/DAC, in cooperation with the Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) and the Southern initiative CD Alliance, has launched a process to reflect on the specific commitments and implications...
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2011 Jenny Pearson
The study of capacity and the practice of capacity development are dynamic and ongoing processes. Capacity development is about change and transformation. It is primarily the responsibility of stakeholders in partner countries who must lead the process of change by setting their own development objectives within their political and governance systems. Ownership is, therefore, a prerequisite for sustainable capacity development, as is having clarity about whose capacities are to be developed and for what purpose.
The "mind map" below outlines the core concept of capacity development...
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2011
GETTING TO SUSTAINABLE RESULTS THAT MATTER
In March 2011, a group of Southern and development partners endorsed the Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development, which states that “capacity development is strategic for the achievement of development results”. Departing from this, the statement below, aims at contributing to the current efforts to enhance results-based management by stressing the link to the underlying capacity that makes results sustainable. This statement has been endorsed by capacity development practitioners, through a consultative process organized by the Learning...
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