LenCD Updates 6 July 2011
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LenCD Updates 6 July 2011
Learning Network on Capacity Development
Requests for participation
Call for stories on results and capacity development
Joint statement on results and capacity development
Classifying case stories
Aid effectiveness with a gender perspective
CD Insights
Strengthening district health systems in Karamoja
Zambia - Together We Win - Experience from Kaoma on School Self
Evaluation
Selected new learning publications
The Evaluation of the Paris Declaration
Capacity Development on Climate Change
Reviewing Project Results Retrospectively Using a Results-Focused Approach...
Capacity: the core concept
Requests for participation
Call for stories on results and capacity development
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results/document/call-stories-results-capacity-development
As part of our ongoing work on the results agenda, LenCD is pleased to launch a call for submission of stories on results and capacity development to provide evidence in support of our joint statement on results and CD, and which will be presented in Busan. Stories submitted by developing countries and partners that show how sustainable development results are premised on endogenous capacity development processes are considered critical to support the joint statement on results and CD and for bringing forward the CD agenda in Busan. Please see the guidelines for submission available on the LenCD web site and send your stories to alessandr...@undp.org by 26 July.
Joint statement on results and capacity development
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results
In March 2011, the Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development agreed that “capacity development is strategic for the achievement of development results”. Following on from this, a draft joint statement on results and capacity building has been developed by some of the members of LenCD with the objective of contributing to current efforts to enhance results-based management by stressing the link to the underlying capacity that makes results sustainable. All members of the Learning Network are invited to comment on the joint statement in order to help develop it into something that all members can support. Please share your thoughts on it by leaving a comment on the joint statement web page or posting a message in the discussion forum.
Classifying case stories
http://www.lencd.org/group/knowledge-management/document/cataloguing-case-stories-sectors
One of the ways that LenCD is working to bring together the knowledge and experience held in different locations across the network is by cataloguing case stories that have been collected by various efforts. To make this more effective, it will be helpful to have a consistent way of labelling and grouping them to make it easier for people to find relevant or related cases. We would like to invite network members to contribute their experience and views to help improve the classification scheme. Please visit the Working Group web page and leave comments on the web page or email Brian Lucas (br...@lencd.org).
Aid effectiveness with a gender perspective
http://www.un-instraw.org/aid-efectiveness/programme-page/
UN-Women has launched a project to collect experiences, research papers, country studies, tools, resources and capacity development documents on aid effectiveness and aid modalities related to gender. The programme is actively seeking submissions of publications related to aid effectiveness and gender to be included in a comprehensive database that they are compiling. Please see the project web page for more information, and if you have any recommendations for materials, please email Kerstin Maier, kersti...@unwomen.org.
CD Insights
Strengthening district health systems in Karamoja
http://www.capacity.org/capacity/opencms/en/topics/health-systems/strengthening-district-health-systems-in-karamoja.html
Doctors with Africa Cuamm is an Italian-based organisation that has been working on health issues in Africa since the 1950s. Through a partnership with UNICEF, Cuamm has supported district health systems in Karamoja in northern Uganda by providing technical advisors (experienced public health officers, usually medical doctors) to help build the capacity of district health teams. They paired up and worked with task officers on the district health teams to help impart essential skills, participate in technical planning committee meetings with the heads of district departments, and interact with the civil and political leadership of the district as well as with civil society. Through active participation in consultative bodies, the Cuamm advisors have fostered synergies between stakeholders which has led to clear improvements in the level of participation, more frequent and more productive meetings, and better service for the community. As a result of a more participatory planning process, innovative approaches are beginning to emerge. For example in Kotido district, the tetanus immunisation given to young women and girls was carried out at the Sunday church service. The Cuamm project shows that supporting district health officers and their teams in their capacity development helps them to improve the way they operate and give better health-service coverage to the people of Karamoja.
Zambia - Together We Win - Experience from Kaoma on School Self Evaluation
http://www.cop-mfdr-africa.org/profiles/blogs/zambia-together-we-win
In 2002, the government of Zambia introduced education reforms to decentralize decision making and resource allocation. However, community participation has remained weak and superficial. SNV Zambia engaged the Ministry of Education at all levels in order to strengthen the devolution process. In Kaoma District, SNV supported strengthening of school governance and management through the use of School Self Evaluation (SSE) – an approach to school governance and management through which stakeholders agree on school issues and priorities, define roles for each group and hold each other accountable. One of the key lessons from this initiative is that given opportunity and capacity support people can champion their own development. In this case, pupils and parents took responsibility to shape the learning outcomes that they desired for themselves. Equally important is that empowering stakeholders in the management of public affairs can increase the quality of services provided by public officials.
Selected new learning publications
The Evaluation of the Paris Declaration
http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3746,en_21571361_34047972_38242748_1_1_1_1,00.html
An independent evaluation of the effects of the Paris Declaration shows that it has proven relevant to many different countries and donors/agencies. All were already engaged in aid reforms before 2005, but to differing degrees. The Declaration has pulled together and focused global attention on ambitious, experience-based measures to improve development cooperation and aid. It addresses a range of problems that were 50 years in the making, and holds out a vision of much better conditions for aid and ultimately for development without aid. While recognising that the challenges could not all be rapidly resolved, it has focused on a very short, five-year time frame for measurable or visible improvements. Not all of these targets were realistic, or even reliably measurable, but the Evaluation finds that its principles and commitments have been applied, if gradually and unevenly, among partner countries and more unevenly among donors and agencies.
Capacity Development on Climate Change
http://www.fao.org/climatechange/learning/en/
FAO has launched a new web portal focusing on learning materials and sources for capacity development on climate change. The site contains FAO’s database of climate change related learning materials; integrated learning packages and training programmes offered by FAO; electronically supported training and learning tools related to climate change provided by FAO; an overview of climate change related events; and experiences from projects, with a major focus on capacity development on climate change.
Reviewing Project Results Retrospectively Using a Results-Focused Approach to Capacity Development
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/document/reviewing-project-results-retrospectively-using-results-focused-approach-capacity-developme
This guide describes how to apply the WBI Capacity Development and Results Framework for reviewing the results of existing or completed capacity development projects within the World Bank’s lending portfolio. The key concepts are broadly applicable to development projects.
Capacity: the core concept
http://www.lencd.org/group/learning-package/document/capacity-core-concept
This document, produced as part of the LenCD project to develop a learning package on capacity development, provides an outline of an overall framework describing the core concept of capacity development: a multidimensional, dynamic, and ongoing process of change and transformation involving multiple levels, types, and themes.
Please send announcements for next month’s Updates to br...@lencd.org.
Learning Network on Capacity Development
Requests for participation
Call for stories on results and capacity development
Joint statement on results and capacity development
Classifying case stories
Aid effectiveness with a gender perspective
CD Insights
Strengthening district health systems in Karamoja
Zambia - Together We Win - Experience from Kaoma on School Self
Evaluation
Selected new learning publications
The Evaluation of the Paris Declaration
Capacity Development on Climate Change
Reviewing Project Results Retrospectively Using a Results-Focused Approach...
Capacity: the core concept
Requests for participation
Call for stories on results and capacity development
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results/document/call-stories-results-capacity-development
As part of our ongoing work on the results agenda, LenCD is pleased to launch a call for submission of stories on results and capacity development to provide evidence in support of our joint statement on results and CD, and which will be presented in Busan. Stories submitted by developing countries and partners that show how sustainable development results are premised on endogenous capacity development processes are considered critical to support the joint statement on results and CD and for bringing forward the CD agenda in Busan. Please see the guidelines for submission available on the LenCD web site and send your stories to alessandr...@undp.org by 26 July.
Joint statement on results and capacity development
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results
In March 2011, the Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development agreed that “capacity development is strategic for the achievement of development results”. Following on from this, a draft joint statement on results and capacity building has been developed by some of the members of LenCD with the objective of contributing to current efforts to enhance results-based management by stressing the link to the underlying capacity that makes results sustainable. All members of the Learning Network are invited to comment on the joint statement in order to help develop it into something that all members can support. Please share your thoughts on it by leaving a comment on the joint statement web page or posting a message in the discussion forum.
Classifying case stories
http://www.lencd.org/group/knowledge-management/document/cataloguing-case-stories-sectors
One of the ways that LenCD is working to bring together the knowledge and experience held in different locations across the network is by cataloguing case stories that have been collected by various efforts. To make this more effective, it will be helpful to have a consistent way of labelling and grouping them to make it easier for people to find relevant or related cases. We would like to invite network members to contribute their experience and views to help improve the classification scheme. Please visit the Working Group web page and leave comments on the web page or email Brian Lucas (br...@lencd.org).
Aid effectiveness with a gender perspective
http://www.un-instraw.org/aid-efectiveness/programme-page/
UN-Women has launched a project to collect experiences, research papers, country studies, tools, resources and capacity development documents on aid effectiveness and aid modalities related to gender. The programme is actively seeking submissions of publications related to aid effectiveness and gender to be included in a comprehensive database that they are compiling. Please see the project web page for more information, and if you have any recommendations for materials, please email Kerstin Maier, kersti...@unwomen.org.
CD Insights
Strengthening district health systems in Karamoja
http://www.capacity.org/capacity/opencms/en/topics/health-systems/strengthening-district-health-systems-in-karamoja.html
Doctors with Africa Cuamm is an Italian-based organisation that has been working on health issues in Africa since the 1950s. Through a partnership with UNICEF, Cuamm has supported district health systems in Karamoja in northern Uganda by providing technical advisors (experienced public health officers, usually medical doctors) to help build the capacity of district health teams. They paired up and worked with task officers on the district health teams to help impart essential skills, participate in technical planning committee meetings with the heads of district departments, and interact with the civil and political leadership of the district as well as with civil society. Through active participation in consultative bodies, the Cuamm advisors have fostered synergies between stakeholders which has led to clear improvements in the level of participation, more frequent and more productive meetings, and better service for the community. As a result of a more participatory planning process, innovative approaches are beginning to emerge. For example in Kotido district, the tetanus immunisation given to young women and girls was carried out at the Sunday church service. The Cuamm project shows that supporting district health officers and their teams in their capacity development helps them to improve the way they operate and give better health-service coverage to the people of Karamoja.
Zambia - Together We Win - Experience from Kaoma on School Self Evaluation
http://www.cop-mfdr-africa.org/profiles/blogs/zambia-together-we-win
In 2002, the government of Zambia introduced education reforms to decentralize decision making and resource allocation. However, community participation has remained weak and superficial. SNV Zambia engaged the Ministry of Education at all levels in order to strengthen the devolution process. In Kaoma District, SNV supported strengthening of school governance and management through the use of School Self Evaluation (SSE) – an approach to school governance and management through which stakeholders agree on school issues and priorities, define roles for each group and hold each other accountable. One of the key lessons from this initiative is that given opportunity and capacity support people can champion their own development. In this case, pupils and parents took responsibility to shape the learning outcomes that they desired for themselves. Equally important is that empowering stakeholders in the management of public affairs can increase the quality of services provided by public officials.
Selected new learning publications
The Evaluation of the Paris Declaration
http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3746,en_21571361_34047972_38242748_1_1_1_1,00.html
An independent evaluation of the effects of the Paris Declaration shows that it has proven relevant to many different countries and donors/agencies. All were already engaged in aid reforms before 2005, but to differing degrees. The Declaration has pulled together and focused global attention on ambitious, experience-based measures to improve development cooperation and aid. It addresses a range of problems that were 50 years in the making, and holds out a vision of much better conditions for aid and ultimately for development without aid. While recognising that the challenges could not all be rapidly resolved, it has focused on a very short, five-year time frame for measurable or visible improvements. Not all of these targets were realistic, or even reliably measurable, but the Evaluation finds that its principles and commitments have been applied, if gradually and unevenly, among partner countries and more unevenly among donors and agencies.
Capacity Development on Climate Change
http://www.fao.org/climatechange/learning/en/
FAO has launched a new web portal focusing on learning materials and sources for capacity development on climate change. The site contains FAO’s database of climate change related learning materials; integrated learning packages and training programmes offered by FAO; electronically supported training and learning tools related to climate change provided by FAO; an overview of climate change related events; and experiences from projects, with a major focus on capacity development on climate change.
Reviewing Project Results Retrospectively Using a Results-Focused Approach to Capacity Development
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/document/reviewing-project-results-retrospectively-using-results-focused-approach-capacity-developme
This guide describes how to apply the WBI Capacity Development and Results Framework for reviewing the results of existing or completed capacity development projects within the World Bank’s lending portfolio. The key concepts are broadly applicable to development projects.
Capacity: the core concept
http://www.lencd.org/group/learning-package/document/capacity-core-concept
This document, produced as part of the LenCD project to develop a learning package on capacity development, provides an outline of an overall framework describing the core concept of capacity development: a multidimensional, dynamic, and ongoing process of change and transformation involving multiple levels, types, and themes.
Please send announcements for next month’s Updates to br...@lencd.org.
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