LenCD Updates April 2011
Brian Lucas
LenCD Updates April 2011
Network
news
New LenCD web site launched
Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to Action
Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness launched
CD
Insights
Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange (KACE): Linking Small-Scale
Farmers to National and Regional Markets
Requests
for comments
Messages for Busan
Cairo Consensus - From concepts to implementation
Capacity: on the brink of maturity?
FAO seeks translators for learning module on capacity development:
New
publications and resources
Triangular cooperation: towards horizontal partnerships, but how?
Deepening Participation and Enhancing Aid Effectiveness through
Media and ICTs
Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness
4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness official web site
Evaluation
of capacity-building impacts of Belgian NGO Partnerships
Network news
New
LenCD web site launched
http://www.lencd.org
At February’s LenCD Partners Meeting in Kigali, it was decided that one of our priorities was to build a new web site to support better communication and coordination across the network. We are pleased to report that the new site is now available for use at www.lencd.org. It is intended to be more community oriented and to support active communication and participation rather than being just a platform for publishing. An important part of the site is the working groups area that supports collaboration on projects. Like all web sites, this one is still a work in progress, so please leave comments and suggestions in the forum. As network members, your ideas are important!
Cairo
Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to
Action
http://lencd.org/event/2011/cairo-workshop-capacity-development-concepts-implementation
The Cairo Workshop on Capacity Development: from Concepts to Implementation was held in Cairo, Egypt, on 28-29 March 2011. Participants reviewed progress and shortcomings since Accra, particularly focusing on challenges faced in making the concept and key principles of capacity development more operational. The meeting produced a Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to Action calling for a demand-driven, results-focused, and country-owned approach building on existing capacity. The LenCD web site features blog entries by Tony Land, Myriam Escallon, Heather Baser, and Nils Boesen with first-hand impressions of the workshop.
Africa
Platform for Development Effectiveness
launched
http://www.africa-platform.org
The
new Africa Platform on Development Effectiveness (APDev) web site was
launched on 27 March. APDev is a continent-wide physical and virtual
multi-stakeholder forum endorsed by the African Union to mobilize
policy makers and practitioners to engage on strategies to achieve
sustainable development results. It brings consultation, coordination
and a common voice to Africa's development perspectives, strategies
and policies focusing on capacity development, aid effectiveness and
south-south cooperation.
CD Insights
Kenya Agricultural
Commodity Exchange (KACE): Linking Small-Scale Farmers to National
and Regional
Markets
http://cases.growinginclusivemarkets.org/documents/118
The
Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange is the first and only national
agricultural commodity exchange in Kenya. It empowers rural farmers
with market information and provides capacity enhancement, business
training and technical assistance. Prior to the formation of KACE,
small scale farmers lacked access to mainstream markets for
agricultural produce, leaving them vulnerable to the forces of the
market, as well as to exploitation by country buyers. In addition to
this, for any one crop, the marketing chain consists of multiple
middlemen, each taking a margin at every stage between producer and
consumer and to have a competitive final price the small scale farmer
bears the losses. The main activities of KACE include linking farmers
and mainstream buyers by collecting information on the prices in
different markets of various commodities on a daily basis from market
vendors then availing them to the farmers in real time. Modern
information communication technology (ICT) makes this possible
through mobile phone handsets and personal computers. Trades are made
through competitive bids and offers, once a buyer and a seller agree
to trade, KACE acts as a clearing house and arranges the financial
and logistical aspects of the sale thus giving the farmers options as
well as bargaining power.
Requests for comments
Messages
for Busan: 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. The LenCD community has been
compiling draft policy messages for Busan and seeks your help in
sharpening these messages:
http://www.lencd.org/group/busan/document/messages-busan.
Cairo
Consensus - From concepts to implementation: The Cairo Consensus
reached a few weeks ago shows that capacity development is a matter
of fundamental importance to development effectiveness, but what are
we actually signing up to? What should we invest in and prioritize?
http://www.lencd.org/blog/tony-land/2011/04/14/cairo-concepts-implementation
Capacity:
on the brink of maturity? SNV and The Broker invite you to
participate in an online discussion about capacity development. The
online debate allows you to share your opinion on ‘capacity
development’ as a core element in development efforts and aims to
highlight advances and challenges to both the theory and practice of
CD.
http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Online-discussions/Blogs/Capacity-on-the-brink-of-maturity
FAO
seeks translators for learning module on capacity development:
FAO is looking for partners and/or individuals to translate its
Learning Module on Capacity Development from English into French and
Spanish. The module, 53 pages long, is the first of a series of four
modules that will be developed between 2011-2012 as part of FAO's
internal Learning Programme on Capacity Development. For further
information, contact Cecilia...@fao.org.
New publications and resources
Triangular cooperation: towards horizontal partnerships, but how? This workshop gathered practitioners and policy-makers predominantly from the Asian region to discuss, on the basis of emerging evidence, triangular cooperation as a tool for promoting horizontal partnerships. http://www.a4des.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=65&Itemid=89
Deepening Participation and Enhancing Aid Effectiveness through Media and ICTs- A Practical Manual Translating Lessons Learned into Daily Practice: This SDC discussion paper argues that the divide between 'modern ICTs' and 'old media' no longer presents difficulties and that a mix of old and new technologies offers a range of advantages to foster interactivity and participation, and is an effective approach to enable poor populations to take part in decision-making processes. http://www.ansa-africa.net/index.php/views/news_view/deepening_participation_and_improving_aid_effectiveness_through_media_and_i/
Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness: The CSO Strategy Meeting gathered more than 80 participants from Open Forum and BetterAid in Sweden in March to coordinate CSO demands and strategies in the process leading up to HLF-4 in Busan. Documents, presentations, reports and outcomes of the meeting are available at http://www.cso-effectiveness.org/-CSO-Strategy-Meeting-.html
4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness official web site is now available. Around 2000 international delegates are expected to review global progress in improving the impact and value for money of development aid and make new commitments to ensure aid reduces poverty and make lives better. Information for participants is now available and online registration will be available soon. http://www.aideffectiveness.org/busanhlf4
Evaluation of capacity-building impacts of Belgian NGO Partnerships: This study utilized several emerging frameworks to assess capacity development and interventions, and identified patterns in how the capacity development approach of the NGOs is affected by their perspectives of what development is or should be. http://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/binaries/evaluation_ngo_partner_relations_capacity_building_tcm312-112949.pdf