LenCD Updates May 2011
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LenCD Updates 31 May 2011
In this issue:
Requests for participation
- Study on strengthening ownership through capacity development
- Caribbean civil society consultation for Busan
- CD dialogues
CD Insights
- Local ownership in the health sector
Selected new publications
- What do partner countries want from Busan?
- A Review of Capacity Development Results Measurement in World Bank Projects
- Practitioner's Guide: Capacity Development for Environmental Sustainability
- Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development
Coming soon
- Getting to Sustainable Results that Matter
Requests for participation
CD Dialogues
http://www.lencd.org/files/notice/2011/Capacity_Development_Dialogues/Capacity_Development_Dialogues.doc
LenCD partners are promoting and supporting a series of country and regional CD Dialogues. These one-day events will engage country stakeholders and development partners in a dialogue on capacity development in relation to national or sub-national initiatives at the thematic or sectoral level, or wherever there is keen interest from country partners in moving towards a stronger focus on CD. The CD Dialogues will also be used to validate the Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to Action and to learn what actions are required at country level leading up to and beyond the High-Level Forum in Busan. The dialogues are expected to be initiated and
organized by LenCD partners, while UNDP will provide guidance and collect the results of the events. For more information about these events, please see the terms of reference available from www.lencd.org. Partners interested in taking the lead at the country level are invited to contact Alessandra Casazza (alessandr...@undp.org).
Study on strengthening stakeholder ownership through capacity development
http://capacitydevelopment.ning.com/profiles/blogs/stakeholder-ownership-what-it
WBI, in collaboration with Southern and Northern partners, has begun a study of how capacity development initiatives can enhance stakeholder ownership. The team is now undertaking a literature review to explore the current knowledge base, and will work with the CD community to collect and analyse case stories and other information to address knowledge gaps. Please watch for further announcements. The study team welcomes your input: please email Tommaso Balbo di Vinadio (tbalbod...@worldbank.org) or Nicola Smithers (nsmi...@worldbank.org).
Caribbean civil society consultation for Busan
The Reality of Aid network is planning a consultation workshop for civil society organisations in the Caribbean in preparation for HLF4 in Busan, and would like to make contact with CSOs in the region. If you work with a CSO in the Caribbean, they would like to hear from you. Please contact Nicole Benedicto at nbene...@realityofaid.org for more information.
CD Insights
Capacity development for local ownership in the health sector
http://www.psi.org/impact-magazine/2011/05/global-local
The global health community is tasked with delivering fast and effective development assistance to resource-poor countries, while also working to build the capacity within those countries to sustain improvements in health, education, human rights and other development indicators. For years, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have wrestled with finding the right balance between more direct implementation of program activities and longer-term goals of building local capacity to take on greater program responsibility. In the latest issue of PSI’s Impact magazine, Mark Goldberg gives an overview of how four international health organisations approach this question.
Selected new publications
What do partner countries want from Busan?
http://www.aideffectiveness.org/busanhlf4/en/home/41-busan-hlf4/442-busan-2011-your-priorities.html
An online consultation involving over sixty developing countries and 163 people provided insights into what the developing world wants and expects from the Busan HLF. Respondents felt quite strongly that HLF-4 should emphasise the Paris Declaration and AAA commitments and focus on high quality aid. Many respondents – particularly partner government officials – emphasized the need for accountability and action to implement existing commitments. Some see continued monitoring of efforts as an important element. Alignment, capacity development, managing for results and transparency were highlighted as particularly important areas of the aid effectiveness agenda to date. Civil society representatives stress the importance of deepening implementation of commitments on the role of civil society and the environments within which it operates in developing countries.
Practitioner's Guide: Capacity Development for Environmental Sustainability (UNDP)
http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/download/publication/?version=live&id=3229860
Capacity development and environmental sustainability are both central to UNDP’s mandate and programming. The purpose of this Practitioner’s Guide is to provide practical guidance to UNDP staff, partner countries and other development partners on the nature of environmental capacity and how to support capacity development for environmental sustainability. The guide builds on UNDP’s Practice Note on Capacity Development and Practice Note on Capacity Assessment and incorporates best practices from experience to date.
A Review of Capacity Development Results Measurement in World Bank Projects (World Bank Institute)
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/document/review-capacity-development-results-measurement-world-bank-projects-need-systematic-approac
This World Bank Institute (WBI) review of 194 World Bank operational projects reveals critical issues related to the measurement of capacity development results. It uncovered both potential strengths and shortcomings in current practice and also pointed out ways that results could be improved for future capacity development efforts. This report shares the main findings of the review, including common pitfalls in measuring results, current practices that are effective, and implications for the way forward.
Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development (Jenny Pearson / OECD)
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/training-and-beyond-seeking-better-practices-for-capacity-development_5kgf1nsnj8tf-en
Training has long been a central element of many CD and Technical Co-operation (TC) programmes, but studies have consistently shown that past practices have not been as effective as expected. Training is just one of many approaches that can contribute to CD; many agencies concerned with CD are now changing their focus to look beyond training to broader conceptions of, and approaches to, learning.
Coming soon
Getting to Sustainable Results that Matter
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results
Developing countries and development partners are increasingly focusing on results; however, with difficulties in balancing short and long term results, and in identifying the relevant level of results that logically follow from joined efforts of country and development partners. As the Busan High-Level Forum approaches, LenCD has launched a process which UNDP has offered to lead, which aims at demonstrating that sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development. Key results of this process will be: 1) a joint statement, endorsed by LenCD partners and presented in Busan, which makes explicit that meaningful, sustainable results require and follow from investments in capacity development; 2) a collection of short stories from different LenCD members, showing how sustainable results have followed from CD processes; 3) a number of dialogues with strategic country and development partners on sustainable results that derive from investments in capacity development. The joint statement will be shared with LenCD members for discussion, and a call for submission of stories on results and CD will be launched in June.
In this issue:
Requests for participation
- Study on strengthening ownership through capacity development
- Caribbean civil society consultation for Busan
- CD dialogues
CD Insights
- Local ownership in the health sector
Selected new publications
- What do partner countries want from Busan?
- A Review of Capacity Development Results Measurement in World Bank Projects
- Practitioner's Guide: Capacity Development for Environmental Sustainability
- Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development
Coming soon
- Getting to Sustainable Results that Matter
Requests for participation
CD Dialogues
http://www.lencd.org/files/notice/2011/Capacity_Development_Dialogues/Capacity_Development_Dialogues.doc
LenCD partners are promoting and supporting a series of country and regional CD Dialogues. These one-day events will engage country stakeholders and development partners in a dialogue on capacity development in relation to national or sub-national initiatives at the thematic or sectoral level, or wherever there is keen interest from country partners in moving towards a stronger focus on CD. The CD Dialogues will also be used to validate the Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to Action and to learn what actions are required at country level leading up to and beyond the High-Level Forum in Busan. The dialogues are expected to be initiated and
organized by LenCD partners, while UNDP will provide guidance and collect the results of the events. For more information about these events, please see the terms of reference available from www.lencd.org. Partners interested in taking the lead at the country level are invited to contact Alessandra Casazza (alessandr...@undp.org).
Study on strengthening stakeholder ownership through capacity development
http://capacitydevelopment.ning.com/profiles/blogs/stakeholder-ownership-what-it
WBI, in collaboration with Southern and Northern partners, has begun a study of how capacity development initiatives can enhance stakeholder ownership. The team is now undertaking a literature review to explore the current knowledge base, and will work with the CD community to collect and analyse case stories and other information to address knowledge gaps. Please watch for further announcements. The study team welcomes your input: please email Tommaso Balbo di Vinadio (tbalbod...@worldbank.org) or Nicola Smithers (nsmi...@worldbank.org).
Caribbean civil society consultation for Busan
The Reality of Aid network is planning a consultation workshop for civil society organisations in the Caribbean in preparation for HLF4 in Busan, and would like to make contact with CSOs in the region. If you work with a CSO in the Caribbean, they would like to hear from you. Please contact Nicole Benedicto at nbene...@realityofaid.org for more information.
CD Insights
Capacity development for local ownership in the health sector
http://www.psi.org/impact-magazine/2011/05/global-local
The global health community is tasked with delivering fast and effective development assistance to resource-poor countries, while also working to build the capacity within those countries to sustain improvements in health, education, human rights and other development indicators. For years, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have wrestled with finding the right balance between more direct implementation of program activities and longer-term goals of building local capacity to take on greater program responsibility. In the latest issue of PSI’s Impact magazine, Mark Goldberg gives an overview of how four international health organisations approach this question.
Selected new publications
What do partner countries want from Busan?
http://www.aideffectiveness.org/busanhlf4/en/home/41-busan-hlf4/442-busan-2011-your-priorities.html
An online consultation involving over sixty developing countries and 163 people provided insights into what the developing world wants and expects from the Busan HLF. Respondents felt quite strongly that HLF-4 should emphasise the Paris Declaration and AAA commitments and focus on high quality aid. Many respondents – particularly partner government officials – emphasized the need for accountability and action to implement existing commitments. Some see continued monitoring of efforts as an important element. Alignment, capacity development, managing for results and transparency were highlighted as particularly important areas of the aid effectiveness agenda to date. Civil society representatives stress the importance of deepening implementation of commitments on the role of civil society and the environments within which it operates in developing countries.
Practitioner's Guide: Capacity Development for Environmental Sustainability (UNDP)
http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/download/publication/?version=live&id=3229860
Capacity development and environmental sustainability are both central to UNDP’s mandate and programming. The purpose of this Practitioner’s Guide is to provide practical guidance to UNDP staff, partner countries and other development partners on the nature of environmental capacity and how to support capacity development for environmental sustainability. The guide builds on UNDP’s Practice Note on Capacity Development and Practice Note on Capacity Assessment and incorporates best practices from experience to date.
A Review of Capacity Development Results Measurement in World Bank Projects (World Bank Institute)
http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/document/review-capacity-development-results-measurement-world-bank-projects-need-systematic-approac
This World Bank Institute (WBI) review of 194 World Bank operational projects reveals critical issues related to the measurement of capacity development results. It uncovered both potential strengths and shortcomings in current practice and also pointed out ways that results could be improved for future capacity development efforts. This report shares the main findings of the review, including common pitfalls in measuring results, current practices that are effective, and implications for the way forward.
Training and Beyond: Seeking Better Practices for Capacity Development (Jenny Pearson / OECD)
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/training-and-beyond-seeking-better-practices-for-capacity-development_5kgf1nsnj8tf-en
Training has long been a central element of many CD and Technical Co-operation (TC) programmes, but studies have consistently shown that past practices have not been as effective as expected. Training is just one of many approaches that can contribute to CD; many agencies concerned with CD are now changing their focus to look beyond training to broader conceptions of, and approaches to, learning.
Coming soon
Getting to Sustainable Results that Matter
http://www.lencd.org/group/managing-capacity-results
Developing countries and development partners are increasingly focusing on results; however, with difficulties in balancing short and long term results, and in identifying the relevant level of results that logically follow from joined efforts of country and development partners. As the Busan High-Level Forum approaches, LenCD has launched a process which UNDP has offered to lead, which aims at demonstrating that sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development. Key results of this process will be: 1) a joint statement, endorsed by LenCD partners and presented in Busan, which makes explicit that meaningful, sustainable results require and follow from investments in capacity development; 2) a collection of short stories from different LenCD members, showing how sustainable results have followed from CD processes; 3) a number of dialogues with strategic country and development partners on sustainable results that derive from investments in capacity development. The joint statement will be shared with LenCD members for discussion, and a call for submission of stories on results and CD will be launched in June.
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