Skip to main content

Articles

The Capacity4dev editorial team regularly publishes knowledge pieces on external cooperation (projects and policies), featuring development professionals sharing good practices, with operational insight.

Featured

Biodiversity day
Article
Ambassadors' Blog Post

On International Day for Biological Diversity, our Capacity4dev Ambassador Enrique Andrés del Castillo shares his insights on the crucial role of youth activism in ensuring the future of biodiversity and ecosystems.

Worldwide
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Children and Youth
Climate change & disaster risks
+1
Environment & green economy

Filters

Article types
Results (10)

Empoderando a niños y jóvenes en América Latina y el Caribe

Article
Voices & Views

El mundo celebra el aniversario de la Declaración de los Derechos del Niño adoptada el 20 de noviembre de 1959 por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. Aunque una de cada tres personas en todo el mundo es un menor, la...

Americas & the Caribbean
Argentina
Bolivia
+17
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Children and Youth
Civil Society
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Empowering children and youth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Article
Voices & Views

The world celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Children’s Rights adopted on 20 November 1959 by the UN General Assembly. Although one in three people worldwide is a minor, most societies still undervalue the opinion of...

Americas & the Caribbean
Argentina
Bolivia
+17
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Children and Youth
Civil Society
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Promoting sustainable production and consumption in Latin America

Article
Voices & Views

Unsustainable consumption and production patterns are at the heart of the triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Environmental degradation has become even more evident during the COVID-19...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
+1
Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector

Promoción de la producción y el consumo sostenibles en América Latina

Article
Voices & Views

Los patrones de consumo y de producción no sostenibles se encuentran en el centro de la triple crisis planetaria: cambio climático, pérdida de biodiversidad y contaminación La degradación medioambiental se ha vuelto aún más...

Americas & the Caribbean
Colombia
Costa Rica
+1
Mexico
Climate change & disaster risks
Environment & green economy
Private Sector
EUROsociAL+

Violencia de género en el contexto Covid-19: buenas prácticas de la cooperación entre la UE y América Latina

Article
Voices & Views

Durante la pandemia COVID-19, la necesidad de intercambiar experiencias en la respuesta a las violencias de género en el actual contexto de aislamiento social se ha hecho evidente. Las instituciones gubernamentales de América...

Americas & the Caribbean
Argentina
Chile
+5
Peru
Costa Rica
Guatemala
Mexico
Europe
Gender

Cocoa, an unsavoury sweet? Workshop identifies best practices to eliminate child labour in cocoa production

Article
Voices & Views

In March, the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) organised a workshop to assess progress and share practices and challenges to eradicating child labour from cocoa...

Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Children and Youth
Child labour
Youth employment, skills and entrepreneurship
+2
Employment & VET
Human Rights

Migration management: One year on from the launch of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection & Reintegration

Article
Voices & Views

With over 3,500 migrants rescued from the desert and 15,000 assisted in returning home from dire situations across the Central Mediterranean routes, the first year of the EU-IOM joint initiative has yielded substantive results...

Africa
Libya
Burkina Faso
+12
Côte d'Ivoire
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Cameroon
Chad
Humanitarian Aid
Protection
Relief co-ordination, protection and support services
+7
Migration & Forced Displacement
Smuggling of Migrants & Trafficking in human beings
Legal pathways
Migration dialogues
Migration policy
Refugees
South-South migration

Europe’s priceless know-how on social protection and employment

Article
Voices & Views

Most countries can finance some kind of social safety net through domestic resources, according to Belgian deputy prime minister and minister for development Alexander De Croo. But he says developing nations often lack the...

Africa
Côte d'Ivoire
Americas & the Caribbean
+3
Mexico
Asia
Azerbaijan
Capacity Development
Social Protection and Inclusion
Defining social protection programmes
+1
Social Protection policies

South-South Cooperation – Another Way of Sharing Knowledge

Article
Voices & Views

Attendants of a high level conference "Organising Inclusive Ownership" which took place in Brussels in May heard of the success stories of a Dutch financed South-South Cooperation programme between Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica.

Africa
Benin
Americas & the Caribbean
+3
Costa Rica
Asia
Bhutan
Agriculture & Rural Development
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
+6
Civil Society
Fisheries
Knowledge Management
Learning
Private Sector
Trade & Economic Integration

Organic Pineapples and Edible Insects: All Part of a Three-way South-South Initiative

Article
Voices & Views

Benin, Bhutan and Costa Rica have come together under a programme of South-South cooperation, sharing skills and knowledge on agriculture, environmental issues and much more, using funds from the Netherlands.

Africa
Benin
Americas & the Caribbean
+3
Costa Rica
Asia
Bhutan
Agriculture & Rural Development
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
+1
Knowledge Management