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

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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.

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

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Promoting LGBTIQ Rights in India

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Voices & Views

In various parts of the world, LGBTIQ people experience serious rights violations and abuses. As of today, 70 States continue to criminalise same-sex consensual relationships. The COVID-19 crisis has only exacerbated such...

Asia
India
Gender
Human Rights
Justice & rule of law

Views from the Field: Q&A with Johann Hesse, EU Head of Cooperation in India & Bhutan

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Voices & Views

EU bilateral assistance to India is being completed, but cooperation continues on many levels, as Johann Hesse outlines. In this wide-ranging interview the Head of EU Cooperation reflects on lessons learned and the path ahead...

Asia
Bhutan
India
Budget support
Civil Society
Food & Nutrition Security

Studies Show Benefits of Child Support Grants

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Voices & Views

Randomised control trials in South Africa have repeatedly shown that in-cash social transfers made to families with young children can have significant long-term positive impacts on the lives of those children and the future...

Africa
Lesotho
South Africa
Social Protection and Inclusion
Social services aid & social transfers

A Delegation Perspective on Implementing the GAP

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Voices & Views

One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?

Africa
Cabo Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Lesotho
Asia
Afghanistan
Gender

Building Safer and More Inclusive Cities for Women

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Voices & Views

A refuge for women in Kenya’s Langas slum in Eldoret decided it needed to provide more than shelter and healthcare for victims of sexual and other violence. So SlovakAid helped set up the St Vincent de Paul vocational training...

Africa
Kenya
Asia
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Lebanon
India
Europe
Gender
Urban Development

How Three Young People are Driving Change Around the World

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Voices & Views

Young people are not just leaders of the future – they are leaders of today. With more than half the world’s population under 30, the vast majority in emerging and developing economies, young people have a crucial role to play in...

Africa
Malawi
Asia
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India
Children and Youth
Youth engagement and participation

Transformative Change through Social Protection?

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Voices & Views

A study of five social protection projects in South Asia has found they struggled to create transformative change, and were unable to tackle the persistent discrimination driving poverty and social exclusion.

Asia
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
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India
Nepal
Employment & VET
Social Protection and Inclusion

Roadmaps to Engage Civil Society

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Voices & Views

For European Union delegations and member states, working effectively with civil society organisations presents different challenges. In Chad it takes five days of desert travel to reach organisations in the north; in Azerbaijan...

Americas & the Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago
Asia
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India
Civil Society

Methodological Training Develops Capacities for Improved Outcomes

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Voices & Views

EuropeAid supports capacity development of its staff by providing Methodological Training and seminars in subjects ranging from Policy Dialogue to Aid Effectiveness, Budget Support to Green Economy. Trainings and seminars, held in...

Africa
Lesotho
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
Learning
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

CSOs in India use the Right to Information Act for Accountability and Transparency

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Voices & Views

Renee Zandvliet, working with EuropeAid’s 'Civil Society and Local Authorities' unit, recently visited the European Union (EU) Delegation to India, which currently provides financial support to approximately 80 civil society...

Asia
India
Civil Society
Justice & rule of law
Peace and Security
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene