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Answering Your Most Burning Questions on Decentralisation and Local Governance

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Voices & Views

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role in development today. For Jorge Rodriguez, Quality Support Manager in the Civil Society, Local Authorities Unit at EuropeAid, online media provided the answer...

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Democracy
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

The Commitment to Development Index

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Voices & Views

Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe, at the The Center for Global Development attended the session Europe Beyond Aid at the recent European Development Days to present the Commitment to Development Index and to...

Worldwide
Europe
Development Policy

From Better Theory to Better Practice

Article
Voices & Views

Donors are too cautious in rallying behind new aid modalities when implementing their Paris commitments on aid effectiveness, says David Booth and colleagues in a series of studies from the UK's Overseas Development Institute.

Worldwide
Civil Society
Governance & Corruption

Telling the Development Story...

Article
Voices & Views

Development aid is working, don’t stop now. That was the message Danish non-governmental organisations wanted to send in the face of flagging public support for development. So four years ago, in collaboration with the Danish...

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Communicating Development Cooperation

The Most Popular Voices & Views in 2014

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Voices & Views

Capacity4dev.eu reviews the most popular Voices & Views in 2014, which featured a variety of topics including education, youth, ICT, and ended with a focus on Ebola.

Worldwide
Communicating Development Cooperation
Key take-away points from biodiversity webinar

Key take-away points from biodiversity webinar

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Editors' Spotlight

The Capacity4dev editors collaborated with INTPA.F.2 and provides a list of takeaways.

Worldwide
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Informal urbanisation and the rise of slums

Informal urbanisation and the rise of slums

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Editors' Spotlight

The Capacity4dev editors collaborated with INTPA.F.4 and provide three lessons learnt from a webinar series on sustainable urban development.

Worldwide
Americas & the Caribbean
Brazil
Urban Development
Housing
Sustainable cities
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Urban policies & planning

Decentralisation and Local Governance: Participate in a Virtual Discussion Group

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Voices & Views

European Commission staff are already participating in online discussion forums and recently, a discussion group was launched on decentralisation and local governance, feeding into a workshop in Brussels in July. "I am a task...

Worldwide
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Governance & Corruption
Monitoring & Evaluation
+1
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
Tackling inequalities through development cooperation

Tackling inequalities through development cooperation

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Editors' Spotlight

The Capacity4dev editorial team collaborated with INTPA.G.4 and outlines principles and recommendations for the design and implementation of development cooperation programmes contributing to the reduction of inequalities.

Worldwide
Development Effectiveness
Development Policy
Social Protection and Inclusion

A Backbone for Improved Technical Cooperation in Mozambique

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Voices & Views

The impact of Technical cooperation (TC) delivery in Mozambique is unsatisfactory and strategic and coordinated planning of TC is urgent required. This, in a nutshell, is the general consensus that came out of a series of meetings...

Worldwide
Capacity Development
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Knowledge Management
+2
Learning
Monitoring & Evaluation