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Isabella Olsson episode 2

Rooted advocacy to foster community ownership: challenges and lessons learnt

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Podcast

The second episode of the Capacity4dev Podcast Series is now live!

Worldwide
South Sudan
Sudan
+1
Africa
Capacity Development
Communicating Development Cooperation
Development Effectiveness
+3
Education
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Humanitarian Aid
Capacity4dev Podcast Series

Capacity4dev Podcast Series is now live!

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Podcast

Welcome to Capacity4dev Podcast Series!

Worldwide
Africa
Asia
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Europe
Americas & the Caribbean
Oceania
Capacity Development
Communicating Development Cooperation
Development Policy
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Takeaways from the field: a candid interview with Francine Pickup, UNDP

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Video

The Capacity4dev Team sat down with Francine Pickup, Deputy Director of the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support at UNDP, who shared insights from her field days and reflections on her work today.

Worldwide
Africa
Americas & the Caribbean
+3
Asia
Oceania
Europe
Capacity Development
Development Effectiveness
Development Policy
+1
Innovative Financing for Development

Intercultural awareness and capacity for development effectiveness

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Voices & Views

International partnerships, being multicultural in nature, often face cultural differences which can generate misunderstandings, tension, and inefficiency. There are both tangible and intangible cultural barriers in EU...

Africa
Uganda
Americas & the Caribbean
+3
Brazil
Asia
Nepal
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Development Effectiveness
Aid effectiveness
+2
Capacity Development
Capacity development
Primary pupil in Uganda

Supporting the teachers: Where do development actors come in?

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Voices & Views

What kind of issues and challenges do teachers face in developing countries? What forms of support can help address them? Join our discussion and share your views.

Africa
Uganda
Capacity Development
Education
Employment & VET
Interpreter

The role of homegrown interpretation in development

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Voices & Views

Africa's linguistic diversity is stunning, but with over 1,500 languages spoken across the continent, communication can be a challenge – even within countries themselves.

Africa
Capacity Development
Capacity development
Digitalisation
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Communication policy

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

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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

Developing Financial Management Capacity in South African Municipalities – A Basis for Local Development

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Voices & Views

When you think about development challenges, a lack of trained accountants might not immediately come to mind. Yet poor public sector financial management is often at the root of patchy service delivery in other sectors, from...

Africa
South Africa
Budget support
Capacity Development
Economics & Public Finance
+3
Knowledge Management
Learning
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Tanzania: New Resistant Coffee Varieties Developed with EU Support

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Voices & Views

As soon as the seedlings are ready for planting, women in brightly coloured clothes wrapped at the waist load the new disease resistant varieties of coffee seedlings into the back of a truck. Developed at the Tanzania Coffee...

Africa
Tanzania
Agriculture & Rural Development
Capacity Development
Fisheries
+2
Knowledge Management
Learning

Views from the Field: In conversation with the EU Ambassador to South Africa

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Voices & Views

Last October, Marcus Cornaro left the Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) to take up a new post as Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to South Africa. In this interview he shares some...

Africa
South Africa
Capacity Development
Development Policy
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning