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Making Rwanda’s Joint Governance Assessment Sustainable

Article
Voices & Views

Anastase Shyaka heads the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council, which functions as the secretariat to the Joint Governance Assessment process, and provides advice to both government and other interested partners.

Africa
Rwanda
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Governance & Corruption
Monitoring & Evaluation

A First Ever: The Joint Governance Assessment in Rwanda

Article
Voices & Views

Rwanda has broken the mould and shown that a partner country can take the lead in assessing the quality of its governance, producing a Joint Governance Assessment Report in September 2008. In the process, the Rwandan government...

Africa
Rwanda
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Governance & Corruption
Monitoring & Evaluation

Technical Cooperation reform: News from the ground

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Voices & Views

The Backbone Strategy takes different forms depending on the country context. EC Delegations play a leading role, with Headquarters support, in the dialogue with partners about technical cooperation. Read here news from the ground...

Africa
Americas & the Caribbean
Oceania
Capacity Development
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
Knowledge Management
+2
Learning
Monitoring & Evaluation

Why State Building is not working in DR Congo

Article
Voices & Views

At a recent debate at the European Commission's EuropeAid headquarters, Theodore Trefon, who is also a contributor and editor of the 2005 book, "Reinventing Order in the Congo", sparked a lively debate with his hard-hitting...

Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Explaining the Complexities of Public Sector Reform

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Voices & Views

Can the complexities and challenges of public sector reform be explained in understandable language and clear terms? Test it yourself - for this is what the new reference document produced by unit E4 in EuropeAid sets out to do.

Africa
Asia
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Public Administration Reform in Morocco

Article
Voices & Views

The government of Morocco is engaged in an ambitious programme of public sector reform. Some eight years into the programme, experience shows that such reform is time consuming and requires cross-ministerial support and robust...

Africa
Morocco
Europe
Governance & Corruption
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Somalia: Making Gains in a Fragile Environment

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Voices & Views

For almost two decades, a collapsed government and battling warlords have made Somalia a byword for anarchy.

Africa
Somalia
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Education
+4
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Knowledge Management
Learning
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Southern Voice Welcomes Technical Cooperation Reform

Article
Voices & Views

Measures to reform how the European Commission delivers aid by rethinking approaches to technical cooperation, have been welcomed by a leading Southern representative in Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel-Malek, recently appointed as...

Africa
Egypt
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning