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Takeaways from the field: a candid interview with Francine Pickup, UNDP
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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.
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Africa
Americas & the Caribbean
+3Asia
Oceania
Europe
Capacity Development
Development Effectiveness
Development Policy
+1Innovative Financing for Development
The challenges of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia
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Voices & Views
Stakeholders from all over Asia met for the Asia Regional Meeting of the Policy Forum on Development to discuss the state of play of SDG implementation in the region.
Asia
Civil Society
Climate change & disaster risks
Development Policy
"Joint Programming boosts focus, cooperation and visibility"
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Development programmes always strive to be as effective as possible – one way of achieving efficiency is to combine the strengths of all partners working in the sector. A recent evaluation of EU Joint Programming has shown that...
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Africa
Mozambique
+2Asia
Cambodia
Development Policy
Monitoring & Evaluation
EU Delegation to Laos: Piloting an Intercultural Approach
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An intercultural approach is increasingly recognised as a key element in development, especially for a new and more effective relationship with Partner Countries. But how do you get from theory to practice? Staff at the EU...
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Laos
Development Effectiveness
Culture
Development Policy
Views from the Field: In Conversation with the Foreign Minister and EU Ambassador to Timor-Leste
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Voices & Views
Emerging from over two decades of conflict and instability, in May 2002 the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the 21st century’s first new sovereign state. Since then the country’s government – with assistance from the...
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Timor-Leste
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
Development Policy
+3Environment & green economy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Forests
Views from the Field: In Conversation with the Head of Mission in Laos
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Voices & Views
Communist Laos began opening up to the world in the 1990s, joining ASEAN and trading with the EU under the ‘Everything but Arms’ scheme. Yet the largely rural population remains poor and development challenges abound. Michel...
Asia
Laos
Development Policy
Views from the Field: In Conversation with the EU Ambassador to Pakistan
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Created in 1947 from the partition of the Indian sub-continent, Muslim-majority Pakistan has been marked by regional conflicts and political upheaval. Jean-François Cautain, EU Ambassador to Pakistan, shares his experience working...
Asia
Pakistan
Development Policy
Private Sector
Trade & Economic Integration
No Peace without Development: EU-UN Cooperation in Fragile Countries
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Voices & Views
“One of the most important messages that I have today is that we need to understand that the life of a conflict is much longer than it seems on the surface. That’s why we have to listen to the first signs. Whether it is a conflict...
Asia
Palestine
Syria
+1Europe
Development Policy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
The Development Progress Project: Learning from Implementing the MDGs
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Development Progress is a four-year research project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and executed by the UK-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI). It aims to measure, understand and communicate where and how...
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Nepal
Development Effectiveness
Development Policy