Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) – new web-site launched

LenCD is an informal and open Learning Network on Capacity Development. Over the recent years, it has grown into a network of individuals and organisations sharing a common interest in improving capacity development practice. DEVCO, represented by Paul Riembault, is part of the network. LenCD’s objectives are to strengthen evidence and facilitate dissemination of good practice; to promote integration of Capacity Development (CD) into mainstream development policy and to support regional and local initiatives to help change in CD practice on the ground. The web-site (www.lencd.org) marks a further step in the maturation of this network.

The web-site constitutes an important platform that monitors and brings together various CD initiatives – a concept that has been reiterated after the recently held LenCD partner meeting in Kigali in February 2011 that convened more than 60 partners from Africa, Latin America, Asia, multilateral and bilateral organisations, research institutions and development practitioners.

The most recent entry reports about the Cairo Workshop on Capacity Development: from Concepts to Implementation  that was held in Cairo on March 28-29, 2011. The event was organized by the Government of Egypt with the support of OECD and JICA. It brought together some 75 policy makers and practitioners, with a balanced representation from the South and the North. Ahead of the Busan High-Level-Forum on Aid Effectiveness, participants reviewed progress and shortcomings on the follow-up given to the principles of capacity development as they were formulated in the Accra Agenda for Action (2008). The event generated a Cairo Consensus on Capacity Development: Call to Action which we have uploaded separately on this blog.