The new Gender Action Plan for 2016-20 (GAP II) establishes gender analysis as mandatory for all new actions ( GAP II and GAP Guidance Note in Annex). Delegations are expected to have carried it out by mid-2016. A team of experts...
Capacity Development was addressed in the discussions as a fundamental cross-cutting issue in Busan, even more than expected : 1) The importance of Capacity Development was exemplified by the interventions made by the African...
Subandi Sardjoko, Director of Education and Religious Affairs at the Indonesian National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS) talks of his experiences as a Partner involved in the EU's Technical Cooperation Reform.
A video of the contributions by Jos Jonckers, a special presentation made at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Busan, South Korea, from the 29 November to 1 December 2011. Jos works in the Asia unit at...
A presentation by Paul Riembault, made at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, held in Busan, South Korea, from the 29 November to 1 December 2011. Paul is the head of the Capacity Development section of Unit B1...
The UK's Guardian newspaper is running this interesting wrap up of the Fourth High Level Forum in Busan. The writer Jonathan Glennie says that the rising influence of the BRIC countries has shaped the aid agenda at Busan and was...
This video was shown during the Mini-debate 'The European Commission's Reform for More Effective Capacity Development': a success story from Indonesia
The HLF is showing the clear and strong intention of developing countries to take responsability of their own development. We heard many declarations, especially from african representatives, of strong commitment to ownership...
For the first time CSO have been part of the negotiations in the HLF in Busan as an equal partner together with governments and multilateral agencies. More than 1700 CSOs are represented in Busan and 300 participants actually made...
By now you will have realised that my interest has been to track the discussion of capacity development within the wider debate on aid and development effectiveness. Not everybodies cup of tea, perhaps, but I am convinced capacity...
