A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a systematic process for evaluating the environmental implications of a proposed policy, plan or programme and provides means for looking at cumulative effects and appropriately...
According to Frannie Leautier from the African Capacity Building Foundation, regular monitoring of capacity change in Africa could stimulate a lively debate on aid results and capacity in the run-up to Busan and beyond.
In 1867, the chief engineer of the British Post Office said: “ The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys”. Thomas J. Warson, president of IBM, stated in 1948: “ I think there is a...
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...
The Drama, Diversity and Development project, funded by the EU under its regional programme on Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean, has launched a call for tender to contract seven legal researchers or...
Indicators: a) GP and LL on institutions and capacity strengthening on IE identified. b) Challenges on institutions and capacity strengthening on IE identified and possible means to overcome identified and analysed. Data Analysis...
The 2018 European Regional Meeting of the Policy Forum on Development (PFD) saw the SDGs positioned as the guiding principles behind discussions on urban growth, the role of civil society, and ecological impacts. For Sally...
NATURAL DISASTER I ACUTE EMERGENCY I ASSESSMENTS Type of system: Indago Multi-copter Microdrones by Lockheed Martin, 960L by Allign, Phantom 2 Vision+ by DJI and Fixed wing model UX-5 by Trimble Deploying agency: World Bank with...
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...
Worldwide, donors spend millions of euros on governance support but are often left assessing a mixed bag of results. Delegates at a recent workshop in Brussels considered why it is so hard to achieve reliably good results and...
