Who should call meetings, lead capacity assessments or mobilise consultants and monitor their progress? Get help to find the right answer to these questions and more in another tool from the Toolkit for Capacity Development.
The EU’s Food Facility is supporting an innovative approach in Eastern Africa to strengthen food security in arid and semi-arid lands. Last year, EuropeAid’s Daniel Clauss accompanied a review mission to the region to visit EU...
The use of digital technologies in healthcare presents new innovative prospects for the future of healthcare across the EU and Eastern Partnership regions. New eHealth technical solutions are being developed, which have the power...
The European Commission's support to Transparency International's Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres provides an encouraging example of capacity building of civil society organisations and an imaginative approach to how citizens...
The presence of international observers can be a strong deterrent to electoral fraud and violence. But their work can also prove instrumental in the long-term, contributing to improvements in future elections, fostering peace and...
16-year-old Astghik is an old hand at civic engagement. For the past four years she has been working with fellow citizens and World Vision Armenia to improve local services in Yerevan, with tangible results. Can examples like hers...
Ever turned up at a party in jeans and your third-best t-shirt only to find it was supposed to be strictly formal dress? That feeling of blood draining from your body as you stand on your host's front step, emptying your pockets...
The inclusion of disability in the Sustainable Development Goals is a breakthrough for the billion people around the world who experience some form of disability. Four-fifths live in developing countries, and although they are...
by Bradley O. Babson Bradley Babson [ bradbabson@aol.com] is a former World Bank official and UN Consultant on Myanmar. This article is based on a presentation at the US-Asia Institute in Washington, DC on March 5, 2012. In recent...
The darkest days of the global financial crisis are fading away to reveal green shoots of economic growth in much of the developed world. But in developing nations the effects of the downturn are still being felt and could get...
