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Moving to Government-Managed Technical Assistance

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Voices & Views

In the present phase of EC support to the health sector in the Philippines, the commission contracts TA personnel. This will change in 2011 when the government will take charge of recruitment and management of TA. The radical...

Worldwide
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Governance & Corruption
+3
Health
Knowledge Management
Learning

Technical Assistants as Scouts for Donors – A Legitimate Function?

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Voices & Views

Donors are particularly concerned about three issues: 1) Will we get the agreed results? 2) Can we spend the amount of money we intended to spend? and 3) Will they be spent effectively and efficiently? Technical assistance is a...

Worldwide
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning

EuropeAid: Third Regional Workshop on Democratic Governance

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Voices & Views

The regional workshops provide an occasion for colleagues working on democratic governance to meet and exchange experiences and ideas. This year, key topics included presentations and discussions on:

Africa
Rwanda
Development Effectiveness
Democracy
Governance & Corruption
+1
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

Somalia: Making Gains in a Fragile Environment

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Voices & Views

For almost two decades, a collapsed government and battling warlords have made Somalia a byword for anarchy.

Africa
Somalia
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Education
+4
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Knowledge Management
Learning
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Welcome to www.Capacity4dev.eu

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Voices & Views

EuropeAid's new open platform for more effective technical cooperation aims at becoming an indispensable tool for development practitioners, says Wojciech Lubowiecki, head of the editorial team of the platform, in this welcome...

Worldwide
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning

Southern Voice Welcomes Technical Cooperation Reform

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Voices & Views

Measures to reform how the European Commission delivers aid by rethinking approaches to technical cooperation, have been welcomed by a leading Southern representative in Aid Effectiveness, Talaat Abdel-Malek, recently appointed as...

Africa
Egypt
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
+1
Learning

Technical Cooperation Reform is a Culture Change

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Voices & Views

The European Commission is taking a lead role in championing a results-driven reform of technical cooperation. In a video interview to mark the launch of the new Capacity4dev.eu platform, Koos Richelle, Director General of the...

Worldwide
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Intervention Cycle Management (Project/Program Cycle Management)
+3
Knowledge Management
Learning
Monitoring & Evaluation