Earlier this year, the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana hosted an in-country learning event on technical cooperation reform to gain an insight into how the ongoing TC reform is implemented at ground level.
The European Commission is making modest but positive steps in its Technical Cooperation reform in a difficult environment in Georgia, according to Philippe Bernhard of the European Union delegation in Tblisi. The EU delegation in...
How can partners address capacity development and what can you do to support them in the early stages of such processes? This is a key issue that underlies all European Commission efforts towards sustainability of development and...
Who are actually pressing for performance from public organisations? Who are overseeing them, and to whom are they accountable? The Toolkit for Capacity Development has a handy tool for mapping sector and governance actors.
Morocco is well advanced in implementing the European Commission's reform of Technical Cooperation, according to the Delegation of the European Union in the country. But in the specific case of Morocco, more can be done to develop...
For Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive of international charity ActionAid, building capacity doesn’t just mean teaching and enabling partners to do things better. It also means addressing donors’ capabilities and in particular, donors’...
Since January, European Commission Delegations have been required to complete Quality Assessment Grids in addition to Action Fiches for technical cooperation support operations in the QSG process. The first samples arriving for...
Decades of international donor support to the transport sector in Chad have targeted the national transport network, but the government remains dependent on external technical assistance.
How can we bring the principles of the Backbone Strategy on Technical Cooperation Reform into supporting infrastructure programmes? How can we be Backbone-minded? These were the themes of a recent internal session at EuropeAid...
Marcus Cornaro, who heads the Directorate for the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument, wants to see Technical Cooperation reform integrated at every stage of the project cycle in the European neighbourhood. To achieve this...