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Nuffic publishes report on gender mainstreaming

24 March 2012: Nuffic (the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education) has published a report on gender mainstreaming in the development cooperation higher education capacity building programmes of the Netherlands. In this book the Nuffic looks back on the lessons it has learnt with regard to mainstreaming gender in 3 key programmes of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NFP [scholarships], NPT [projects] and NICHE [projects]). The report discusses: what the gender equality objectives and requirements are for the three programmes; how Nuffic has interpreted these and translated them in the programmes; the challenges that Nuffic has experienced in mainstreaming gender in the three programmes; how Nuffic has dealt with these challenges; and where there is room for improvement.

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Food aid decision-making tool to strengthen context-specific humanitarian responses
The Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA) decision-making tool developed by Cornell University researchers aims to help international relief organizations cater their food aid response to specific local and regional economic and social contexts. The tool builds on lessons learnt during the Indian Ocean tsunami as relief agencies sought more efficient local alternatives to international food aid.
Organizational assessment tool for social movements
My Healthy Organization (MHO) Social Service Assessment Tool was developed by RoadMap, a US-based consultancy network that provides capacity-building support to social justice organizations and movements. The tool is designed to integrate social justice and movement-building values into organizational effectiveness benchmarks. It also aims to promote learning opportunities for the organizations (and thus increase organizational development capacity "on the ground") through providing detailed process and next-steps guidelines.

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Issue 44 : March 2012

Markets, smallholders and empowerment

Next Issue: Community adaptation to climate change

Issue 45 of Capacity.org, to be published ahead of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June, will explore the theme of community adaptation to climate change. We welcome contributions on this topic for publication in the online version of the Journal, as well as the related topic resource page on the Capacity.org website (currently under development). In particular, we seek specific insights on two questions: (1) Adaptation to what? Are there reliable sources for communities find out what type of changes to expect? and (2) Which factors determine a community’s adaptation capacity and what can be done to enhance local resilience to the effects of climate change? If you would like to contribute to this issue, please contact the Editor-in-Chief, Heinz Greijn (editor@capacity.org).

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Sharing lessons on multi-stakeholder processes for systemic change

May 21, 2012 - Steve Waddell, NetworkingAction

On 24-25 April 2012, the Change Alliance and the Southern Africa Trust co-organized a workshop in Johannesburg aimed at creating a space for Africans working with multi-stakeholder processes to learn from each other. One of the event's facilitators, Steve Waddel has posted some reflections on the discussions, which took stock of the state of capacity and explored strategies for enhancing multi-stakeholder processes for systemic change (MSP4Change).

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Call for input: Capacity.org Issue 45 on Community Adaptation to Climate Change

March 21, 2012 - Heinz Greijn, Editor-in-Chief, Capacity.org

In the forthcoming issue of Capacity.org journal, due to be published prior to the Rio+20 Sustainable Development conference in June, we will turn the spotlight on those communities that are considered most vulnerable to climate change impacts. These include marginalized small holders and pastoralists whose livelihoods depend on natural resource bases that are already severely stressed and degraded. This focus is "Inspired" by the disappointing progress made at the December 2011 UN Climate Change Conference on Conference held in Durban, South Africa.