Practice Reports
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Apr 2008CABUNGO, a Malawian NGO providing organisational development services to local NGOs, recently evaluated its own performance using the Most Significant Change approach. Rebecca Wrigley describes how, with the support of stakeholders, CABUNGO lear...
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The Community Development Resource Association is a South African NGO that serves social development and civil society initiatives around the world. Sue Soal describes CDRA’s approach to organisational learning.
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Apr 2008In many aid agencies the rhetoric of learning is rarely matched in practice. Charles Owusu describes the efforts of ActionAid to make systems and structures part of the solution to becoming a learning organisation, rather than part of the proble...
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Apr 2008Moussiliou Adiloy, an independent consultant based in Benin, has many years’ experience in capacity development with various organisations. Here he identifies the barriers to team learning, and ways to overcome them.
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Strengthening the accountability of government officials to their constituents provides an important impetus to boosting their capacity to govern effectively. However, as examples from Iraq and Indonesia show, the legitimacy of the government is...
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During Haiti’s 200 years of independence it has remained an extremely weak state, characterised by the absence of functional institutions. Recent political developments raise the issue of the impact of parallel service delivery on the emerging s...
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Dec 2007After more than 17 years of internal conflict, Mozambique was littered with thousands of landmines. This article describes how locally recruited deminers contributed to local ownership and the state’s legitimacy.
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Aug 2007Africans are not recognised for the work they do to promote social accountability in their countries. A new pan-African platform allows them to share their experiences, learn new techniques and disseminate information, and encourages new initiat...
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Aug 2007How does a population renowned for its tolerance and acceptance of authority learn to demand accountability from its leaders? Can autocratic leaders redefine themselves as public servants? An interesting social experiment is underway in Tanzania.
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The Institute of Public Finance (IPF) believes that budgets are too important to be left to elected representatives. As taxpayers, citizens should also have a say in the distribution and management of public funds.