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 Issue  38 | December 2009

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  • Local capacity developers: who are they, what drives them and what challenges do they face? Capacity.org interviewed three LCDs from Benin, Tanzania and Vietnam to find some answers.
     

  • The water and sanitation targets of Ethiopia’s Universal Access Plan are to be reached by 2012. Heinz Greijn talks with Mr Abebe Ayenew of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water Resources about strategies for achieving this goal.
     

  • The European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries are currently negotiating new Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). AU Ambassador Mahamet Saleh Annadif believes that researchers can provide effective support for ACP n...
     

  • The International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) represents over 600 million farm families. Former IFAP president Jack Wilkinson talks to Capacity.org about the role of producer organisations in addressing the food crisis.
     

  • The Liberian government faces the challenge of stabilising and rebuilding the nation after two civil wars. Capacity.org interviewed Dr Toga McIntosh, Liberia’s Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs.
     

  • Over the last five years, the government of Cambodia has strengthened its national aid coordination process. We interviewed His Excellency Chhieng Yanara on the first Aid Effectiveness Report which reviewed the process to date.
     

  • Oumoul Ba Tal is chair of the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA). She believes that evaluations can contribute to development, provided they go beyond the level of projects and programmes.
     

  • Ousmane Oumarou Sidibé has been given no mean assignment. He is responsible for reforming the entire system of governance in Mali. His aim is, first and foremost, to make government more client-oriented. At all levels. Ousmane Sidibé argues that...
     

  • Rajesh Tandon claims that donor harmonisation is making his work more difficult. For his organisation, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), it means fewer resources and less influence internationally. Tandon has therefore reassessed his priori...