Guest column
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‘Do no harm’ is a guiding principle in many professional disciplines. Yet although development practitioners routinely intervene in other people’s lives, this principle has not become one of the lodestars of development. Much of what is done in...
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One of the core principles of development should be, without a doubt, that helping local capacity developers (LCDs) is a prerequisite for successful and sustainable development. It is a wonder that despite paying lip service to this principle, i...
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A spectre is haunting donors – the spectre of insignificance. Once the world seemed to be on a rather straight path towards universal well-being: donors could provide investments to boost the economy (1960 and1970s), or pay attention to basic ne...
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‘Capacity development’ means different things to different people. However, it is generally considered essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relating to water and sanitation. The slow spread of safe water and sanitation...
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It is common to think that academic researchers and aid practitioners cannot communicate because they live in different worlds. The former are said to be concerned with formulating theories regardless of the complexities and contradictions of th...
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Farmers face a wide range of risks, including depleted soil, irregular rainfall, unexpected drought, rising input prices, decreasing output prices, diseases and sudden changes in demand, to name but a few. Many of these issues could be dealt wit...
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The recent National Intelligence Estimate of the US intelligence agencies concluded that Iran had abandoned its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.
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In 2005, more than 100 donors, partner countries, international organisations and civil society organisations signed the ground-breaking Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. The declaration recognises that aid is more effective when partner c...
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Capacity building projects are often seen as a means of providing NGOs with the tools they need to effectively deliver programmes or services, and of ensuring the ability of recipients to demonstrate accountability for the financial aid received...
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Whether or not the label ‘partnership’ is appropriate, the message in this issue of Capacity.Org is clear: in service delivery relationships matter. But less plain are processes that create successful interactions between diverse organisations –...