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 Issue  33 | April 2008

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  • Capacity building for development is difficult at the best of times, but what happens when community structures have been destroyed, and there are no mechanisms to articulate local priorities? SNV’s MAMM programme went back to the drawing board...
     

  • The Asian tsunami of December 2004 provided an opportunity to explore innovative approaches to improve service delivery. Arun Kashyap describes how a public–private partnership has assisted communities across the region to build better water and...
     

  • Formed in May 2004, the Strategic Alliance Partnership has united local and external agencies working in the Afar region. The coalition has achieved notable successes in improving health and education services for pastoralist communities.
     

  • The refugee camps near Kasulu, Tanzania, offer sanctuary for many thousands of people fleeing conflicts in neighbouring countries. For the relief agencies and NGOs that provide shelter and basic services, good communications are essential.
     

  • Somalia’s maternal and infant mortality rates are among the highest in the world. Working with local NGOs and health centres, the Puntland Health Partnership programme is succeeding in improving access to quality services for thousands of women....
     

  • There is now global consensus on the need to enhance education for girls, particularly through well coordinated partnerships. Nitya Rao and Ines Smyth assess the experiences of a number of partnerships in promoting girls’ education.
     

  • In promoting a community-based approach to natural resources management, the ISDA project has learned that influential ‘champions’ are essential for building an agreed vision for change, and for getting the changes to stick.
     

  • Barry Kibel has designed and implemented evaluations for complex programmes. Here he explains journey mapping, its use in monitoring and evaluation, and how it can contribute to capacity development.
     

  • The Ceja Andina project has shown that with Outcome Mapping it is possible to engage a wide range of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation that can satisfy the need for accountability as well as learning about the process of change.
     

  • The members of REDL, a network of development actors working in the field of decentralisation and local government in West Africa, are documenting, analysing and sharing their methods and lessons learned. Now no one has to reinvent the wheel.