Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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This manual is designed to assist NGOs/FBOs/CBOs in developing a monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) framework for HIV programming. It describes the basic principles of MER, results-based MER, and indicators as well as providing worksheets. This manual was developed and field-tested thro...
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Joint evaluations are an evolving and dynamic area of development cooperation. In 2004, the Network commissioned this report to and analyse recent experiences, and to include the perspective of developing country partners. This report aims to build understanding of joint evaluations: what we me...
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Jul 2006Published for the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico City in March 2006, this report indicates a sharp increase in ODA to water supply and sanitation in 2004. The increase is largely due to U.S. reconstruction aid for Iraq, however, with no sign of increased prioritization for the water sector as...
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Empowerment, that is ‘enhancing an individual’s or group’s capacity to make purposive choice and transform that choice into desired actions and outcomes’, is now part of development rhetoric. This paper offers a conceptualization of empowerment that can be used to turn the idea into measurable...
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has far-reaching implications for governance and development. This article examines how the impacts of the pandemic can be envisaged as processes of demographic transition, economic development and the growth of a bureaucratic state, running in reverse. Meanwhile...
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Jul 2006This paper is concerned with the demands made by the HIV/AIDS pandemic on leadership in Africa. The crisis of HIV/AIDS is quite simply the largest challenge facing the African continent today. It has been said, quite rightly, that combating HIV/AIDS requires the same level of commitment, vision...
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This revised edition of the best-selling handbook describes the most effective leadership and management practices that can be applied throughout a nonprofit organization. It offers practical advice on: board development, strategic planning, lobbying marketing, government contracting, volunteer...
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This guide reviews key methodologies and practices in leadership development as well as concepts, and methodologies for systematic application and support in this field. The present concern for leadership comes from the drive for participatory governance and the realization that the effectivene...
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Decentralisation is recognised as central to efforts in South Africa to improve the delivery of public services, to combat poverty and to develop parts of the country neglected by the apartheid regime. This paper reports on the progress of democratic decentralisation in Mdudwa, a community in a...
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Jul 2006Liberal peace, the explicit merging of international security and development policy, has arrived fairly late on the scene in Sierra Leone. One of its primary foci is regimes of customary governance and sociality associated with chiefdom administration. Many international agencies consider thes...