Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Foolishly, we often try to strengthen CBOs as if they were identical to formal organizations. Leadership is particularly important in small, informal organisations such as CBOs, being both their major strength and often their critical weakness. This Note describes an innovative mentoring approa...
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This volume explores the operational implications, from the standpoint of capacity development, of dealing with longstanding development dilemmas. It addresses head on some of the most problematic issues related to incentives, such as compensation schemes, project implementation units, the brai...
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Moussa Para Diallo successfully led his organisation in challenging the import of European potatoes which were threatening the market position of Guinea’s excellent local potatoes. Based on his experience, he outlines the qualities of the ideal farmers’ representative – combative, open, with ke...
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Jul 2006Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere’s 75th birthday was a fitting occasion to reflect on the phenomenon of leadership in Africa. At a conference at the University of Dar es Salaam, academics, political activists, representatives of civil society, the media, students and diplomats registered serious conce...
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This book is about how some of the most successful NGOs in South Asia are managed. It deals with issues of growth, leadership and context, and questions the usefulness of Western management doctrine. The case studies highlight the role of learning for the success and growth of NGOs. But the boo...
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This handbook is one of a series of 12 intended for use by trainers in national training institutions for local government or training units within local governments themselves. As an additional assistance for trainers, the UN-Habitat has published a companion trainer’s guide containing notes a...
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It is estimated that nearly half a million local elected officials and other community leaders on six continents have used the original Local Elected Leadership (LEL) Series. The series has been improved, based on the feedback of literally thousands of trainers and workshop participants, and in...
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From 2001 to 2004, the World Bank supported leadership capacity building initiatives in six countries, five of them LICUS. These workshops sought to provide skills, experience, and technical information to support leaders in partner governments in mobilizing expertise, resources, and political...
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Jul 2006The first in a series of research reports from Leadership South West, which gives an introduction to some of the key issues in the field of leadership, including what is it, how can it be measured and what impact does it have upon performance? This report does not claim to be the definitive gui...
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Jul 2006This is a weekly online magazine analyzes and promotes policies that will further the creation of a free society in Kenya and Africa in general. The magazine aims to promote free trade throughout Africa as a way to support the growing interest in market economics and private enterprise among le...