Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Feb 2006Ros Tennyson, The Partnering Initiative, August 2005. This guidebook outlines the many tasks that a broker may undertake on behalf of partners during the lifecycle of a partnership, and will be useful for those operating as brokers in multi-sector partnerships for sustainable development.
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Ros Tennyson, The Partnering Initiative, 2006. This toolbook is designed to help individuals to create their own case studies. It is aimed at partnership practitioners worldwide, irrespective of the sector or their partnering role(s), whether they are working on partnerships at an operational o...
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Feb 2006Ros Tennyson, The Partnering Initiative, with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), UNDP and IAEA, 2004. A concise, step-by-step overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering, produced in cooperation with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), UN...
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UNDG, August 2005. This toolkit aims to help local government and their communities become actively involved in meeting the MDGs. The toolkit proposes that local governments need to develop and implement a local approach outlining how they will contribute to the MDGs in their local area . This...
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UN Millennium Project, October 2005. This handbook consolidates the practical lessons from country-level efforts to operationalize the MDGs and draws on two years of research by the UN Millennium Project, which pioneered the needs-based approach to the MDGs. The handbook presents a ‘how-to’ gui...
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UNDP, 2005. This pilot ‘how-to’ guide consolidates the efforts of UN country teams into a step-by-step approach to support MDG-based national development strategies. Part I provides country partners with the ‘how to’ for strengthening the analytical, managerial, and political capacities needed...
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M. Church et al., Working paper no. 121, University College of London, DFID, 2002. This paper is the product of collective reflection by nine coordinators of networks and movements advocating for social change. They explore tools for holistic thinking about networks. They argue that evaluation...
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C. Liebler and M. Ferri (2004), Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation (PVC), USAID. The strengthening of indigenous NGO networks is an important element of the strategic framework used by PVC. The purpose of this study is to prov...
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Feb 2006Suzanne Taschereau and Joe Bolger, ECDPM, September 2005. This theme paper for the study ‘Capacity, Change and Performance’ is intended to contribute to a conceptual understanding of networks and associated capacity issues: what is a network, why do networks emerge, why and how are networks dis...
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Feb 2006Julia Zinke, report of a workshop hosted by SNV, UNDP and ECDPM, The Hague, September 2005. The workshop brought together Northern and Southern researchers and practitioners to discuss networks and the capacities they comprise and create. Networks are dynamic, and evolve over time in response t...