Publications
This section offers a selection of publications related to capacity development.
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Analyses of the determinants of child labour have largely neglected the role of access to basic services. The availability of these services can affect the value of children’s time and, concomitantly, household decisions concerning how this time is allocated between school and work. This paper...
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The understanding of what makes aid effective is changing. Evidence and experience have challenged traditional approaches to ‘conditionality’ (where donors make their aid conditional on the pursuit of particular policies in the partner country). This paper sets out a new approach to building su...
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Too often, services fail poor people – in terms of access, quality and affordability. But the fact that there are striking examples where basic services do work means that governments and citizens can do a better job of providing them. The report argues that services can be improved by putting...
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This report provides a snapshot of the World Bank's efforts to work with governments, civil society, other aid agencies and communities worldwide to help developing countries get better results and achieve the MDGs.
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In 2002, a taskforce of WEF members in 16 countries and representing 18 industry sectors signed a joint statement on global corporate citizenship. They endorsed a framework for action that offers practical steps that CEOs, board directors, and executive teams can refer to in directing their com...
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This paper examines the key challenges in the delivery of health and education services to poor populations and in achieving the MDGs. It highlights the institutional problems involved, and the global trends towards decentralisation and participation within which they are located. The paper rev...
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Published for the World Summit on the Information Society, this paper discusses the notion of partnerships in development practice, with an emphasis on partnerships in the field of ICTs for development.
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Mar 2007Why, despite two decades of social and infrastructure improvements, do many Latin Americans have to make do with low-quality services? Improving service delivery is both a political demand and central to achieving the MDGs. This book examines some successes and failures, and offers guidance to...
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UNDP Capacity Development Group, 2005. This review of 20 institutional capacity assessment tools draws from publicly available resources of non-profit organisations, management consultancies, UN agencies and other donor organisations.
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UNDP Capacity Development Group, 2005. This catalogue offers a selection of resources on capacity development topics. The catalogue, divided into eight sections, is periodically updated to take account of ongoing work in this area.