Partnership has become one of those concepts that have gained popular currency in international cooperation over the last decade. Underlying the concept is a significant message to re-balance power relationships between developing countries and external funding agencies, and to progressively transfer responsibility and ownership to the former....

Harmoniser l’aide des bailleurs et mettre leurs processus et leurs procédures à portée des gouvernements partenaires, voilà un sujet politique majeur pour la communauté de développement et les pays bénéficiaires.

À mesure que s’accélère le mouvement de décentralisation et de démocratisation, il incombe de plus en plus aux gouvernements locaux des pays en développement d’améliorer leurs performances, de gérer l’interface entre l’État et les citoyens et de fournir des services bien qu n’ayant qu’un accès limité aux ressources.

Cela fait bien longtemps que le débat international sur le renforcement des capacités reconnaît l’importance des compétences non techniques, à savoir notamment l’art de la négociation et du dialogue, la création d’un climat de confiance, l’établissement de réseaux et de partenariats, la facilitation des processus ou la gestion du changement.

En quoi les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (TIC) peuvent-elles soutenir les actions de développement ? Les TIC touchent tous les secteurs et influencent toutes les couches de la société ; on les retrouve aussi bien dans les microprojets que dans les grandes institutions.

In an effort to reverse the way of doing international development cooperation, the importance of formal and informal institutions for development has attracted the renewed attention by policy makers and practitioners over the recent past. Against this background, a wealth of new methodologies, guidelines and tools have been designed to promot...

What does capacity look like? How can you develop capacity bottom-up? What is the driving force behind successful capacity development? Does better capacity necessarily lead to better performance?

The notion of Information and Communication Technology Enabled Development is gaining more prominence in development cooperation. The notion examines how the potential of ICT can be used to attain national development goals. Capacity development must now be seen as an integral part of this thinking. The impact of ICT has already been felt in s...

In recent years, self-evaluation has been recommended for capacity development efforts in response to a growing awareness that externally led evaluations are often inappropriate or counterproductive. Self-evaluation has been seen as a means of assessing the needs for capacity development, of developing effective strategies and of improving exi...

As poverty spreads and civil strife grows increasingly prevalent in many developing countries, many commentators have begun to call not only for a closer monitoring of the achievements of development cooperation, but also for Southern partners play an active part in assessing the performance of their Northern partners. Such calls are reflected...