In promoting evidence-based policy in developing countries, the links between civil society organisations and legislators in the research-policy-practice interface have been insufficiently studied.

Since the mid-1990s, when trade policy was understood by only a few experts, NGO campaigns have done a lot to increase the public exposure and awareness of trade issues.

The Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) links research and policy to improve the livelihoods of people in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Zebediela Citrus Estate in Limpopo province, South Africa, was returned to the Bjatladi community in 2003. The community now co-owns and manages the enterprise and its productive assets.

Since 1990 the Chilean government has supported the participation of small-scale farmers in one of the most competitive economies in the developing world.

Uganda’s National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) has adopted a new approach to encourage coffee farmers to expand the scope of their activities in the coffee value chain.

CABUNGO, a Malawian NGO providing organisational development services to local NGOs, recently evaluated its own performance using the Most Significant Change approach. Rebecca Wrigley describes how, with the support of stakeholders, CABUNGO lear...

The Community Development Resource Association is a South African NGO that serves social development and civil society initiatives around the world. Sue Soal describes CDRA’s approach to organisational learning.

In many aid agencies the rhetoric of learning is rarely matched in practice. Charles Owusu describes the efforts of ActionAid to make systems and structures part of the solution to becoming a learning organisation, rather than part of the proble...

Moussiliou Adiloy, an independent consultant based in Benin, has many years’ experience in capacity development with various organisations. Here he identifies the barriers to team learning, and ways to overcome them.