Effective
Capacity Development
From theory to practice
Module 1: Introduction
This training in Context: Brussels Perspective
• Training builds on (i) Aid Effectiveness agenda and (ii) report
of European Court of Auditors in 2007, critical of TC
• Preparation of Backbone Strategy, TC Guidelines and CD
Quality Criteria, and today…..an integrated PPCM approach
• Recognises new dynamics in international cooperation, new
players, new challenges and the need to stay relevant
through dialogue and understanding context
• The EU’s Agenda for Change: Communication emphasizes
capacity at local level; strengthening institutions responsible for
governance and service delivery; CD a feature of most if not all EU
support
• Support Busan 2011: (i) CD a strategic objective of aid and
development: (ii) Platform on Effective Institutions
This training in Context: Maputo Perspective
•
CD experience: many efforts, limited results? Are
investments in capacity development leading to better
service delivery? If not, why not? Could we do better?
•
New programmes recently launched under EDF 10:
PFM, rule of law, Civil society, local development
•
Preparations for EDF 11 under way: “CD as the
backbone of all EU support”
•
Assumption: Public and not for profit organisations
responsible for delivery of public services are
committed to improving the quality of service delivery
Purpose and
Objective
Create local consensus on ways
to implement Capacity
Development for improved
service delivery
Identify practical ways to apply
good CD practice in
Mozambican context
Main message
Development effectiveness
and
aid effectiveness
require
a Capacity Development
perspective
The changes needed
• Moving towards a more effective approach
for the development of sustainable capacity
requires a mind-set shift on all sides.
• Continuing TC business as usual will not do
• Development partners need to change their
approaches and practices, AND partner
countries need to change their ideas and
expectations about how to develop capacity
6
Participants
CSOs
EUD
GoM
CD
Training
Maputo
DPs
Training Structure
Next Steps
M1:
Introduction
M9: Cap4Dev and
knowledge
Resources
M8: Program
Implementation
Arrangements
M7: Change
Strategy
M2: Concepts &
Principles
M3: Fitting to
Context
Training on
CD
M6: Results
and M&E
M4: Ownership
& Demand
M5:
Harmonised
Support
8
Training Approach
•
•
•
•
•
•
Presentations and Break-out sessions
Post-it, Cards, Flip Charts
Files, background docs and Memory Sticks
Focus on discussion and exchange of views
Linking QCs to the cases
A dialogue and discussion, rather than a
lecture, all points of view count, no right and
wrong
• Towards joint learning: bringing concepts
and practice together
Presentation of Case Studies
• 1. Public Financial Management Reform
• 2. Institutional Support to the Ministry of the
Interior
• 3. Support to Civil Society
Exercise
What are the key words that come
to your mind when thinking about
« Capacity Development »?
END