A Revolution in Capacity Development? Africans Ask Tough Questions

In the past year, the donor community has paid unprecedented attention to the subject of capacity development. From the World Bank task force on capacity development in Africa to the Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, donors have signaled both the importance of the issue to African development and a new determination to improve results on capacity development interventions. For African practitioners, however, whether this new attention will result in real changes is still unclear. This brief examines some of the African reactions, gathered through a series of consultations in the past year, to growing attention on capacity development among donors. Unless the new commitments lead to real changes in behavior on the ground, the African practitioners say, the latest commitments will simply be remembered as yet another missed turning point.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Missika-Wierzba, Bathylle, Nelson, Mark
Format:	Brief biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2006-05
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS, AID, AID DEPENDENCY, BILATERAL DONORS, CAPACITY BUILDING, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ENGAGEMENT, COMMUNITY LEADERS, CONSULTATIONS, CORRUPTION, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, ENABLING ENVIRONMENT, FIGURES, FLEXIBILITY, GAPS, GOOD GOVERNANCE, OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE, PARTICIPATORY DECISIONMAKING, POVERTY REDUCTION, PREPARATION, PRIORITIES, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, STAKEHOLDER, STAKEHOLDERS, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/11311279/revolution-capacity-development-africans-ask-tough-questions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9615
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