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The State of Capacity Development in Africa Report Overview and Guiding Questions to operationalize the Initiative July, 2011. Inspiration and Context?. Collaborative & inclusive - APDev stakeholders. Evidence-based knowledge and innovation Priority - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The State of Capacity Development in Africa Report
Overview and Guiding Questions to operationalize the Initiative
July, 2011
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Inspiration and Context?
AU Vision and Agenda on CD
Evidence-based knowledge and innovation Priority- Document, share and learn for innovation & growth – Knowledge as capacity for effective action• The evident need for capable institutions to drive development (responsive, resilient, adaptive institutions)
Linked to Ongoing CD initiatives in Africa(Dev Partners, Private, CSO etc)
Collaborative & inclusive - APDev stakeholders
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NEED (contd.)
• Evidence and Knowledge– What is working and what is not working in CD– Entry points to meet CD requirements (new
interventions by African govt. and dev. partners)
– Financing for CD interventions– Opportunities for coordination, collaboration
and partnerships in interventions– What is new in CD (initiatives, practices,
strategies, methodologies)
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Capacity Development in Africa Report 2012
● Multi-agency innovation under auspices of the AU● Continental-regional-national-local levels● Focus on institutional capacity ● Feeds and draws on ongoing and planned
collaborative – inter-agency interventions (i.e. mainstreaming of CD into national planning, NPoA
implementation & AU CD Support Programme for RECs incl. Knowlegde-based capacities prog)
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What will the Africa-CDR do?
● CD challenges, Change readiness & improvement opportunities for enhanced institutional performance
● Bridge the CD knowledge and practice divide● Document and disseminate success stories for KE & learning● Highlight ongoing CD interventions and results by various
stakeholders and development partners● Share innovative approaches, tools etc● Seek audience with senior policy makers & practioners● Serve as an authoritative AU CD policy-practice knowledge
resource● Assist to raise the political and technical visibility of CD as a
driver of development effectiveness
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Comprehensive assessment of institutional capacity issues focusing on:• The development planning system looking at key structures
and processes that drive the national development agenda and how they relate to other stakeholders & private sector;
• Institutional framework for implementation, focusing on key development management institutions that drive the state and development, incl. the interface between public and private sector;
• The local governance system as the ultimate ‘client’ for development results;
• M & E of development results, and how lessons are fed into knowledge systems in generating new skills, long-term education, development-oriented research & innovation.
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Focus of Africa-CDR
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Increase Efficiency in Policy instruments
Development Goal
Development Actions
Administrative rules, laws, regulations, standards, and other formal incentives that a society uses to guide stakeholder actions to achieve its development goals
Systems, rules of action, processes, personnel and other resources that stakeholders bring together to achieve development goals
Improve Effectiveness of Organizational Arrangements
Strengthen Stakeholder Ownership
Comprises formal and informal political, economic and social forces that determine the priority that government, civil society, and the private sector give to specific development goals
Capacity for What?Key institutional changes
Adopted from WB and WBI
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STRUCTURE (contd.)
• Boxes– Good/Replicable Practice Cases
• CD initiatives• CD interventions• Approaches and Methodologies• Financing of CD interventions• Major Partnerships in CD• Performance Monitoring & Evaluation• Performance Measurement
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PRODUCTS
• Concept and Design of ACDR• Draft & Final Reports• Lessons Notes & Implementation Guides• Good/Replicable Practices
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Process and organization
Advisory BoardAUC / NEPAD Agency/Kenya & Partners
Technical Team- Technical experts
-Regional focal persons-Country level institutions/experts – profiling
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