Comprehensive Capacity Development: Moving Beyond Training as the Default
Published in SAGE Publishing and the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development on August 22, 2019. It is written by Martina Zapf, Nora Refaeil and Bernardo Arévalo de León.
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Peace and Development Analysis. Findings & Emerging Priorities . Analytical Report prepared by IPAT for the UN in Papua New Guinea – Spreads
A Peace and Development Analysis (PDA) was conducted in 2013 for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea as a collaborative effort of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG), the UN in Papua New Guinea through the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and its office in Bougainville, Interpeace and 1,100 crosssection of Bougainvilleans through the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. This Peace and Development Analysis paper is a think piece prepared by Interpeace for the UN in Papua New Guinea. It is not the end but the beginning of the conversation.
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – Why – The Limited Value-for-Money of International Technical Cooperation, Capacity-Development and Institutional Reform Support
‘Technical Cooperation’ or ‘Technical Assistance’, mostly in the form of international experts and advisors, and loans and grants for ‘institutional reform’ constitute a huge share of official development assistance. Yet a growing body of comparative and cumulative evaluations, further bolstered by academic research, show that its overall effectiveness in terms of better functioning governments, is [...]
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – Thinking and Working Politically
Social and economic development, organizational development and institutional reform, statebuilding and peacebuilding, the delivery of social services and other public goods etc. are not solely ‘technical’ challenges. Around each of these and related issues we find competing interests, power asymmetries, perceptions about who benefits and loses from the status quo and from possible or proposed [...]
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – The 5 Capabilities Framework
‘Capacities’ can exist at different levels: that of an individual (which we then will call ‘competencies’), a team, a unit within an organization, an organization as a whole. We are looking here at ‘capacity’ for an organization as a whole.
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – Public Participation and Citizen Engagement
This document explores the importance of public participation and citizen engagement on issues of public importance.
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – Understanding and Working with Power
Anyone interested in ‘change’ has an interest in understanding ‘power’, because ‘power’ is both one of the constraining factors to change and one of its enablers. This paper discusses the importance of understanding and working with power in multi-stakeholder processes.
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – Doing Development Differently
This document focuses on the ‘3Ds’ of ‘Doing Development Differently,’ in other words on how development (state and institution building and institutional reform) is done.
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Effective Advising in Statebuilding and Peacebuilding Contexts – How – The Art of Asking Catalytic Questions
Asking powerful, compelling questions that matter is a central skill of an adviser, mentor or coach, or of a thought leader, seeking to catalyze in others the energies to develop competencies and capacities and to move towards a stronger future. This paper looks at the art of asking catalytic questions as a key element of [...]
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The Overall Record Of Technical Assistance For Institutional And Governance Reform
This working paper was developed following the 2014 Effective Advising course and looks at the concept of "technical assistance" for institutional and governance reform.