CoP-MfDR-Africa

All Blog Posts (44)

Search Blog Posts

copafrica The CLEAR Initiative - Call for Expressions of Interest


… Continue

Added by copafrica on March 11, 2010 at 11:06am — No Comments

African CoP The role of parliamentarians in the changing aid architecture - focus on South-South Cooperation // An Eurodad article

Parliamentarians in democratic societies play a crucial role in ensuring budgetary oversight, budgets that in developing countries often consist of a high proportion of international development aid. By ensuring aid funds are accounted for and transparently spent to benefit those who are most in need, parliamen

… Continue

Added by African CoP on March 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

African CoP New AfCoP Strategy

In January 2010, the AfCoP’s Core Management Team members acknowledged that the objectives of the first three-year plan have been achieved and have agreed on a new strategic direction for the community (concept note available… Continue

Added by African CoP on March 8, 2010 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

African CoP Ghana - Initiative to Strengthen Public Expenditure Accountability Begins

Published in Accra Mail - The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) and it

… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 28, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

African CoP ECOWAS: Public Service Innovation Award

Ministers of Public Service will meet on Monday, 22nd February 2010 at the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja to launch the All Africa Public Service Innovation Awards (AAPSIA).

The AAPSIA is one of the thematic areas within a broad African Union (AU) programme of the 6th Conference of A

… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 25, 2010 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Sheka Bangura Accountability in the Age of Results: a Post-War Context

Accountability, understood as an obligation to share information about the implementation of a project by a public institution, is at the forefront for many African countries. In a post-war country, like mine, Sierra Leone, it becomes even more crucial… Continue

Added by Sheka Bangura on February 25, 2010 at 12:36pm — 1 Comment

African CoP How to Initiate a Performance Framework in Budgeting?

Switching from line-item budgeting to program-based budgeting (PBB) – a major step toward establishing a performance framework in budgeting – proves to be a lengthy process that requires to follow a clear sequenced action for reforms. Many African countries are already using Medium Term Expenditure Framework and… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 24, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

African CoP Challenges of Public Administration Capacity Building in a Post-Conflict Country. An Interview with Dr C. William Allen from Liberian Civil Service Agency.

Dr. C. William Allen has been the Director General of Liberia’s Civil Service Agency (CSA) since March 2006. He responds to the AfCoP’s questions on the challenges of buildingcapacity and fostering new management methods in his post-conflict country’s public administration… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 14, 2010 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

African CoP Call for Abstracts: Challenges of Program Evaluation Practice in Africa

The purpose of this announcement is to propose the production of a collective book on the challenges of program evaluation in Africa, regardless of the type of sector addressed (health, education, agriculture, etc.). This book is intended to be a critical and reflective analysis of how evaluations are conducted in Africa and what the challenges are of such practice. Through this process, the editors (Valéry Riddle, Seni Kouanda and Jean-François Kobiané) wish to enable francophone publications t… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 8, 2010 at 1:20pm — No Comments

African CoP The 2010 MES International Evaluation Conference

The 4th Malaysian Evaluation Society (MES) International Evaluation Conference will be held from 29 March - 2 April, 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

It is an opportunity to share experiences on the most current issues in evaluation and Managing for Development Results (MfDR). Its program is available… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 4, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Adam Watson Kenyan Government Launches E-ProMIS Training

Ministry of Finance and Treasury Introduces Transparent Project Monitoring System NAIROBI, KENYA –The Ministry of Finance and Treasury of the Republic of Kenya has launched government-wide training for the Electronic Projects Monitoring System (e-ProMIS) - a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation system for the government to improve efficiency and transparency of government- and donor-funded development programs and projects. The e-ProMIS, developed by Synergy International Systems and jointl… Continue

Added by Adam Watson on February 1, 2010 at 5:35pm — No Comments

African CoP Free Training on Global Health

The courses on this site are free and available to all who are interested. Current technical information for global health professionals The Global Health eLearning Center developed by the USAID Bureau of Global Health is a… Continue

Added by African CoP on February 1, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

African CoP Summary of the January Core Management Team Meetings


Meetings of the AfCoP Core Management Team (CMT) were convened in January.

… Continue

Added by African CoP on January 29, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

African CoP Free eCourse -Fundamentals of Project Management

PM4DEV provides a free online course on Fundamentals of Project Management. This course is a "simple way to learn the basic elements of modern project management concepts that are required by international development organizations dedicated to assistance and humanitarian relief." It includes practical insights on the key skills a project manager must learn to be effective in reaching the project objectives and how organizations can… Continue

Added by African CoP on January 11, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

African CoP Job Offer: Senior Social Scientist - Ethiopia

I am current acting on behalf of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI www.iwmi.cgiar.org) that is headquartered in Battaramulla, Sri Lanka, with offices across Africa and Asia, to assist them with the recruitment of strategically important position. IWMI is currently seeking a Senior Social Scientist. The appointed individual will have PhD in the field of Political Ecology, Human Geography, Sociology, Anthropology or Governance coupled with… Continue

Added by African CoP on January 8, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

African CoP Connecting communities of practice?

In the December issue of the Capacity.org’s newsletter, one article is dedicated to com… Continue

Added by African CoP on January 7, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

African CoP Managing for HIV Results in Lungujja Community

By Maxensia Takirambule

In 2009, Lungujja Community Health Caring Organization (LUCOHECO) reached the 4 year mark since its launch as a community service. It is a key moment to highlight the management challenges of achieving results on HIV, restoration of hope to the very ill and social support systems in Lungujja Parish, Uganda. I formed LUCOHECO i… Continue

Added by African CoP on December 17, 2009 at 4:18pm — No Comments

African CoP The State of Statistics in Africa and Senegal. An Interview with M. Babakar Fall

Mr. Babakar Fall has been Director General of Senegal’s National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD) since March 2006. Here are his answers to AfCoP’s questions following the meetings of the PARIS21 Consortium (November 16-18) and the Fifth Africa Symposium on Statistical Development (November 19-21, held in Senegal. It is the full version of hi… Continue

Added by African CoP on December 16, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

African CoP New Capacity Development Strategic Framework from NEPAD and the African Union

The African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) have just recently released a new Capacity Development Strategic Framework. In its foreword, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD Secretariat, explains that "the Framework calls for a necessary paradigm shift in approaching capacity development." This document emphasizes… Continue

Added by African CoP on December 14, 2009 at 6:02pm — No Comments

African CoP Results-Based Budgeting at the Asia Pacific CoP Annual Meeting

The Asia-Pacific Community of Practice (AsCoP) on Managing for Development Results (MfDR) conducted its annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 22-25 November 2009, with an emph… Continue

Added by African CoP on December 14, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Featured Blog Posts

View All

Latest Blog Posts

Most Popular Blog Posts

Blog Topics by Tags

Monthly Archives

2010

2009

Latest Activity

song minyem jean emile added a group
Cameroon COP
Promote MDR
10 hours ago
Anne W. Ndirangu, Abong Mundi, Paul Aruna Sengeh and 1 more joined CoP-MfDR-Africa
yesterday
song minyem jean emile is now a member of CoP-MfDR-Africa
Welcome Them!
on Wednesday
Bimerew Alemu commented on African CoP's blog post 'New AfCoP Strategy'
Dear friends Greetings Strategic direction you mentioned is a good thinking. Apart from human capacity institutional capacity building is essential. What I am not clear is how to relate the activities with the public sector work being implemented i…
on Wednesday

Groups

© 2010   Created by copafrica

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy  |  Terms of Service

Sign in to chat!