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African CoP Launch of the Malian CoP on MfDR

The Malian Community of Practice in Managing for Development Results (CoP-Mali/MfDR) was launched on April 22, 2010, in Bamako, Mali, with the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB). The highlight of this national event was the holding of the CoP-Mali/MfDR constitutional assembly, where participants adopted CoP-Mali/MfDR’s charter and f

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Added by African CoP on July 7, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

African CoP The Rapid Results Method in Burundi

“We are charting a new course, whose aim is to promote dynamic leadership, for we must meet the challenge of good governance. This means revitalizing the national company for production and distribution of electricity and water (or REGIDESO for Régie de Production et de Distribution d’Eau et d’Electricité), organizing it to meet criteria of

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Added by African CoP on July 6, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

African CoP AfCoP Casebook 2010


Managing for Development Results: A Focus on Africa
AfCoP Casebook – June 2010
The African Community of Practice on Managing for Development Results

The casebook is now available for download here!

"Strong and effective i… Continue

Added by African CoP on June 21, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments

African CoP Development Data Freed Up

On April 20, 2010, the doors to World Bank’s statistical databases have been thrown. Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the multilateral development bank is now providing free, open, and easy access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe.

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Added by African CoP on May 6, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

Tayani Vincent Banda CAP-Scan Exercise in the Energy Sector of Malawi

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Added by Tayani Vincent Banda on April 6, 2010 at 9:41am — No Comments

African CoP Civil service role linked to effective government performance

17 March 2010 - Today - The active role of the civil service is necessary to bolster efforts aimed at delivering governance promises.

This was said yesterday by Dr. Njogu Bah, The Gambia's secretary general and head of the Civil Service at the opening o

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Added by African CoP on March 17, 2010 at 2:39pm — No Comments

copafrica The CLEAR Initiative - Call for Expressions of Interest


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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

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Added by African CoP on March 9, 2010 at 3:30pm — 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

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

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

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 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 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

copafrica E-Learning Africa: Submission of Proposals

eLearning Africa is the premier gathering place for all experts and stakeholders engaged or interested in ICT-based education, training and development on the African continent. Everyone concerned with eLearning in Africa is welcome to share and learn. We encourage practitioners and academics engaged in an African context to apply by submitting a proposal. Please note that successful applicants will be offered a significantly r… Continue

Added by copafrica on November 16, 2009 at 12:36pm — No Comments

copafrica The Turin 2009 Learning Link

From the 7-11 of December the International Training Centre of the ILO, in collaboration with the European Training Foundation and InWEnt - Capacity Building International, will host the first ever Learning Link. This weeklong programme is being designed in collaboration with many diverse partners to create an agenda that is inclusive, engaging and action oriented. The Turin 2009 Learning Link was conceived as one point along the process of c… Continue

Added by copafrica on November 16, 2009 at 11:33am — No Comments

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Tamirat Yacob replied to Hannah J Cooper's discussion 'PRSPs: A 10 year Retrospective on Results'
Dear Hannah, Greetings! Thank you for initiating and leading this interesting topic discusion. The questions that you have put forward are thought provoking and i tried to address the questions as much as possible as far as the Ethiopian experienc…
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Abiyot Dagne replied to Hannah J Cooper's discussion 'PRSPs: A 10 year Retrospective on Results'
1. Yes, Ethiopia has its own national plan, which mainly focuses on poverty eradication as replied before .Although the PRSP process started in2000 as a process largely between government and the donors, it has now evolved beyond that, and the PASDE…
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Tapani Vaahtoranta and Wail Fahmi Bedawi joined CoP-MfDR-Africa
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Mugunga Matabaro replied to Hannah J Cooper's discussion 'PRSPs: A 10 year Retrospective on Results'
1) Yes, Rwanda has a PRSP/National Development Plan, 2) and 3) Yes, the M & E plan is operational as the Department of Statistics and the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit within MINECOFIN are jointly responsible for the general coordination of…
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Mugunga Matabaro replied to Hannah J Cooper's discussion 'PRSPs: A 10 year Retrospective on Results'
Rwanda PRSP goals are in line with the MDGs, with clear targets for poverty reduction over time. Some progress has been made toward achieving some of the MDGs. For example, access to health services has improved and the Government is likely to achie…
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Rwakurumbira Munyaradzi commented on Rwakurumbira Munyaradzi's blog post 'Zimbabwe Launches Community of Practice on MfDR'
Thank you all for the appreciation. We hope we will always receive your support and sharing of experiences so that our CoP grows to meet its goals. Thank you very much.
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Tayani Vincent Banda commented on Rwakurumbira Munyaradzi's blog post 'Zimbabwe Launches Community of Practice on MfDR'
Solomon Indeed s other have said this is great stuff! I was previledged to participate in the launch and I must say I was impressed with the crossesction of people participated in the formation of the ZimCoP! There is government support at the Highe…
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Hannah J Cooper replied to Hannah J Cooper's discussion 'PRSPs: A 10 year Retrospective on Results'
Dear Colleagues, First, many thanks to Sheka and to Abiyot, for providing and in depth overview of their country’s PRSP/National Development Strategy. Sheka it is very interesting that you note that “If you get M&E right at the base level input-ou…
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George Kararach replied to George Kararach's discussion 'ACBF Series – Mobilizing Capacity for Post-Conflict Reconstruction & Results'
Thanks James. So why is it that these governments do not work with partners to ensure effective mentoring programs? What alternative knowledge management mechanisms should fragile countries adopt to allow for project sustainability and of course dev…
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Basil Jones and TAIYE RUTH AINA joined CoP-MfDR-Africa
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James F. Kollie, Jr. PhD replied to George Kararach's discussion 'ACBF Series – Mobilizing Capacity for Post-Conflict Reconstruction & Results'
This is very interesting topic for discussion and I am pleased to bring my experience from Liberia to bear on this topic: 1. The complexity and dynamics of reconstruction in post-conflict and fragile environments lead to interventions from multiple…
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Dr. Rosa Muraguri-Mwololo commented on Rwakurumbira Munyaradzi's blog post 'Zimbabwe Launches Community of Practice on MfDR'
Well done Solomon- we are slowly getting to the tipping point. I hope you will have a chance of sharing some of the challenges you encountered and what others should watch if they want to have a successful launch. All the best-
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Oumarou sali joined copafrica's group
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A place for members to submit documents and articles to the AfCoP electronic library.
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Oumarou sali replied to George Kararach's discussion 'ACBF Series – Mobilizing Capacity for Post-Conflict Reconstruction & Results'
Hello Dear Sheka i want to thank you for your contribution and your strong analyze.Your point exactly what i wanted to demonstrate in my masters degree thesis oriented on result based management. Well as you mentioned ,there is no coordination betwe…
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Jean-Christophe Dalka and Nosiku Kalonga joined CoP-MfDR-Africa
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Devendra Parsad Ruhee added a blog post
The Socio-Economic Governance and Management Branch (SGMB) of the United Nations’ Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM/DESA) organized an international workshop on “Engaging Citizens in Development Management and P…
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