All Blog Posts Tagged 'newsflash' (12)

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!

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It is with great pleasure that we, the AfCoP’s Core Management Team who-guides-the-direction-of AfCoP, see the tremendous growth of our community. With over 1,000 members, we feel more compelled than ever to guide the Community toward increased impact and results throughout Africa. We realize our responsibility to best conduct the Community. Since the AfCoP’s inception in February 2007 and the creation of its online platform seven months later, members have been asking questions, offering advice… Continue

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

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

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Last month, three AfCoP members joined the Core Management Team (CMT) conference call. The CMT is grateful to them and invites again all AfCoP members to join directly its monthly conference calls.These meetings are primarily focused on discussing the implementation of the AfCoP workplan and next steps. We also invite you to suggest items to add to this meeting agenda by Monday, November 16th. The ang… Continue

Last month, AfCoP Core Management Team (CMT) prepared with all AfCoP members its team meetings and received valuable inputs from them. In an effort to increase transparency and participation in the AfCoP management, the CMT invites all AfCoP members to join directly its monthly conference calls.These meetings are primarily focused on discussing the implementation of the AfCoP workplan and next steps. T… Continue

The text reproduced below is the foreword of the August issue of the AfCoP Newsletter. By Abdou Karim Lo and Devendra Parsad Ruhee Countries and organizations are facing similar challenges in implementing Managing for Development Results (MfDR). Roundtables on MfDR and Source-books are already allowing practitioners from all over the world to share knowledge, best practices, and provide fodder to build strategies tailored to their local realities. As MfDR practitioners, we believe that… Continue

Dear colleagues, As you may know, the 24 AfCoP Core Management Team members (CMT) meet monthly over the phone to discuss the progress made on the AfCoP yearly workplan. The CMT is made up for four teams (Networking, Membership & Communication, Capacity Building & Knowledge Management, and Monitoring & Evaluation). This month, the CMT will be meeting in their teams to discuss specific eleme… Continue

African MfDR case studies are unfolding LIVE on the AfCoP website, for the first time ever! One of the key pillars of the AfCoP on MfDR is its online platform, developed to be a central hub for sharing experiences and developing MfDR capacity. It is therefore, natural that its first Sourcebo… Continue

Report on the three workshops: Paris-Washington-Tunis OECD/DAC Evaluation Network Meeting, June 14-15, 2009 OECD, Paris, France They have invited me to represent the African Community of Practice and my country, Ethiopia and present them the AfCoP’s work on M&E capacity development work in the community and also briefed them about what AfCoP is. Besides, I did present the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) activities in the Ethiopian Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. And… Continue

Several development organizations recently talked about the AfCoP. Check us out on these sites: On Development Gateway (also known as Zunia.org) Communications for Governance & Accountability Program The International Organization of the Francophonie… Continue

Dear Colleagues, Welcome to our AfCoP Newsflash blog. Here you will find all of the latest information, news, events, and MfDR related activities of the AfCoP! Enjoy! Continue