March 2012 Blog Posts (8)

With the global population expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050, there has been growing attention at the highest policy circles to the contribution of small-scale agriculture to food security and poverty eradication. However, the creation of an enabling framework towards this end has been hampered by contradictory approaches and policy ''pendulum swings" over the past few decades that have seen national and international efforts focus alternately on 'rights-based' and 'market-based' support…

Mark Downes, Head of the International Security Sector Advisory Team (ISSAT), wrote the following on the need for multidisciplinary capacity:

"You don't send a doctor to rebuild a…

OECD has released the publication, Greening Development: Enhancing Capacity for Environmental Management and Governance. This report outlines a number of steps to be considered when building capacity for…

The Indian skills landscape is complex, and for newcomers it can seem overwhelming. For readers just getting to grips with this, we thought a post summarising the main organisations and structures would be useful. This isn’t comprehensive but we hope it is a good starting point. 

The two key government ministries dealing with skills development are the …

Following my earlier blog post outlining the skills landscape in India, I thought to take a broad overview of four of the biggest challenges facing skills development in the country. We (between Chris and me) have already touched on some of these in previous posts, but over the next few blog posts we'll be looking at each of these in a bit more detail. We'd love to hear your views on any of this (or on our earlier blog posts – or indeed about anything on the Manipal-City & Guilds…

TUDEP is a learning tool meant to support trade unions worldwide in the application of the effectiveness principles in their everyday development cooperation practice.

Last month, I attended a presentation of DCAF’s new book Back to Roots: Security Sector Reform and Development  by Albrecht Schnabel et al . Having mostly worked at the coalface of SSR, I was buoyed by this book’s leap into some of the existential surroundings of SSR. It explores opportunities for strengthening positive reinforcement loops in the SSR-Development…

Dear colleagues

kindly find attached for your consideration/further distribution a new Vacancy Announcement for a P-4 level position based in Rome. Project Coordinator (Capacity Development for Investment).

The project aims to support countries to develop high quality national agricultural investment plans and programmes in the context of Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Capacity development support should enable key national actors to prepare…