September 2011 Blog Posts (6)

The September 2011 issue of the World Bank Institute's magazine on “Open Development” is now available online. Essays by World Bank and external authors explore, among other topics, the trend to make governments more open and responsive to constituents’ needs,…

I will be presenting our experience in Iraq at the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA) at the upcoming annual conference this year in Pennsylvania, United States.

NASAGA is an association of training professionals that use simulations and games in their training activities in order to make them more effective, interactive, and just fun. The professionals that make up NASAGA are leaders in helping people learn. Many of them are on the leading edge of…

We are pleased to announce the publication of Issue 43 of Capacity.org, titled ‘Voices of Capacity Development’. It aims to make a practical contribution to the upcoming 4^th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan by sharing the perspectives of a broad range of Southern leaders on what constitutes true capacity development.

Through their diversity, the cases featured in Issue 43 convey a set of consistent messages and patterns:

• Capacity development…

A new political economy study identifies the strengths and opportunities as well as risks and obstacles for social accountability initiatives in Nepal. The study identifies successful examples of civil society organizations facilitating community-based M&E of public services and working directly with local authorities to reinforce implementation of existing…

August 2011 article

The Chilean Management Control and Evaluation System is internationally regarded as a successful example of how to put into place a M&E system. Chilean M&E tools are the product of both cross-national lesson drawing and national policy learning experiences.

The main M&E tools are centrally coordinated…

The publication is a practical, step-by-step user's guide on results-based capacity development. It is supported with actual case studies. The guide was sponsored by the Austral Foundation and is available on its website – www.australfoundation.org

http://www.australfoundation.org/publications.html