Capacity Development

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Crisis Prevention and Recovery Report 2008: Post-Conflict Economic Recovery - Enabling Local Ingenuity

Post-conflict economic recovery aims to establish sustainable economic growth and human development while addressing the factors that could lead to a recurrence of conflict.  Post-conflict recovery is not about restoring pre-war economic or institutional arrangements.  It is about more

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Does Capacity Matter? Capacity Development Group Report 2009

This publication provides trends and programme engagement at country level, which looks at capacity development as a continuum of results and shares the initiatives and learning across themes and regions as well as throughout the United Nations system. more

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Empowering Lives, Building Resilience

This publication features success stories from countries where UNDP support has resulted in transformative changes, including by fostering the growth of institutional and human capacities.   To qualify as a transformational success, a story needed to demonstrate tangible and sustainable more

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Europe and CIS Regional Human Development Report 2008

The human cost of social exclusion   The report draws on data from an innovative six-country research study conducted by UNDP together with Oxford University researchers and local social research institutes and organisations of people living with HIV that looked at exclusion in the health, more

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Fast Facts: Development Finance and Aid Effectiveness

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) advocates for donors to scale up aid and technical support in developing countries in order to support faster progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. In doing so, UNDP provides advice and support to institutions in developing countries to more

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Fast Facts: Public-Private Partnerships for Service Delivery

Effective delivery of basic services, particularly to the poor, is a key to success in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).  These services include safe water supply, sanitation, energy, primary education and health care.  Furthermore, statistics show that women, more

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Guidance Note: UNDP's Role in Achieving MDG 5: Improve Maternal Health

This Guidance Note describes and explains UNDP’s role in supporting key  partners to accelerate and sustain progress on MDG 5. It outlines three pillars of UNDP action to improve maternal and reproductive health; highlights initial lessons learned from UNDP efforts in this area; and offers more

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Handbook for Conducting Technology Needs Assessment for Climate Change

This advance document of the updated Technology Needs Assessment Handbook (TNA) provides a detailed framework for the development and implementation of technology needs assessments and in particular in the development of technology programmes and strategies in developing countries. more

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Implementing-the-Paris-Declaration-on-Aid-Effectiveness

UNDP’s engagement on capacity development and strengthening ownership UNDP’s involvement in the Paris Declaration process is two-pronged: 1) to engage on development cooperation issues, specifically the quality of aid, within the context of the achievement of the MDGs and other internationally more

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Knowledge Services and Learning

This Note is one in a series of papers examining various aspects of capacity development, and addresses the role that could be played by UNDP and interested development partners, specifically in knowledge services and learning. Within this Capacity Development strategy for Knowledge Services and more

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Capacity Development

The task of cutting world poverty in half is not happening fast enough. As the deadline for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, the delivery of poverty reduction plans has stalled in too many countries, often due to limited capacity to address poverty effectively.

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Capacity Development: A UNDP Primer
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This primer provides a simple, cogent and accessible illustration of the UNDP Capacity Development Approach for the benefit of development practitioners both within and beyond the UN development system.

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Measuring Capacity
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This paper presents a framework for better defining, capturing and communicating capacity development results. The framework begins with the end in mind – national development goals.

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The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

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