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Site for information about Capacity Building and
Institutional Development. Capacity.org is an initiative of the
European Centre for Development Policy Management with the aim to
look at policy and practice of capacity development within
international development cooperation.
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Capacity.org offers a range of services to users: A
quarterly "newsletter" comprising a welcome letter, guest
contributions, selected bibliography and abstracts of current
information;
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A virtual
library providing access to full text publications, stored in a
database and supported by a search facility;
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Hyperlinks to related web sites, including a list
of organisations active in the field of capacity building, and a
regular update of relevant programmes and
events. http://www.capacity.org
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Change Management Toolbook Nauheimer,
Holger. Although the Change Management Toolbook focuses mainly on
organisational development, it also contains useful hints on the
broader process of institutional development. It offers a broad
range of methods and strategies for use during different stages of
personal and organisational development. The site is inspired by
the 'learning organisations' philosophy expounded by Peter Senge.
It contains references to a large number of books on change
management. http://www.change-
management-toolbook.com/
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SNV Reference Guide on Local Governance:This
guide is a highly recommended source for policy makers and
practitioners working on Local Governance. It contains discussion
papers, case studies, tools, academic papers, as well as a list of
research institutes and resource persons. There are plenty useful
links to web sites. http://www.snvworld.org/and updated version 2003
available as CD-ROM by SNV: mpoel@snv.nl
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Mainstreaming institutional development: why is
it important and how can it be done? Bossuyt, Jean (2001).
Maastricht. European Centre for Development Policy Management
(ECDPM). This ECDPM paper argues that institutional development
should be fully integrated with all aspects of development
cooperation. In doing so, it is important to recognise that
institutional development: (i) reverses the usual cooperation
route; (ii) requires a comprehensive and coherent intervention
strategy; (iii) calls for profound reforms in the corporate culture
of donor agencies, and (iv) requires an implementation process that
can rely both on high-level political support and on the
participation of all key actors and stakeholders
concerned. http://www.ecdpm.org
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Managing for impact in Rural Development, a
guide for project M&E. Woodhill, J. & I. Guijt
(2002). Rome. International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD). The IFAD guide to project M&E is about using monitoring
and evaluation to improve the impact of (IFAD- supported) projects.
The focus is on a learning approach. The object is to create an
M&E system that helps primary stakeholders, implementing
partners and project staff to learn together in order to constantly
improve their development interventions. The guide contains
detailed information on more than 25 tools and
methods. http://www.ifad.org/evaluation/guide/
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Conducting Institutional and Organisational
Appraisal and Development. Guidelines for DFID and Sourcebook.
DFID Sourcebook (2003). The purpose of these DFID guidelines is to
help the reader identify any institutional problems that inhibit
organisational improvements, and to work out how to make the
necessary changes. Although the guidelines are based on DFID
experiences and have been written in a DFID context, they are
nevertheless of interest to all those involved in institutional
development. The guidelines are complemented by a sourcebook
containing a number of tools. http://capacity.org/fr/publications/
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Tools for development: a handbook for those
engaged in development activity. DFID (2002). Version 15. A
useful handbook containing development tools (such as stakeholder
analysis, problem and situational analysis, visioning, risk
management, influencing and negotiating) that can be applied to any
developmental activity or intervention http://www.dfid.gov.uk/FOI/tools/index.htm
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This searchable database contains over 650 proven
solutions to the common social, economic an environmental
problems of an urbanizing world. It demonstrates the practical
ways in which communities, governments and the private sector are
working together to eradicate poverty, provide shelter, protect the
environment and support economic development.
http://www.bestpractices.org
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Urban Settlement In Asia is a gateway that provides
information on urban planning and management in Asia. The
site provides a specific section on capacity building presents some
best practices initiatives and also provides a panel of training
courses and a search engine. www.hsd.ait.ac.th/web1.html
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The United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat) was established in 1978, two years after the United
Nations Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, Canada. Based
in Nairobi, Kenya, UNCHS (Habitat) is the lead agency within the UN
system for coordinating activities in the field of human
settlements. www.unchs.org and
www.unchs.org/programmes/tcbb/publications.asp. This site provides
some interesting UNCHS training materials in different
languages.
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FAO participation website: This website,
operated by the FAO's Informal Working Group on Participatory
Approaches and Methods, contains a great deal of detailed
information on participatory tools, methods and approaches. This is
presented in the form of one-page overviews (i.e. description,
source, purpose and applications, project phase, project level,
references and links to further information). It also contains
links to many other relevant sites, as well as descriptions of
lessons learned from practical experience with the tools presented
on the web site. http://www.fao.org/Participation
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Institutional partnership and cooperation
– institutional twinning: Now, more than ever, the skills
and resources many organizations need for their survival are found
in partnerships with others. For an organization to realize the
full potential of partnerships, it must be skilled not only at
finding and selecting partners, but also at forming and managing
the partnership. This handbook provides valuable information on
characteristics of successful partnerships, sample assessment
inventories, and questions to help you determine whether your
organization is ready to engage in a partnership.
http://www.trg-
inc.com/orgchange/coll_tip.htm
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