EuropeAidCapacity Development support for CSOs

• CD as key driver of Aid & Development effectiveness• art 22 (Busan) CSOs : independent development actors

• CSOs are key national stakeholders: when we talk about support to national capacity we must include support to CSOs and NSAs besides support to the state and its insitutions

• CSOs

• Recipients: strenghten their own capacities to be able to play the role of development agents

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RecipientsRecipients

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Capacity is the ability of people, organisations and society as a whole to manage their affairs successfully = A means and an end

Capacity Development is the process by which people, organisations and society as a whole strengthen, create, adapt and maintain capacity over time = A process

Capacity Development Support refers to what outside partners (domestic or foreign) can do to support, facilitate or catalyse capacity development & related change processes = An input

Performance

CD Support Capacity Development

Capacity

A Result

An Input, an enabling

factor An endogenous Change Process Capacity

A Result

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Capacity: levels, types

Tangible and visible capacities

Technical skills, explicit knowledge and methodologies

Assets such as staff, equipment, infrastructure and money, technical systems, etc.

Empowerment and organisational attributes such as laws and regulations, structures, systems mandates and procedures

Strategic elements such as policies, legal and regulatory provisions, mandate and strategy

Intangible and invisible capacities

Organisational skills, culture and values

Change readiness and change managementConfidence, empowerment, participation for legitimacy to act

Relational skills: negotiation, teamwork, conflict resolution, Intercultural communication

Leadership, political relationships and functioning

Facilitation, problem solving skills Ability to learn from experience, Ability to analyse and adapt

EuropeAidHow to detect the CSOs Capacity Development demand?

Capacity for what?

• Self sustainability• Advocacy , Representation• Accountability and Oversight • Leadership, Governance • Political dialogue• Service provider (including CD)• Technical role, project execution• Communication

EuropeAidMain demand

CSOs often do not have the set of technical organizational analytical and adaptative capacities required to perform their development role effectively and assure their own survival

•Analytical and adaptive capacities•Effective leadership and governance•Enhance accountability and legitimacy•Resource mobilization•Capacity to influence•Generic-organizational skills•Thematic skills•Communication• Enabling environment•Build coalitions……

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Main stumbling points so far:

• Lack of ownership, supply driven

• Short term results, not sustainable

• Poorly designed, rigid

• Focus on project management

• Providing mainly training and TA

Need for a new approach/paradigm

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EuropeAidIn the EC practice: 5 Quality criteria :

Indicators of good CD

practice Quality ECCapacity

Development

2. 2. Demand and

adequate ownership

1. Fits the

context and existing capacity

3. Link to

outputs and expected outcomes

4. The support is

harmonised

5.The programme implementation arrangements

are appropriate

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Fits the context and existing capacity

Appropriate and comprehensive assessments are the essential first step for delivering effective CD support

Enabling situation

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The scope of assessments

CD Toolkit: tool 2 , tool 6

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• The partners should have overall leadership of the assessment process, particularly definition of priorities

• The role for the EC is not to bring in external TA to conduct the

assessment but to support and facilitate self-assessment through such means as:

o Facilitating dialogue and understanding about the readiness for change, the context, existing capacity and current change processes

o Ensuring all relevant stakeholders are involved

o Helping to establish baseline data about current capacity to enable effective monitoring and evaluation of results

o Exploring opportunities to harmonise and align through coordination with other donors

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Demand and adequate ownership

Capacity Development is an endogenous process that can be supported by donors

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Appealing vision

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Have a vision!

Can provide the basis for specifying capacity results

Can provide the basis for specifying capacity results

Would maybe

provide the basis for

specifying the overall capacity objective

Would maybe

provide the basis for

specifying the overall capacity objective

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Results orientation

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Credible change process

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The basic results chain

LogFrame for addressing capacity development in sectors or organisations

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Capacity development frameworks: the partner’s perspectives

EuropeAidNew forms of Capacity Development support!

Move from the classic provision of TC and training and go towards a more holistic approach that takes into consideration the organization as a whole and not only the individual capacity development

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Formulating capacity indicators

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Monitoring & evaluation

TC suppo

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CD processes

Recurrent inputs

CapacityResults Outcome

sWider impact

Internal

resour-ces Primary focus of evaluation

Primary focus of monitoring

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Overall results: 5 criteria implementation 2011

4 main implementing partners:

1.Technical Assistance private sector (AT)2.Shared Management (Twinning + European organisations3.Civil society (local and international NGOs)4.Joint Management (International and regional organisations)

Civil Society appears to have the best scoresCivil Society appears to have the best scores

EuropeAid2010 Toolkit for CD

1. Quick scanning matrix and process

checklist

2. Assessing organisational capacity

3. Partners’ roles in CD processes

4. Mapping sector and governance actors

5. Political economy and stakeholder

analysis

6. Change management

7. Sequencing and scoping of CD and

reform

8. Logical design of CD processes and

support to CD

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• Busan Aid and Development Effectiveness discussions have put emphasis on the link between CD and

Knowledge exchange :

• Knowledge sharing and innovation

o Transparency, access to information, interconnectedness

o Share lessons and challenges on capacity4dev

o In a fast changing world, new media are supporting collective change capacity