CHF Capacity Development Symposium
April 23rd, 2008
Canadian War Museum
1. Overview
On April 23rd, eighty delegates gathered in Ottawa for CHF’s Capacity Development Symposium, New Perspectives in North-South Partnerships.
The Symposium sought to engage both Canadian and Southern civil society on the practice of capacity development and its contribution to promoting more meaningful and effective North-South partnerships. It brought together representatives from a range of civil society organizations, as well as development practitioners, academics and policy-makers from around the world to share their experience in capacity development.
2. Download agenda, proceedings, and background papers
a. Agenda
c. Proceedings:
This short report provides a brief overview of all speakers’ and panelists’ presentations, with links to participants’ background papers, PowerPoint presentations and MP3s
d. Background Papers:
i. CIDA, Civil Society and Development – A Discussion Paper (Real Lavergne and Jacqueline Wood) Click here.
ii. The CHF Capacity Building Approach
iii. Capacity Building for NGOs: Making it Work (INTRAC, Rick James and John Hailey) Click here.iv. Lisa Bornstein: “Systems of accountability, webs of deceit? South African NGOs’ experience with monitoring and evaluation” Click here
3. Download PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ notes and multimedia
a. PowerPoint presentations and speaker’ notes
i. Keynote address: Ian Smillie
ii. Panel 1:
Recognition of the role of capacity development in civil society partnerships
1. Brian Pratt
2. Malex Alebikiya
3. Dr. Manzoor Awan
4. Dr. Lisa Bornstein
iii. Panel 2: Strengthening civil society as development actors – the practice of capacity development
1. Munish Persaud
2. Rabeya Yasmin
3. Mario Gonzalez and Real Lavergne
b. Podcasts
i. Introduction: Tony Breuer
ii. Keynote Address: Ian Smillie
iii. Panel 1: Recognition of the role of capacity development in civil society partnerships
1. Brian Pratt
2. Malex Alebikiya
3. Dr. Manzoor Awan
4. Dr. Lisa Bornstein
iv. Panel 2: Strengthening civil society as development actors – the practice of capacity development
1. Munish Persaud
2. Rabeya Yasmin
3. Mario Gonzalez
c. Photo gallery (coming soon)
4. Webcast of Keynote Speech
http://www.newswire.ca/en/webcast/viewEvent.cgi?eventID=2240700
5. Press Release
CHF Hosts International Symposium
6. Capacity Development Resources
CHF's Capacity Building Approach
The CHF Capacity Building Approach document articulates CHF's philosophy and approach to capacity building. It is based on 45 years of development experience and lessons learned from designing and implementing hundreds of projects with developing country partners throughout the world.
CHF's Capacity Building Approach document (PDF, 1 Mb)
Capacity Development: Key to North-South NGO Partnership?
In February 2008, the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), hosted the International Forum on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness in Gatineau. CHF was one of 10 Canadian NGOs invited to attend the forum. The document below was prepared for the forum to describe the lessons learned by CHF in its approach to capacity development of its southern NGO partners.
Capacity Development: Key to North-South NGO Partnership? (PDF, 1Mb)
IDRC: Strategic Evaluation on Capacity Development
The evaluation aims to clarify what IDRC actually means by “building capacity,” then looks back at the organization’s real work to gage whether – in its own terms – it has succeeded in doing so.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-70623-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
ECDPM produces Capacity.org, a regular online ‘magazine’ on capacity development
www.capacity.org
INTRAC (Oxford, U.K.) International NGO Training and Research Centre
INTRAC has over 15 years' experience providing consultancy, research and training services in the UK, and abroad. Its focus includes building local institutional capacity of southern partners. Their site has a number of papers on CD and organizational development, including regular INTRAC publications.
http://www.intrac.org/
Impact Alliance, Connecting Capacity for Social Change
Impact Alliance is a global action network which seeks to advance social change through capacity development. It promotes collaborative learning, innovation and social entrepreneurship and has a large collection of capacity development resources online (articles etc. on CD themes, tools, research projects).
http://www.impactalliance.org/ev_en.php