The past decade has witnessed a strong, steady and increasingly unified global call to action to improve the results of capacity development. Consensus is emerging around key principles of country-led...
The right to privacy and the right to information are both essential human rights in the modern information society. For the most part, these two rights complement each other in holding governments accountable...
Fragile countries face deep institutional constraints that require attention to achieve better development outcomes for their citizens. Underlying issues such as fragmented development efforts across sectors...
This report presents a review of current practices on the disclosure of information on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects and contracts from 11 jurisdictions at the national and sub-national level...
This set of guidance notes is designed to support practitioners and evaluators in conducting retrospective evaluations of a capacity development intervention or portfolio to assess and document results...
Ownership of development goals and priorities by local stakeholders is widely viewed as a critical factor impacting development effectiveness and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
Check My School (CMS) is a community monitoring project that aims to promote transparency and social accountability in the Philippine education sector by tracking the provision of services in public schools...
World Bank Institute (WBI) works to improve the understanding, practice and results of capacity development, an important way to support development goals and priorities for aid effectiveness. WBI developed...
An intermediate capacity outcome (ICO) is an improvement in the ability or disposition of stakeholders (or agents of change) to take actions. This improvement is considered an intermediate capacity outcome...
Capacity development is widely accepted as critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and other development outcomes, but the results from capacity development initiatives have often...
Capacity is often seen to be the principal constraint to development, and each year aid donors spend more than $30 billion globally to address this issue. However, most capacity development efforts fail...
Three broad areas of institutional capacity and their contributing characteristics can help development practitioners to assess institutional capacity needs, inform program design and measure progress...
Capacity is the ability of individuals, organizations, state institutions, coalitions, and society itself to catalyze change to achieve their development objectives. Capacity development is therefore a...
This guide emphasizes empowering local agents through experiential learning with peers from their own and other countries by following a strategic, results-oriented approach to learning based on the World...
Urbanization is the defining phenomenon of the 21st century. For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities with 90 percent of growth taking place in the developing...
Carbon Finance Assist (CF-Assist) is a corporate program of the World Bank designed to help developing countries and economies in transition participate more effectively in the rapidly growing carbon market...
The Capacity Development Results Framework (CDRF or the Framework) is a powerful new approach to the design, implementation, monitoring, management, and evaluation of development programs. Originally conceived...
Effective legislatures are fundamental to promoting good governance and are a critical component in a country's overall governance framework. Although differences exist across government systems, legislatures...
Approaches to urban slums are a multimedia sourcebook that comprises 14 self-running audiovisual presentations and 18 video interviews. It is organized into four broad sections: adaptive approaches, proactive...
Effective legislatures are fundamental to promoting good governance and are a critical component in a country's overall governance framework. Although differences exist across government systems, legislatures...