Links to Capacity Development, Organisational Change and Knowledge Management

Gateways

Support Program for Institutional & Capacity Development (SPICAD) resource portal, from Wageningen International. Has a good set of links to resources on capacity development, and organisational development and change, among other related topics.

ILAC - Institutional Learning and Change Initiative "aims to increase the contribution of the CGIAR to poverty alleviation by improving planning, monitoring and evaluation of collaborative agricultural research for development". Publications, library, excellent series of "ILAC Briefs", and more...

ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR promotes and supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to support the work of the CGIAR. Particularly worth a visit is their knowledge sharing toolkit site, with both online and offline methods and tools.

Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) - "where all knowledge management enthusiasts and development practitioners are connected". Join in!

Capacity building. Set of links provided by the comprehensive Australian Development Gateway.

Capacity.Org. Broad ranging gateway on Capacity Development, from the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), The Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Articles, newsletter, interesting "resource corners", etc. Versions in French and Spanish.

How does SIDA work with capacity development? With links to Links to Sida's Working Papers on Capacity Development.

The African Capacity Building Foundation. An independent, capacity-building institution established by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and African governments and bilateral donors.

Capacity Building guide, from OneWorld.net. The NGO perspective on Capacity Building in the developing world.

The Knowledge Management Resource Center. Excellent gateway to the topic. Mainly US and business-based, but no less useful for that.

Performance, Learning, Leadership, & Knowledge. Hard to know how to describe this site: "quirky" perhaps. Covers all sorts of interesting stuff with lots of good resources. Go browse around...

Articles, Manuals

Capacity Development: Why, What and How. From CIDA (Canada) website on capacity development. Useful 9 page introduction from CIDA and lead issue of their occasional series on capacity development.

Systemic capacity building: a hierarchy of needs. Useful overview article by Christopher Potter and Richard Brough; good stuff, albeit from a health sector perspective.

Personal and Institutional Factors in Capacity Building and Institutional Development by J.C.N. Mentz, University of South Africa

SIDA “Institutions and poverty reduction: An introductory exploration” 42 page Working Paper by SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) 2001 42 page Working Paper by SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) 2001

Transforming Higher Education for Agricultural Development

Reshaping Tertiary Agricultural Education. A good collection of downloadable materials and links to other sites. Part of the website of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) on “Demanding Innovation”. Don't miss the good collection of reports for the ACP countries.

Sustainability, Education and the Management of Change in Africa (SEMCA) "A Community of Practice linking all those interested in transforming African agricultural tertiary education to produce graduates and research relevant to poverty reduction in rural communities in a modern, globalised, knowledge era.

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is an initiative by a consortium of universities in east and southern Africa to foster innovativeness and adaptive capacity of universities engaged in agricultural and rural development.

Sustainability, Education and Management of Change in the Tropics. Interesting project coordinated from Earth University in Costa Rica, with the mission to "Foster leadership and change in the tropics through innovative models of higher education in agriculture and natural resources relevant to our common social, economic and environmental needs". Outputs from an series of seminars in Asia, Africa and Norway are available.

Learning and teaching for transformation —A global dialogue exploring relationships between education, participation and social change. Website produced by the Participation, Power and Social Change Team at IDS with objective "to enhance the capacity of institutions of higher learning to develop and deliver effective education programs that contribute to a wider transformation of individuals, institutions and society". Good resources, case studies, discussions.

Curriculum Development

Participatory curriculum development study: A training manual by Alan Rogers and Peter Taylor. A collaboration between the University of Reading, United Kingdom and the Extension, Education and Communication Service of FAO. (full manual currently only available in French - English to be added soon. Meanwhile you can read...

10 key stages towards effective participatory curriculum development: Participatory approach to curriculum development in a Social Forestry context. By P. Taylor. Link to full document (53 pages) available.

Developing agroforestry curricula: a practical guide for Academic Institutions in Africa and Asia. By Per Rudebjer, August B Temu and James Kung'u. Very practical guide downloadable from the World Agroforestry Centre.

Monitoring and Evaluating Impact in CD Programmes

"Emerging Patterns in the capacity development puzzle: Why, what and when to measure?" . Also, IDRC Strategic Evaluation of Capacity Development "Doing things better? How capacity development results help bring about change". Both articles by Alfredo Ortiz and Peter Taylor (2008), from the IDS. Useful and thought provoking articles.