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Because of its nature and mandate, the DAC has been focusing on providing a forum to DAC member countries, key multilateral partners and partner countries to share experience, promote joint learning, and seek common action strategies for capacity development. To implement its capacity development initiative, The DAC has working closely with two partners:

• The Southern-led CD Alliance: a Southern-led forum that represents partner country political advocacy on capacity development
• The Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD): an informal network of analysts and practitioners aimed at creating a global community of practice, with a focus on empirical learning
• The UNDP Capacity Development Group, which has been established to more systematically address support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to national and local capacity development
• The World Bank Institute, which aims to foster better results from capacity development initiatives by the World Bank and its partners.

Together, we have also established linkages with several other partners within and outside of the donor community, including - among others:

• New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), to support the implementation of its Capacity Development Strategic Framework (pdf, 728 kB)
• European Commission to support the reform of technical co-operation – to make it more effective for capacity development. As a part of this effort, in October 2009, the European Commission launched www.capacity4dev.eu, an interactive website which supports the EC effort to reform its approach to technical co-operation. Capacity4dev is an open forum aimed at delivering news, guidance, case studies on good or innovative practice through various interactive outlets.
• Asian Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE)
• African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

The unit dedicated to capacity development in the DAC Secretariat works to promote greater coherence and experience sharing within the OECD on the topic of capacity development.

Please click here to see a list of others working on Capacity Development.

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