Background
0 Accelerate development through innovative policy
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combining economic development with humanitarian
rights
Principled inclusive partnerships
Capacitate institutions to strengthen performance
RCB project innovation is to use SS peer learning to
improve capacity of public services to deliver
Common experience – region, post conflict, struggle,
colonial, limited resources, poor delivery
Enabling local PSTIs to build capacity and identify
indigenous solutions
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Modelling empowered SS
capacity development
EQUALITY
WILL
EMPOWERMENT
Over delivery and the
distribution of resources
Control
SKILLS
In decision-making,
planning, management,
administration and
evaluation
Participation
To services,
opportunities and
projects
Access
SPACE
Strengthen development effectiveness by exploring and learning from processes
that increase levels of access, participation and control over decision-making
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and the distribution of resources for development.
RBC Project Partners
RIAM
ENA
CBU
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The RCB Project
0 Five year capacity building project funded by CIDA (CAD
10.5 million or ZAR 70 million)
0 Improve public service capability through institutional
capacity development and training
0 Outcomes:
0 Strengthened institutional capacity of PALAMA, and increased
capacity within PALAMA to engage in regional capacity
building programmes.
0 Improved curriculum development and training capacity
within partner MDIs.
0 Improved management and leadership capabilities across
government departments in Rwanda, Burundi and Southern
Sudan.
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The RCB Project
0 Approach - sustainable development, comprehensive
learning cycle, “learning by doing” , participatory,
indigenization
0 Relevance to context by taking country strategies,
policies and legislative frameworks in account, as well
as the utilization and development of local expertise
0 Implementation delayed over the past year due to
restructuring
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Beginnings and buy-in
0 Bilaterals - political buy-in
0 Scoping - floods, cows and
needs identification
0 Inception – defining outcomes,
mandates, signing and dancing
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Meetings and mantras
0 Project Steering
Committees
0 Meetings in meetings:
0 Capacity building
0 Country stakeholder
0 Cultural visits
0 Bilateral
0 Working hard, playing
and building teams
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Baselines and building
0 Baseline and training needs
analysis
0 Case workshop
0 Curriculum framework
0 Lead trainer development
programme
0 Monitoring and evaluation
programme
0 Mentorship and gender
0 Regional office
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Ownership and mutual
responsibility
0 Equal participants in the planning and development
0 In-country political and government support
0 Regional network and will sustained through the
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regional office
Ownership and mutual accountability built in
Impact of changing structures and leadership
Common history keeps us
Procurement and control
together, coming from the
Extent of equality and control in relation to conflict countries,
commonalities keep us
implementing agency
together. We all feel that we
all have something to learn
and to serve people as good
public servants.
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Role of champions
0 Role of institutional and project champions is critical
to sustainability
0 PALAMA project leader played critical role
0 Operational leadership more important to
sustainability than political leadership
0 Capacity development through the principle of
‘learning by doing’
People said ‘next time we
0 Continuity and institutional memory
won’t worry about
translation, you have to
0 Trust and reciprocity
speak in English’. This
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“capacity building” helped
us a lot.
Trilateral cooperation
0 Project is evidence of how effective SS
collaboration can be supported by committed
and flexible NS cooperation
0 CIDA/PALAMA relationship enables
The donor was very
innovation and learning
flexible and allowed for
the alignment of the
0 SS cooperation based on mutual support Project to be implemented
under the South African
0 Project origin in the SS partnership
legal framework.
0 Strong fit into country priorities – post project
There is still a view that
PALAMA holds the purse
resourcing
as implementing agency
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and that the operational
budgets should be divided
equally between MDIs.
Lessons
0 Understand the country and institutional
context
0 Build partnerships with stakeholders
0 Use available resources strategically
0 Keep it simple
0 Take time to consult
0 Lead, plan, review and act
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Policy implications
0 South-South cooperation does build capacity but only
if based on equal participation and empowered
control – leadership critical
0 Capacity development leads to development only
when it is institutionalised – that is, changes power
relations and creates new norms and practices – to
produce new behaviours
0 Development effectiveness is about making things
work to the benefits
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