ACBF
OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES
The ACBF Occasional Paper Series
(AOPS) was launched in August 2002
as one of the instruments for the
exchange of information and knowledge
on issues relating to capacity building
and development management in Africa.
It offers a means by which the African
Capacity Building Foundation seeks
to highlight lessons of experience,
best practices, pitfalls and new
thinking in strategies, policies
and programs in the field of capacity
building based on its operations
and those of other institutions with
capacity building mandates. AOPS
also addresses substantive development
issues that fall within the remit
of the Foundation’s six core
competence areas as well as the role
and contribution of knowledge management
in the development process.
Objectives: AOPS
is published with a view to achieving
a couple of objectives. Fundamental
among these are the following:
- To bridge the gap in knowledge
in the field of capacity building
and development management within
the African context.
- To provide analytical rigor
and experiential content to issues
in capacity building and the management
of development in Africa.
- To highlight best practices
and document pitfalls in capacity
building, the design, implementation
and management of development policies
and programs in Africa.
- To systematically review, critique
and add value to strategies, policies
and programs for national and regional
economic development, bringing
to the fore pressing development
issues and exploring means for
resolving them.
Focus: AOPS focuses
on capacity building and development
management issues. These are in the
following areas:
- Capacity building issues in
the following six core competence
areas and their relevance to development
management in Africa:
- Economic Policy Analysis
and Development Management.
- Financial Management and
Accountability.
- Enhancement and Monitoring
of National Statistics.
- Public Administration
and Management.
- Strengthening of Policy
Analysis Capacity of National
Parliaments.
- Professionalization of
the Voices of the Private
Sector and Civil Society.
- Engendering of development
- Development challenges, which
comprise issues in poverty reduction,
HIV/AIDS crisis, economic and political
governance,
Orientation: Papers
published by the Series are expected
to be analytical and policy-oriented
with concrete guide to strategies,
policies, programs and instruments
for strengthening the capacity building
process and enhancing growth and
development. In line with the objectives
of the Series, such papers are expected
to share experiences, information,
knowledge, disseminate best practices
and highlight pitfalls in capacity
building processes and/or the management
of development policies and programs.
Contributions: AOPS
welcomes contributions from policy
analysts, development practitioners,
policymakers, capacity building specialists,
academics and researchers all over
the world, but with a focus on the
African context.
The first of ACBF
Occasional Paper Series, published
in October 2002, examines Africa’s
development challenges and the implications
for capacity building on the continent,
and thus of the effective implementation
of the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development (NEPAD). The paper has
been disseminated widely to African
countries, partner institutions and
through fora, including the Fourth
Global Development Conference on
Globalization and Equity, January
2003, Cairo, Egypt and the International
Symposium on Capacity Development
and Aid Effectiveness, January 2003,
Manila, Philippines.
In July 2003, the
African Capacity Building Foundationpublished
the second in the series of its Occasional
Papers. Titled, “The New Partnership
for Africa’s Development: Building
Economic and Corporate Governance
Institutions for Sustainable Development” the
paper examines the centrality of
institutions and institution building
in the implementation of the Economic
and Corporate Governance programme
of the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development (NEPAD). It sees institutions
in the broader context of organizational
structures, systems, processes and
procedures that are vital for the
development and poverty reduction
process in Africa. The paper posits
that building appropriate and effective
institutions in Africa is fundamental
to good governance and thus the attainment
of the overall objective of the NEPAD
Initiative, which is Africa’s
development.
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 7
MULTILATERAL
TRADE EGOTIATIONS:
HOW SENSIBLY MUST AFRICAN COUNTRIES
AND TRADE NEGOTIATORS STAND?
- SOME LESSONS FROM WTO EXPERIENCE
It
is generally acknowledged that
Africa’s participation
in Multilateral Trade
Negotiations (MTNs) improved
both quantitatively and qualitatively
since the
launch of the Uruguay Round
(UR). This is not to say that
African negotiators
have reached the same levels
of preparedness and sophistication
as their
counterparts in the developed
countries.
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 6
CAPACITY
BUILDING FOR THE PROMOTION
OF TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN
AFRICA CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES
The lack of
capacity has hindered Africa
from exploiting the investment
and trade opportunities offered
by the global economy. Most
of the constraints and challenges
are linked to ineffective policies,
poor management systems and
frameworks, weak governance,
conflicts, HIV/AIDS and the
heavy external debt, among
others.
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 5
CHALLENGES FACING
AFRICA’S REGIONAL ECONOMIC
COMMUNITIES IN CAPACITY BUILDING
The concern for regional cooperation
and integration in Africa predates
independence. The period 1960-1980,
however, witnessed the emergence
of the major regional integration
schemes that pushed forward
the Continent’s economic
integration agenda. Post-independence
regional economic integration
and cooperation efforts resulted
in a variety of initiatives
with overlapping membership
and mandates, making Africa
the region with the highest
density of economic integration
and cooperation arrangements.
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 4
MEASURING
PERFORMANCE OF INTERVENTIONS
IN CAPACITY BUILDING: SOME
FUNDAMENTALS
The African
Capacity Building Foundation
(ACBF) is pleased to publish
the fourth in the series of
its Occasional Papers. Occasional
Paper No. 4 is an attempt to
define a set of fundamentals
around which generic measures
can be developed to assess
performance of interventions
in capacity building. The development
of performance measures in
capacity building is a complex
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 3
ACBF
OCCASIONAL PAPER 3
CAPACITY BUILIDNG IN POST-CONFLICT COUNTRIES IN AFRICA : A SUMMARY OF LESSONS
OF EXPERIENCE FROM MOZAMBIQUE, RWANDA, SIERRA LEONE & UGANDA
In
December 2004, the Foundation
published the third in the
series of its Occasional Papers.
Occasional Paper No. 3 presents
a Summary of a Report of a
Study on Reconstruction and
Capacity Building efforts in
four Post-Conflict African
Countries, namely, Mozambique,
Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda.
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 2
THE
NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S
DEVELOPMENT: BUILDING ECONOMIC & CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In July 2003,
the Foundation published the
second in the series of its
Occasional Papers – “The
New Partnership for Africa’s
Development: Building Economic
and Corporate Governance Institutions
for Sustainable Development”.
Occasional Paper No. 2 examines
the centrality of institutions
and institution building in
the implementation of the Economic
and Corporate Governance program
of the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development
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OCCASIONAL
PAPER 1
AFRICA:
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES & THEIR
CAPACITY BUILDING DIMENSIONS
In October
2002, the African Capacity
Building Foundation (ACBF)
published the first in the
series of its Occasional paper – “AFRICA:
Major Development Challenges
and their Capacity Building
Dimensions”. Occasional
Paper No. 1 examines eleven
major development challenges,
which face the African continent
in its bid to achieve sustained
growth and development in the
21st Century. :: more |
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