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ACBF OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES

In August 2002, the Foundation launched it’s the ACBF Occasional Paper Series (AOPS) as an essential knowledge product and mechanism for the sharing of knowledge on issues relating to capacity development on the Continent. To this end, AOPS offers a means by which the ACBF highlights lessons of experience, best practices, new thinking in strategies, policies and programs in the field of capacity development. 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 development within the African context;
  • To provide analytical rigor and experiential content to issues in capacity development and the management of development in Africa;
  • To highlight new thinking and document pitfalls in capacity development, the design, implementation and management of development policies and programs in Africa; and
  • 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 development management issues with a link to the areas:

  • Capacity development thinking pertinent to, and timely for, the Foundation’s six areas of core competence areas and other emerging issues facing the African continent:
    • 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
  • Emerging development issues, including but not limited to – poverty reduction, HIV/AIDS crisis, climate change, globalization, transformative leadership, post-conflict reconstruction, fragile states, knowledge management & good governance.

Contributions: ACBF welcomes AOPS 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 Foundation strongly encourages contributions from African and Africanist scholars both across the continent and in the Diaspora.

Potential contributors should submit manuscripts to the K. Hanson (k.hanson@acbf-pact.org), Head, Knowledge and Learning.

 

 

 

 

   
   
   
   

OCCASIONAL PAPER 8

Public Financial Management Reforms in Developing Countries – Lessons of Experience from Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda

Summary

ACBF Knowledge Management Department is pleased to announce the release of ACBF Occasional Paper No. 8 titled Public Financial Management Reforms in Developing Countries: Lessons of Experience from Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. The paper reviews the growing interest in the quality of public financial management in developing countries, the emergence of a new set of objectives for public financial management, following the rise of the “new public management” thinking and the series of financial management reforms that have been undertaken in developing countries and their capacity implications.
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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. :: more

   

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 exercise. :: more

   

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. :: more

   

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 (NEPAD). :: more

   

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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