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.
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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.
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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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