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A SURVEY
OF THE CAPACITY NEEDS OF
AFRICA’S REGIONAL
ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES
The publication “A Survey
of the Capacity Needs of Africa’s
Regional Economic Communities” will
be ready for dissemination
during the second quarter
of this year. It is the outcome
of a study undertaken by
the
Foundation at the behest
of NEPAD Heads of State and
Government
Implementation Committee.
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The flight
of highly skilled African professionals
to the industrialized countries
of the West is one of the major
development constraints of
most African countries. Both
the public and private sectors
of these countries are suffering
from the flight of human capital,
as their best and brightest
professionals migrate, a large
number of whom hardly return
to their countries of origin.
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Today,
citizens everywhere demand
greater probity of government
officials. The new transparency
in domestic and global markets
brings corruption more quickly
to the public eye. Corruption
flourishes where distortions
in the policy and regulatory
regime provide scope for it,
and where institutions of restraint
are weak. Corruption lies at
the intersection of the public
and private sectors. It is
a
two-way street. Corruption
violates the public trust and
corrodes
social capital.
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 During
2003 the Secretariat published jointly
with the Institute of Social Studies,
the Hague, the first in its Book
Series titled “Better Governance
and Public Policy – Capacity
Building and Democratic Renewal in
Africa”; the maiden issue of
the ACBF Capacity Building Review;
two Occasional Papers (one on “The
New Partnership for Africa’s
Development – Building Economic
and Corporate Governance Institutions
for Sustainable Development”;
and the other is an abstract of the
study commissioned by the Foundation
on “Experiences in the Building
of Capacity in Post-Conflict Countries”)
and three Lessons Notes in Capacity
Building. Also produced were a number
of information briefs on the Foundation’s
activities. The Secretariat published
and distributed the ACBF
Newsletter during the
first quarter of 2004. It also published
and disseminated a number of brochures
on the Foundation’s operations
Research Abstracts:
 The
African Capacity Building Foundation
(ACBF) is pleased to publish the
maiden edition of the ACBF
African Policy Research Abstracts Series (APRAS). A product of the Foundation’s
knowledge management program, APRAS provides concise summaries of planned (seminal
ideas), on-going and completed research works on Africa’s socio-economic
development and capacity building issues. Contributors to the Series are policy
researchers, analysts and practitioners among other development management
professionals who are engaged in the conduct of policy analysis and research
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ACBF Working
Paper Series (AWPS)
The African Capacity
Building Foundation (ACBF) is pleased
to launch the ACBF Working Paper
Series (AWPS). AWPS is one of the
instruments for disseminating findings
of ongoing research and policy analysis
works designed to stimulate discussion
and elicit comments on issues relating
to capacity building and development
management in Africa. A product of
the Knowledge Management and Program
Support Department of the African
Capacity Building Foundation, a Working
Paper very often ends up as an Occasional
Paper, a book or some other form
of publication produced by the Foundation
after a thorough review of its contents.
It offers a means by which the 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. AWPS
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.
AWPS is published
with a view to achieving a couple
of objectives. Fundamental among
these are the following:
- To bridge knowledge gaps 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.
- ACBF Working Paper No.1,
The Political Economy
of
Sustainable Development: The Governance Perspective
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- ACBF Working Paper No.2,
Measuring Performance
of Interventions in Capacity Building:
Some Fundamentals
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- ACBF Working Paper No.3,
Africa’s Search
for Regional Cooperation and Integration
in the 21st Century
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- ACBF Working Paper No.4,
Farm Subsidies, Unfair Trade Practices
and the Prospects of Poverty Reduction
in Africa: Options For The Continent
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- ACBF Working Paper No.5,
Challenges In The Building Of Public
Service Capacity In Africa
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- ACBF Working Paper No.6,
Trade Policy Development and Negotiations
in The DOHA Round: Documentation
of Major Issues and Proposals
on Africa’s Position
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- ACBF
Working Paper No.7, Public
Financial Management Reforms
in Developing Countries: Lessons
of Experience
from Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda
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- ACBF Working Paper No.9, Civil
Society in the Formulation
of Malawi’s Poverty Reduction
Strategy Paper: A Long Walk To
Participation
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- ACBF
Working Paper No.10,
Beating Occupational Fraud through
Awareness and Prevention
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- ACBF
Working Paper No.11
The Role of Agriculture
in Strengthening Regional Integration
in Africa
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