Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) is an informal network of analysts from bilateral and multilateral, governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations engaged in development cooperation (primarily DAC members). This has included the organization of International Symposia on Capacity Development in Manila and Tokyo in 2003 and 2004. LenCD was established in June 2004 in Berlin at a meeting of the cosponsors of two International Symposia on Capacity Development (in Manila 2003 and Tokyo 2004). Their common desire was to provide greater form and visibility to capacity development, both as part of the work of the DAC Network on Governance (GOVNET) and beyond.

LenCD promotes learning about capacity development. Its objectives are to:

• Facilitate the sharing of lessons about good and bad practice for supporting capacity development in developing countries;
• Promote the exchange of experience and cooperation in mainstreaming capacity development concerns into agency operations;
• Foster country level dialogue and collaboration around the pursuit of lasting capacity outcomes;
• Promote data collection, monitoring and other empirical work on capacity development;
• Be the main partner to advance the GOVNET’s capacity development agenda;
• Support the DAC in mainstreaming a capacity development perspective throughout its work.

For more information contact the LenCD Focal Point James Macbeth.