Practice Reports
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The Zebediela Citrus Estate in Limpopo province, South Africa, was returned to the Bjatladi community in 2003. The community now co-owns and manages the enterprise and its productive assets.
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Since 1990 the Chilean government has supported the participation of small-scale farmers in one of the most competitive economies in the developing world.
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Aug 2008Uganda’s National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) has adopted a new approach to encourage coffee farmers to expand the scope of their activities in the coffee value chain.
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Apr 2008CABUNGO, a Malawian NGO providing organisational development services to local NGOs, recently evaluated its own performance using the Most Significant Change approach. Rebecca Wrigley describes how, with the support of stakeholders, CABUNGO lear...
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The Community Development Resource Association is a South African NGO that serves social development and civil society initiatives around the world. Sue Soal describes CDRA’s approach to organisational learning.
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Apr 2008In many aid agencies the rhetoric of learning is rarely matched in practice. Charles Owusu describes the efforts of ActionAid to make systems and structures part of the solution to becoming a learning organisation, rather than part of the proble...
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Apr 2008Moussiliou Adiloy, an independent consultant based in Benin, has many years’ experience in capacity development with various organisations. Here he identifies the barriers to team learning, and ways to overcome them.
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Strengthening the accountability of government officials to their constituents provides an important impetus to boosting their capacity to govern effectively. However, as examples from Iraq and Indonesia show, the legitimacy of the government is...
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During Haiti’s 200 years of independence it has remained an extremely weak state, characterised by the absence of functional institutions. Recent political developments raise the issue of the impact of parallel service delivery on the emerging s...
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Dec 2007After more than 17 years of internal conflict, Mozambique was littered with thousands of landmines. This article describes how locally recruited deminers contributed to local ownership and the state’s legitimacy.