Capacity Development Task Team

The Task Team works under the assumption that Capacity Development is the process of strengthening the abilities or capacities of individuals, organizations and societies to make effective and efficient use of resources, in order to achieve their own goals on a sustainable basis.  In the education sector, this means developing skills, organizations and institutions at all levels right down to the classroom.  Insufficient capacity has several causes, among them the lack of the right knowledge, skill mix and experience at all levels and structural weaknesses in organizational and institutional arrangements.

The overall aim of this Task Team is to ensure that the implementation of EFA plans is not hampered by insufficient or uncoordinated support for CD in FTI countries.  In the spirit of the Paris Declaration, the Task Team attempts to provide a framework for systematic, coordinated support to country-driven CD agendas.

The guiding principles of this Task Team include:

·       The CD Task Team (TT) should add value to what is already “business as usual” at country level.

·        The CD TT should shift the focus of the discussion around CD from supply-driven to demand-driven issues.

·        The CD TT values the importance of considering CD in a broader perspective, including in the context of general public sector/civil service reform, good governance and corruption, and change management.

·         The CD TT considers knowledge management to be a key aspect of adding value to additional work on CD.

Planned activities/inputs include:

(i)                 An initial snapshot survey of the role of “capacity” (in terms of assessment and support to CD) in the FTI context

(ii)                Capacity appraisal guidelines for use at country-level (at all levels)

(iii)               Information sharing via the FTI internet site

(iv)               Stocktaking study on South-South cooperation

(v)                 Analysis of existing CD strategies

(vi)               Linking with the FTI Education Program Development Fund, the Catalytic Fund, and the Fragile States Task Team to ensure more rigorous attention to support for CD in the FTI context

Relevant documents:

·        Capacity Development Concept Note

·        The Role of Capacity Development (Moscow Presentation, March 2006)

·        Summary on Capacity Development Activities

·        Capacity Development Update (March 2006)

·        Capacity Development Questionnaire 

·        Capacity Development Task Team List of Participants

·        Capacity Development Presentation (Rome Presentation, June 2006)

·        CD TT Questionnaire Results (November 2006) (en français)

·        CD TT Update for Cairo Partnership Meeting (November 2006)

·        CD TT Time Plan for Cairo Partnership Meeting (November 2006)

·      CD Cairo Parallel Session - Agenda (November 2006) (en français)

 

The Team will take stock of lessons learned in terms of process and partnership demand and determine how to continue to work together at the end of 2006.

For more information about the Task Team please contact Task Team Leader, Temby Caprio (temby.caprio@bmz.bund.de) or Anna Triponel from the FTI Secretariat (atriponel@worldbank.org).