This is the website of the World Bank's Social Development program. That program emphasizes the social aspects of climate change,' 'social dimensions of infrastructure,' 'local governance, participation, civil engagement,' and 'conflict operations in the sustainable development network.'

The World Bank Institute’s Executive Development Program on “Inclusive and Sustainable Business: Creating Markets with the Poor” is designed to help company managers, working in emerging markets, and public sector leaders develop and implement sustainable corporate strategies that also provide opportunities for the world’s four billion poor people to raise themselves out of poverty. Through a unique combination of the global development agenda, cutting edge knowledge, World Bank Group ex more...

The World Bank Group recently published a new site that addresses the effectiveness of training citizens to build capacity in their countries. The new site has several PDF documents, as well as other articles and recommended links.

In the Asian Development Bank, and most likely in other development agencies, the construction of knowledge is rarely examined and there has been a dire absence of work to find out what helps or hinders the transfer of knowledge through evaluation studies. This booklet brings to light the contribution that knowledge audits can make to organizational learning and organizational health. With deserved emphasis on the organizational context for learning, it shows with a real-life example how knowled more...

Norway's Agency for Development Cooperation, Norad, has commissioned a study to identify Best Practice and Innovative examples of Capacity Development (CD) in Low-Income African countries. The cases should be from the public sector, in the fields of Health, Education, Water, Sanitation, and/or Energy.

The most important information source is an internet-based survey of stakeholders like yourselves who have experience in this field. What the survey asks, is for you to provide information on t more...

InfoDev maintains a Web section dedicated to ICT4D focusing on actions and key documents released by International Development Agencies. A wide range of interesting reports as well as mostly all bilateral organizations and multilateral organizations are listed here including full links to the definition their ICT4D strategy.

Presentation by ECDPM on technical assistance to capacity development, June 2006, in Australia.

The mandate of the European Union's Directorate General for Development "is to enhance the development policies in all developing countries world-wide." DG Development provides policy guidance on development policy and oversees the programming of EU aid in the ACP countries. The website of the DG Development includes country and regional strategy papers, as well as many other resources.

The European Union, the world’s largest donor in Africa, has launched this comprehensive website on the EU Strategy for Africa. It provides links to: the EU-Africa Business Forum and resources on Regional integration and Trade, as well as on governance and The EU-Africa Partnership on Infrastructure.

This is the online version of the 87 page 2006 Atlas mapping donor assistance from the European Union. It provides maps of both the sources and recipients of donor aid, as well as illustrations of aid by development indicators and trade and migration flows.