Capacity for development : new solutions to old problems

edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Carlos Lopes, Khalid Malik

'The United Nations system was a pioneer in the field of technical cooperation and capacity development is its central mandate. UNDP has long played an important leadership role in both as a source of technical cooperation funds and advisory services and as the home of innovative intellectual research and analysis on how to make them more efficient and effective. This book [presents] a vision that builds on new possibilities for knowledge-sharing for which the revolution in information and communications technologies offers ample opportunities... a vision that is firmly founded on genuine owne

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Lopes, Carlos
Other Persons:	Malik, Khalid (contributor) ; Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko (contributor)
Publisher:	Hoboken : Earthscan
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (289 p.)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; Foreword; Editors' acknowledgements; Overview; Chapter 1: Capacity and development; Chapter 2: Ownership; Chapter 3: Knowledge; About the authors; CAPACITY FOR DEVELOPMENT: NEW SOLUTIONS TO OLD PROBLEMS; Copyright; CONTENTS; foreword; editors' acknowledgements; overview Institutional innovations for capacity development; PART 1: capacity and development; 1.1 Towards a normative framework: Technical cooperation, capacities and development; 1.2 Autonomy-respecting assistance: Towards new strategies for capacity-building and development assistance; 1.3 Technical cooperation and institutional capacity-building for development: Back to the basics; 1.4 Civic engagement and development: Introducing the issues 1.5 Social capital and industrial transformationPART 2: ownership; 2.1 Should we mind the gap?; 2.2 Incentives, governance and capacity development in Africa; 2.3 Power, networks and ideology in the field of development; PART 3: knowledge; 3.1 The network age: Creating new models of technical cooperation ; 3.2 Integrating local and global knowledge, technology and production systems: Challenges for technical cooperation; 3.3 Technical cooperation and knowledge networks; 3.4 Developments in private sector knowledge-based entrepreneurship in the South 3.5 Knowledge of technology and the technology of knowledge: New strategies for developmentAbout the authors 1.5 Social capital and industrial transformationPART 2: ownership; 2.1 Should we mind the gap?; 2.2 Incentives, governance and capacity development in Africa; 2.3 Power, networks and ideology in the field of development; PART 3: knowledge; 3.1 The network age: Creating new models of technical cooperation; 3.2 Integrating local and global knowledge, technology and production systems: Challenges for technical cooperation; 3.3 Technical cooperation and knowledge networks; 3.4 Developments in private sector knowledge-based entrepreneurship in the South
ISBN:	978-1-85383-919-1 ; 978-1-84977-065-1 ; 978-1-84977-065-1 ; 978-1-85383-924-5
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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