Reforming Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development

Alternatives and Options

Please share your views and experiences! (thomas.theisohn@undp.org)

Your knowledge and experience about these issues will be posted on the Alternatives and Options bulletin board where they will be available for the electronic discussions and fed into the respective research.

Four focus studies will examine the experience and practice of Technical Cooperation from a "market" perspective, regarding sustainability in developing local capacity, the appropriateness of modalities and in terms of accountability. All of these studies will try to push further into the uncharted land that has become the development credo: "Sustainable development… must be locally owned."

• Opportunity Costs and Effective Markets for TC
• Making capacity "stick"
• What? Where? When? – TC modalities under scrutiny
• Easy to evoke, hard to account for…

What’s New on Alternatives:

The Terms of reference for these four focus studies are available for comment. Please click on the study links above or go to the focus study index page
We are searching for individuals to carry them out. Your suggestions