The ethos of volunteerism supports capacity development in a number of areas.
Volunteerism and Capacity Development

- There is considerable benefit to be gained from the multiplier effect of engaging and supporting volunteering at all levels in development in general, and capacity development in particular. The paper argues that further steps should be taken to ensure that the contributions of volunteers are more explicitly factored into capacity development programmes through local and national civil society organisations, governments at different levels and other volunteer involving organisations.

- Brian Pitt

"Per capita TC to sub-Saharan Africa ($4) amounts to only half of the per capita flows to Eastern Europe."
Reforming Technical Assistance: Review of Statistical Evidence (1969 – 1999) Executive Summary

- Data analysis with global estimates of TC flows and analysis of OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) data.

- Pierre Baris and Jean Zaslavky

"Latin America has moved far on the rocky road to ownership."
From Technical Assistance to Development Cooperation – UNDP's Experience in Latin America in the 90s

- This study explores how UNDP's cooperation activities in Latin America have moved further in the areas of efficiency, sustainability, ownership and accountability through the use of the "National Execution" modality. The paper suggests that international development agencies adopt a modified version of the National Execution model used in the Latin America region.

- Carlos del Castillo, is a citizen of Uruguay and a graduate of the School of Public Administration, University of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Has forty years experience in development cooperation with US AID and UNDP, both at Headquarters and in several countries as UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative. Also has extensive experience in training; the development and operation of innovative TC policies; and TC work with International Financial Institutions.

Inherent distortions were built into technical assistance from the beginning. What are the correctives?
Technical Assistance: Correcting the Precedents

- This study tries to step back and see the TA "problem" from the perspective of the organizational pressures and dynamics involved. It puts forward some views about how and why we ended up in this cycle of reappraisal and unproductive reform. And it looks ahead briefly to see the latest proposals for change.

- Peter Morgan is a graduate of the universities of Toronto and Harvard. He has worked for the Government of Kenya and the Canadian International Development Agency. Since 1991, he has been an independent consultant specializing in institutional and capacity development issues.

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