African Capacity Building Foundation: Recent submissions
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Africa Capacity Indicators 2012: Capacity Development for Agricultural Transformation and Food Security
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012)A core message in the report is that improving the productivity and the economic returns of agriculture has immediate effects on poverty and hunger in at least three important ways: a) it increases the productivity and ... -
Africa Capacity Indicators 2013: Capacity Development For Natural Resource Management
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2013)The 2013 Report focuses on an issue of great importance to Africa: natural resource management. The Report is holistic, yet focused on what African countries need to do individually and collectively to achieve effective ... -
The African Capacity Building Foundation : rising to the challenge of capacity through a unique and innovative framework
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2011)The birth of the African Capacity Building Foundation on February 9, 1991, was the culmination of intense efforts and groundbreaking commitment to capacity building in Africa by Africa Governors of theWorld Bank, the ... -
Transparency and accountability in the management of public funds : how sensibly must African countries stand?
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Governance and transformative leadership in Africa : progress, prospects and challenges
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The World Bank and sub-Saharan Africa : the next policy paradigm
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The future of bilateral aid in Africa : size, flow, conditionalities and relative importance in countries' budget
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Making regional integration work in Africa : a reflection on strategies and institutional requirements
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Africa and development cooperation : successes, pitfalls & areas for further reforms
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2008)Development assistance has been of benefit to developing countries over the years. It has helped tobuild physical infrastructural, human and institutional capacities and deliver some level of growth in recipient countries. ... -
Changement climatique, dégradation environnementale et quête d'utilisation des ressources naturelles : miracle ou mirage?
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2013)Le changement climatique exige une compréhension de son fonctionnement pour bâtir des politiques de gestion efficaces, car la variabilité climatique contemporaine a engendré des bouleversements des écosystèmes naturels ... -
L'état du renforcement des capacités en Afrique
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2011)How do we take stock of the current state of capacity building in Africa? This is the question that this article attempts to respond to. By drawing inspiration from the existing scientific work, drawing from the statistics ... -
The challenges of knowledge harvesting and the promotion of sustainable development for the achievement of the MDGs in Africa
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Is bilateral aid responding to good governance in Africa?
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012)This paper investigates whether aid flows from traditional donor countries to African countries have responded to improved governance in African countries, whether aid has been used by donors to improve the quality of ... -
Food security and sovereignty in Africa : issues, policy challenges and opportunities
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012)The last few decades have seen food insecurity as an emerging crisis that has bedeviledmanyAfrican countries. While many post-colonial African governments have widely recognized the role of agriculture in national ... -
The retention of highly skilled returnees in Mozambique : an institutional approach
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2013)This research combines Institutional Rational Choice (IRC), the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, Return Migration theories and International Development theories to understand how Mozambican highly ... -
Financement du développement résilient au climat en Afrique : évaluation prospective, cadre stratégique et plan d'action
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2011)While the level of uncertainty enriched by the climate wars hypothesis, controversial moves on the finance field. Breaking with development aid and the conventional financial system, the climate financing enters a period ... -
Social inclusion and service delivery in a fragile and post-conflict environment in Africa
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2011)The post-colonial state in Africa has attracted great interest from scholars and development partners because of the recognition that no development can take place without a proper functioning state. The state is expected ... -
Development drivers in Africa : role of innovation
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2011)Africa has recovered from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and posted high growth levels as seen before the crisis. The region has also been able to generate a sizable middle class of over 300 million people, who are ... -
Africa's quest for food security : what is the role of urban agriculture?
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2012)The history of urban agriculture in Africa dates to the colonial era when farming flourished in urban areas, largely to meet consumption needs of bureaucrats, settlers, and other elites. Today, urban agriculture is ... -
Currency reforms in Zimbabwe : an analysis of possible currency regimes
(African Capacity Building Foundation, 2010)The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) adopted a multiple currencies regime (MCR) in February 2009 and demonetized the Zimbabwean dollar in July 2009 after almost a decade of economic crisis. The MCR approach resulted in stabilizing ...