Workshop: Learning by Doing: From Policy to Action on Capacity Development December 15-17, 2008, Room: U3-435, The World Bank, Washington DC
Despite much progress in our understanding of capacity development and how best to support it, much needs to be done to translate policy into action. The Accra Agenda for Action (AAA)?where the international community made important new commitments about engagement on capacity development?is just the latest call for action. One important way of moving in this direction is multi-stakeholder, action-oriented learning processes that can draw lessons from concrete experience and strengthen alliances.
Shaping an approach to this critical learning challenge will be the subject of the Washington workshop, organized under the auspices of the Learning Network on Capacity Development (LenCD) and hosted by the World Bank Institute, December 15-17, 2008.
The workshop will bring together about 30 practitioners and agencies with a stake in capacity learning programs. Our goal is to build on existing efforts and partnerships to strengthen the capacity development aspects of existing learning programs and to consider creating a modest pilot learning plan, which could be scaled up in the future, based on our collective capacity development work over the past few years. Please see the attached draft agenda for more detail.
We are asking participants to review the two-page overview of the CD learning initiative (attached). It is a work in progress. The LenCD website www.LenCD.org will host a special section where you can contribute comments, materials, ideas and links to your own work that may be useful for others. The workshop format does not allow for presentations but encourages engaged dialogue in plenary, panels and working groups. To effectively share some of your insights, we ask that you summarize key lessons and advice from your experience in a one-page format for other participants.
On December 16, LenCD will hold a strategic planning meeting that will make critical decisions for the coming three years. LenCD has worked informally over more than four years and envisages establishing a small coordination unit to support collective work. The CD Learning program is one of several partnership initiatives foreseen.
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Workshop Agenda
Workshop
Objectives By the
end of the workshop, we hope to achieve the following:
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Concrete ideas from various players on their plans and
perspectives for CD learning
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Ideas on how to tailor CD learning to different contexts
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An approach to partnerships, especially with Southern
organizations and networks
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A clear vision of next steps
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Day 1 – Monday December
15, 2008
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09h:00
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Welcome and review of workshop agenda and objectives
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The
idea of a CD learning program
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Objectives
of the workshop
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Introduction
to participants
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09h00
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Panel
1: CD learning and civil society engagement
Objective: Explore perspectives, roles and partnership opportunities
for civil society and private sector in learning initiatives
Moderated panel followed by open discussion.
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10h30
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Coffee
break
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11h00
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Working groups
Groups will consider concrete
cases and contexts. Resource person in each group is charged with keeping
debate focused on concrete outcomes and recommendations.
PLEASE NOTE: Topics are
indicative and may be revised based on demand.
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Group
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Group 2
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Group 3
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Post-conflict
and fragile contexts
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Sector
settings
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Civil
Society engagement
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Systemic CD in
DRC
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Pilot experience Ethiopia
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Interface
capacities (Ghana)
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Results: Each group identifies:
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Learning materials, content and
resources useful in the given contexts
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Approaches and partnerships
that may be appropriate
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Conclusions for further shaping
a learning program
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12h00
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Working
groups report back to plenary
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12h30
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Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: “Capacity Development after the Accra High Level Forum on Aid
Effectiveness: Where Do We Go from Here?” (Main Building, MC5-100)
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14h00
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Panel
2: CD Learning and the Aid Effectiveness Agenda after Accra
Objective: Define concrete recommendations for a learning approach to
support aid effectiveness agenda and achieving Accra commitments on CD
Moderated discussion
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15h30
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Coffee break
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16h00
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What
kind of partnerships?
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Possible
partners
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Country-level
and donor staff combinations?
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Partnership
with Train4Dev
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Partnerships
with local institutions, consultants and universities
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The role of South-South learning and how to
make this a reality
A vision to move forward and next steps
Intervention by Sanjay Pradhan,
Vice-President, World Bank Institute
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17h30
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Closing
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Day 2 – Tuesday December 16, 2008
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09h:00
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Welcome and opening
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LenCD
strategy and work plan 2009-2011: An overview
Moderated discussion
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10h30
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Coffee
break
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11h00
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Working groups
Groups will be formed around elements
of the strategy, work plan and partner initiatives.
· Knowledge brokering and learning exchange
(incl. CD learning initiative)
· Developing regional and subregional
networking and learning platforms
· LenCD governance, modes of work,
recruitment of coordinator, funding etc.
· Other topics on demand
Results: Each group identifies:
- Specific recommendations for the period
2009-11
- Opportunities, initiatives and partnerships
- Recommendations for moving forward
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12h30
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Lunch
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14h00
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Plenary session: Reports from the working
groups
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Coffee on the side
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15h00
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Decisions:
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Establish
a new governance structure
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Appoint
Executive Management Team for the 1st year
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Agree
on a time line and key benchmarks for 2009
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Pledges
for funding LenCD
Next
steps
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17h30
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Conclusions
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Day 3 – Wednesday December 17, 2008
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Special
event at USAID
Participants will participate in morning
session with USAID staff and other invitees (Agenda provided separately)
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