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Background 0 Accelerate development through innovative policy combining economic development with humanitarian rights 0 Principled inclusive partnerships 0 Capacitate institutions to strengthen performance 0 RCB project innovation is to use SS peer learning to improve capacity of public services to deliver 0 Common experience – region, post conflict, struggle, colonial, limited resources, poor delivery 0 Enabling local PSTIs to build capacity and identify indigenous solutions 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Modelling empowered SS capacity development EQUALITY WILL e pet enc com t, c en ow Kn In decision-making, planning, management, administration and evaluation os eth led ge, ski lls, ED CHANG ND CES A PRACTI IONS STITUT IN ED IMPROV CE MAN PERFOR onment al envir on instituti portive A sup SPACE e, ur ult Access itm Participation mm SKILLS Over delivery and the distribution of resources Co Control EMPOWERMENT To services, opportunities and projects Strengthen development effectiveness by exploring and learning from processes that increase levels of access, participation and control over decision-making 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan and the distribution of resources for development.

RBC Project Partners RIAM ENA CBU 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

The RCB Project 0 Five year capacity building project funded by CIDA (CAD 10. 5 million or ZAR 70 million) 0 Improve public service capability through institutional capacity development and training 0 Outcomes: 0 Strengthened institutional capacity of PALAMA, and increased capacity within PALAMA to engage in regional capacity building programmes. 0 Improved curriculum development and training capacity within partner MDIs. 0 Improved management and leadership capabilities across government departments in Rwanda, Burundi and Southern Sudan. 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

The RCB Project 0 Approach - sustainable development, comprehensive learning cycle, “learning by doing” , participatory, indigenization 0 Relevance to context by taking country strategies, policies and legislative frameworks in account, as well as the utilization and development of local expertise 0 Implementation delayed over the past year due to restructuring 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Beginnings and buy-in 0 Bilaterals - political buy-in 0 Scoping - floods, cows and needs identification 0 Inception – defining outcomes, mandates, signing and dancing 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Meetings and mantras 0 Project Steering Committees 0 Meetings in meetings: 0 0 Capacity building Country stakeholder Cultural visits Bilateral 0 Working hard, playing and building teams 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Baselines and building 0 Baseline and training needs analysis 0 Case workshop 0 Curriculum framework 0 Lead trainer development programme 0 Monitoring and evaluation programme 0 Mentorship and gender 0 Regional office 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Ownership and mutual responsibility 0 Equal participants in the planning and development 0 In-country political and government support 0 Regional network and will sustained through the regional office 0 Ownership and mutual accountability built in 0 Impact of changing structures and leadership Common history keeps us 0 Procurement and control together, coming from the 0 Extent of equality and control in relation to conflict countries, commonalities keep us implementing agency together. We all feel that we all have something to learn and to serve people as good public servants. 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Role of champions 0 Role of institutional and project champions is critical to sustainability 0 PALAMA project leader played critical role 0 Operational leadership more important to sustainability than political leadership 0 Capacity development through the principle of ‘learning by doing’ People said ‘next time we 0 Continuity and institutional memory won’t worry about translation, you have to 0 Trust and reciprocity speak in English’. This 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan “capacity building” helped us a lot.

Trilateral cooperation 0 Project is evidence of how effective SS collaboration can be supported by committed and flexible NS cooperation 0 CIDA/PALAMA relationship enables The donor was very innovation and learning flexible and allowed for the alignment of the 0 SS cooperation based on mutual support Project to be implemented under the South African 0 Project origin in the SS partnership legal framework. 0 Strong fit into country priorities – post project is still a view that There PALAMA holds the purse resourcing as implementing agency 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan and that the operational budgets should be divided equally between MDIs.

Lessons 0 Understand the country and institutional context 0 Build partnerships with stakeholders 0 Use available resources strategically 0 Keep it simple 0 Take time to consult 0 Lead, plan, review and act 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan

Policy implications 0 South-South cooperation does build capacity but only if based on equal participation and empowered control – leadership critical 0 Capacity development leads to development only when it is institutionalised – that is, changes power relations and creates new norms and practices – to produce new behaviours 0 Development effectiveness is about making things work to the benefits 2018/03/19 Prof Anne Mc Lennan