Capacity Building

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Capacity Building Trade DevelopmentRichard
Carey, OECD Special DAC Meeting on Aid for Trade,
October 27, 2005

• 1. What is capacity building?
• 2. Trade Capacity Building Social Learning
• 3. Where does the IF fit in?
• 4. Mainstreaming trade in the evolving aid
  architecture

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1. What is capacity building?

• Capacity is the ability of people to manage their
  affairs, institutions and society as a whole
  successfully. Involves capabilities to
• Analyze and plan
• Execute
• Review outcomes adjust plans/execution
• Systemic capacity sustainable, self-renewing
  competencies in both public private realms
• Ownership internal impulse, objectives actors
• Aid, technical co-operation and capacity
  building, holistic approaches and the
  fragmentation problem
• See the Challenge of Capacity Development
  Working Towards Good Practice (DCD/DAC/GOVNET(2005
  )5.

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2. Trade Capacity Building Social Learning

• Trade Development as a national learning process
• The Asian Tigers
• The importance of leadership and context
• Catch-up opportunities
• Performance and accountability as key values of
  political and private/public sector leadership

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3. Where does the IF fit in?

• IF as a model of holistic capacity building
• The rebirth of the IF in parallel with DAC
  Guidelines for Strengthening the Capacity to
  Trade (2001)
• The enhanced IF proposal (2005) with strong
  emphasis on local processes and implementation
  capacities

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Objective build a durable trade policy process
Source DAC Guidelines on Strengthening Trade
Capacity for Development
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4. Mainstreaming trade in the evolving aid
architecture

• Scaling up of aid and aid effectiveness agenda
  (Paris Declaration, March 2005) create new
  context
• Local ownership, alignment, harmonisation,
  results, resources
• Reinventing local consultative processes around
  this agenda
• Integrating trade and private sector development
  into PRSPs
• Convergence of trade capacity building and
  special differential treatment (SDT) agendas?