The African Development Institute, the training and learning arm of the African Development Bank Group, recently conducted workshops in four member countries - Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, and South Sudan - to finalize tools designed to enhance development effectiveness.
These tools will support the alignment of capacity-building investments with national development plans. Funded by the Resilience Support Fund, these workshops are part of a multi-country thematic support project. The sessions were held in collaboration with the Ministers of Economy, Finance, or Planning of each country on the following dates: 13 - 15 August in Somalia, 19 - 23 August in Guinea-Bissau, 2 - 6 September in the Central African Republic, and 24 - 31 October in South Sudan.
The events gathered national stakeholders and development partners to review and validate key deliverables, ensuring readiness for adoption and widespread implementation. This initiative marks a critical step toward modernizing public services and strengthening development outcomes in these nations.
The Bank's support will specifically help these countries:
- Enhance resource mobilization for sustainable institutional, organizational, and human capacity development.
- Improve coordination of efforts within the Bank and with partners to boost efficiency and impact.
Align development interventions with national development results frameworks for better effectiveness.
The National Capacity-Building Strategy paper covers several key areas, including:
- Program development, by devising tools and protocols tailored to the specific institutional needs of each country.
- Policy management and capacity building in the High 5s sectors, by implementing support programmes tailored to the needs of each country and systematically incorporating capacity building into sectoral projects.
- Knowledge brokering and policy dialogue in African countries to offer faster, more transparent and more accessible services to beneficiaries.
At the end of the validation work in the four aforementioned countries, the African Development Institute accelerated the documents' completion so as to enable the countries to engage in bilateral dialogue with their various partners to harness the necessary resources to implement the national strategies with which they were just equipped.
