http://www.search4dev.nlOnline library for Dutch development cooperationenwww.kit.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nlWed, 22 May 2013 23:10:52 CEST/d/dprn/graphics/bbhead.gifhttp://www.search4dev.nlhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/377641http://www.search4dev.nl/record/377641This brief discusses Strategic Organisational Development (SOD). SOD is the overall term for a range of tools and methods that can help organisations to develop a medium-term approach (often three years) for focusing and improving performance.M. de Graafhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/368551http://www.search4dev.nl/record/368551The risks of externally driven projects are increasingly recognized, and some approaches attempt to address these. The need is to find ways to directly assist public sector agencies in these states, responding to their needs and perceptions, without dominating them and while adding to their confidence, strengths and sense of direction. An approach was developed to build capacity right from the start and to put project design responsibilities with the agencies. All State agencies were directly invited to identify and prioritize their problems – and to propose solutions. This took the shape of the Responsive Window: a step-by-step process to identify, select, elaborate, contract and execute modest projects, entirely managed by State agencies. This approach and lessons learned are discussed in this innovation brief.M. de Graafhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/347390http://www.search4dev.nl/record/347390Nepal’s Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (RWASH) sector is very fragmented. A multitude of governmental agencies, donors, and local and international NGOs is active in the sector. A coordinated sector wide approach is lacking; stakeholders are not aligned. The challenge of the present project was to design an information system that would enable collecting information from the local levels and consolidation of this information into a national databank, whilst allowing all stakeholders access to the information via the internet. This report summarizes the results of this project.R. Nieuwenhuishttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/323590http://www.search4dev.nl/record/323590Planning and implementation of water management schemes has traditionally been ‘top-down’ and centrally planned. Maintenance hardly received any priority. How can local coastal communities be challenged and organised efficiently so that they are in a position to work together with the responsible government authorities to find long term solutions to the problem of Operation and Maintenance? It is widely agreed that the solution can be found through an Integrated Water Resource Management process, which involves: 1. creating an enabling environment of appropriate policies, strategies and legislation for sustainable water resources development and management; 2. putting in place the institutional framework through which the policies, strategies and legislation can be implemented; 3. establishing management instruments required by the concerned institutions to effectively do their job. A six-step process of “Integrated Planning for Sustainable Water Resources Management” has been developed within the Bangladesh Water Development Board. The six-step approach has so far been successfully tested in ten polders with a population of about 300,000. It has demonstrated that it is possible to actively involve community members in the planning and implementation of infrastructure rehabilitation works and that they are able to take over and contribute to its operation and maintenance.A. Jenkinshttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/323588http://www.search4dev.nl/record/323588In order to reach the goal of Universal Primary Education, in many regions of the world there is a huge and urgent need and demand for both improved school building and renovation together with better maintenance. An innovative approach is needed to make school rehabilitation, construction and maintenance more cost-effective with communities being granted facilitation to drive the approach. BMB Mott MacDonald has successfully developed and tested such a new innovative approach drawing on the experience of the Andhra Pradesh Primary Education Project (APPEP) in India and has implemented the same in the IMBEWU Project in the Eastern Cape, South Africa and in the Faisalabad Devolution Project (FDP) in Pakistan.J. ShottonL. Gampphttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/307127http://www.search4dev.nl/record/307127This report discusses post-conflict assistance in South Sudan, with a focus on the Basic Services Fund (BSF) which aims to work towards peace, stability, and recovery in the poor and conflict-affected areas of South Sudan.B. van Ommenhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/307126http://www.search4dev.nl/record/307126Since the launch of the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) in 2005, the emerging carbon market price has been very sensitive to recent global economic changes creating uncertainties. Market players are facing tremendous challenges to manage those uncertainties. This brief addresses the problems created and the challenges for market players to find ways of stabilising prices. Mott MacDonald can assist players to reduce price risks and maximise opportunities for profit using tested techniques from other commodities to be innovatively applied to the carbon market.A. Saenz-CoreN. Erdmannhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/307125http://www.search4dev.nl/record/307125In many developing countries implementation of "Integrated Water Resources Management" (IWRM) is stalled, and frustration is rising. This Innovation Brief proposes a practical way forward: "Pragmatic River Basin Development and Management" (PRBDM). Euroconsult Mott MacDonald is prepared to collaborate with governments, development partners and basin stakeholders to implement this concrete and practical approach for optimizing the benefits of effective river basin management.D. VermillionD.J. Merreyhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/297297http://www.search4dev.nl/record/297297Vocational Education and Training (VET) is increasingly seen as a key to poverty alleviation and social cohesion and a chance for countries to jump on the bandwagon of development and globalization. VET is a highly diversified educational supply system. More than general education, it can contribute to economic development, create employment and respond to the labour market. However, VET is underfunded, fails to cater for tertiary education, and has difficulty keeping up with technological and labour market developments. A new Strategic Framework could help governments identify policy requirements to realize a modern market-oriented, flexible VET system.G. van der Molenhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/297294http://www.search4dev.nl/record/297294Rising urbanization, denser populations, diversifying economies, multiplying uses of water, global climate change, rising competition for water, and rising water scarcity are all making water conflicts become increasingly pervasive, frequent and intense. Courts often lack expertise in water disputes and they may be too slow and unreliable. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a less formal, less costly, and more participatory process for resolving disputes than is adjudication through formal legal channels. It has the advantages of being flexible, voluntary, and under partial control of stakeholders. It tends to push disputants into becoming partners in creating solutions. Adopting Alternative Dispute Resolution for water conflicts may require the following initial steps: 1. assessment of the need for ADR in the water sector of a particular country; 2. pilot adoption of ADR at basin or administrative level; 3. pilot adoption of ADR at canal or local level; and 4. preparation of a long-term strategy.D.L. Vermillion