1. GAC-in-Projects through a Capacity Development Lens
Nicola Smithers, WBICR
June 22, 2011

2. Capacity Development Themes for GAC-in-Projects
Sustainable Institutional Change
CD Results Focus and Monitoring
Connecting to Knowledge
Collective Action

3. Change process by empowered stakeholders
Capacity Development Perspective on GAC-in-Projects Risk Assessment and Project Design CD
Outcome
Policy Instruments
Institutional Capacity Constraints
Stakeholder Ownership
Organizational Arrangements
e.g. TAP
Change process by empowered stakeholders
Project Interventions
GAC Tools
Core Project

4. Empowering stakeholders to apply GAC tools and approaches to bring about change
Empowered Stakeholders
Capable - Motivated
Acting Collectively
Intermediate outcome
Intermediate Capacity Outcome and Measurement
Awareness-Knowledge-Skills-Know how
Consensus–Teams-Coalitions-Networks
Capacity Development Activities
Convening and Coalescing, Knowledge Exchange,
Innovation, Structured Learning

5. Capacity Development Activities to Support GAC-in-Projects
Convening & coalescing
Knowledge Exchange
Innovation
Structured Learning
Multi-stakeholder Coalitions
(eg. Pharmaceutical Procurement in East Africa)
Networks
(eg. ANSA, PACs)
Collaborative Leadership (eg. Collaborative Leadership Toolkit)
Communities of Practice (eg. PEM PAL in ECA)
South-South exchange
(e.g Nigeria-India call centers)
F2F
(eg. local and regional institutes)
E-Learning (eg. e-Institute)
Action Learning
(eg. Rapid Results Approach)
ICT
(eg. Monitoring service delivery with mobile phones in DRC)
Mapping
(eg. Extractive Industries)
Competitions
(eg. Competition Platform)

6. Contract Monitoring in Ghana
Collective Action
Connecting to Knowledge
Sustainable Institutional Change
Results Focus
Multi-stakeholder coalition monitors contracts between oil companies and the government
GOXI network for peer learning
E-learning on how to read & monitor contracts
Auditor-General to analyze contracts
Government has committed to public disclosure and legislation is under development