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Needs assessment, technical assistance, independence and knowledge transfer
Capacity development and technical assistance covers how risk capability is built in people, organisations and systems: needs assessment, the design of technical assistance and field assignments, team formation, independence and conflicts of interest, project risk and closeout, knowledge transfer and the monitoring of capacity change.
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Twin figures for the Horn of Africa and the Nile basin states, counted from its layers at their stated dates.
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The discipline teaches capacity needs assessment, terms of reference and theory of change writing, team formation and roles, conflict of interest management, duty of care on field assignments, project risk management and monitoring and evaluation, under ISO 31000 and the project risk practice the planned courses teach. On the faculty's globe its case is the institutional landscape of the Horn of Africa, read from records rather than assumed. A graduate can assess a capacity need, write the terms of reference for an assignment and monitor whether capacity changed.
This area covers how risk capability is built in people, organisations and systems: needs assessment, the design of technical assistance and field assignments, team formation, independence and conflicts of interest, project risk and closeout, knowledge transfer and the monitoring of capacity change. It is taught in the department of Governance, Public Policy and Foresight, Faculty of Governance, Policy and International Affairs, through 1 course with it as primary discipline and 1 more that also teach it.
8 subtopics, taught across its courses and labs.
Not yet taught by a course: Technical assistance and capacity development practice.
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