From: WBI News <wbinews@worldbank.org>
Subject: WBI News July / August 2009
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Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 1:32 PM
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In this issue:
The New WBIFeature Stories • Fragile States: Building Capacity through Leadership and Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions
• Experts Raise the Bar on Learning for Capacity Building - Harvesting Collective Wisdom for Action
• World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities 5
• Fighting Corruption through Collective Action
• WBI Co-founder William Diamond Remembered
Competitions
• Global Development Marketplace Announces Finalists
• Latin America & Caribbean Development Marketplace Announces Call for Proposals
• Development Marketplace on Nutrition: World Bank Awards $840,000 for Grassroot Organizations in South Asia
Publication
• Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa
WBI on the Web
WBI's New Structure Emphasizes Results for Capacity Building
The World Bank Institute has recently shifted its strategy in response to the widespread recognition - in the Accra Agenda for Action, for example - that capacity development is a vital element in any effective strategy to reduce poverty. WBI's mission is to be a global facilitator of capacity development for poverty reduction, helping leaders inside and outside government, as well as institutions, and coalitions address their capacity constraints to achieving development results.
WBI now focuses on seven topics that are aligned with the World Bank's corporate priorities and responsive to demand from clients, including:
- Fragile and Post-Conflict States
- Growth and Crisis
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Health Systems Strengthening
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Urban Development
In addition, WBI is making innovation a central pursuit, notably through its stewardship of global and regional Development Marketplace competitions. WBI News will continue to highlight new events, competitions, projects, and publications from WBI's programs.
Fragile States: Building Capacity through Leadership and Multi-Stakeholder Coalitions
WBI Vice President Sanjay Pradhan was joined by experts from the World Bank and civil society organizations on July 16th in a discussion about the importance of capacity building for fragile states and successful strategies for implementing capacity building programs in post-conflict regions. The experts emphasized that the most useful knowledge comes from those practitioners who have worked in fragile states, and that capacity always exists in some form in fragile states, such as the ability to organize troops and ordnance or manage the complexity of multiple donor agencies. "Capacity building for fragile states is one of WBI's top priorities," said Pradhan. He noted that WBI is developing a series of peer-to-peer knowledge exchanges, a mentoring program, and collaborations with local and regional institutes that will allow them to deliver effective, targeted learning programs.
Read more about strategies for building capacity in fragile states
Experts Raise the Bar on Learning for Capacity Building - Harvesting Collective Wisdom for Action
A key outcome from the forum, Improving the Results of Learning for Capacity Building, held at WBI June 17-19, was that current practices do not involve enough consultation with targeted countries. As the 71 experts from 30 multilateral and bilateral capacity building institutions explored new ways of defining and measuring the results of learning programs for capacity building a clear consensus evolved: Donor-funded programs and course content do not take sufficient account of local needs and conditions.
Read more about what models and experience can lead to better capacity results
To continue the conversation, an online community of practice for capacity development practicioners has been formed, where anyone can find resources from the forum and beyond, and discuss the issues with other experts and practitioners.
Join the Capacity Development online community
World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities 5
Intangible intellectual capital resources are now largely recognized as the most important sources of an organizations' competitive advantage. Intangible investments, such as R&D, innovation, and knowledge creation and fertilization, are critical determinants of performance for both companies and nations. On May 28-29, 2009, the World Bank Institute hosted an important event on Intellectual Capital (IC5) in Paris. It was the fifth conference on this topic, organized in partnership with the European Chair on Intellectual Capital Management of University of Paris-Sud. This year's event explored the challenges and opportunities stemming from today's global crisis and its impact on intellectual capital, as well as topics such as open innovation, innovation and demography, and intellectual capital of nations, regions, and cities.
Read more, download the agenda, and access learning materials
Fighting Corruption through Collective Action
On June 8-11, 2009, WBI welcomed practitioners engaged in private-sector focused anti-corruption efforts worldwide to the Executive Development Program (EDP) on "Fighting Corruption through Collective Action in Today's Competitive Market Places." The participants represented companies, business associations, civil society groups, international organizations and government. The program highlighted case studies, including a successful industry initiative in Nigeria with possible expansion to Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal. The 35 participants from all regions agreed to create a network of peers to continue sharing knowledge.
Learn more about collective action and this event: www.fightingcorruption.org
Watch video: How to Engage the Private Sector in the Fight Against Corruption: the Case of Nigeria
Watch video: The Power of Private Sector to Counter Corruption
WBI Co-founder William Diamond Remembered
William Diamond, one the first full-time teachers at the World Bank Institute—then known as the Economic Development Institute—passed away at his Washington home May 16. He was 92. In addition to being among the founders of WBI, he literally "wrote the book" on development banking. Development Banks, published in 1957, was a seminal work widely used in universities around the world. The three years he spent at EDI were, "one of the high points of my years at the Bank," he recalled in a memoir. "Nowhere else, I think, would it have been possible to pack in at that time so extensive an exposure to both cutting-edge thinking and on-the-ground experience. No less important was the fact that we were doing something for the first time, that had not been done before or elsewhere."
Read more about William Diamond
Development Marketplace Competition Announces Finalists
On July 31, the Development Marketplace competition announced that 100 finalists have been selected to showcase their ideas in the 2009 Global Development Marketplace Competition on Climate Adaptation (DM2009) at World Bank headquarters this November. As many as 25 of these finalists will receive grants of up to $200,000 to implement their projects. The DM2009 finalist cohort consists of social entrepreneurs and development practitioners from 47 countries and represents the most innovative and high-potential project ideas in the areas of:
· Resilience of Indigenous Peoples Communities to Climate Risks
· Climate Risk Management with Multiple Benefits
· Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management
Read more about the finalists
Read the Development Marketplace Blog
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Announces Call for Proposals
The World Bank recently launched a new regional Development Marketplace for innovative development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The call for proposals is now open. The competition funds small-scale grassroots development projects that have the potential for expansion or replication and address aspects of entrepreneurship under the defined windows. The 2010 Regional Development Marketplace is focused on Youth Developing Opportunity: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability.
Read more about the competition
Development Marketplace on Nutrition: World Bank Awards $840,000 for Grassroot Organizations in South Asia
Twenty-one civil society organizations from across South Asia won grants on August 5 in Dhaka from an $840,000 award pool funded by the South Asia Region Development Marketplace (DM). The winners received up to $40,000 each to implement innovative ideas on how to improve nutrition in their respective countries.
Read more about the winners
Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa
Edited by Kurt Larsen, Ronald Kim and Florian Theus, June 2009
This book examines the rise of agricultural innovation in four African countries – Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda – through the lens of agribusiness and public policies. The book contextualizes innovation by describing the actors and interactions that affect the quality and volume of innovative strategies for growing crops in Africa. The book finds that innovation is driven by the need to maintain standards for both export and domestic markets; that innovation is not always the exclusive purview of non-staple foods, and that the public must support innovation through collective action, public-private partnerships, and individual actions.
Read more
Visit our website to see new feature articles on a range of WBI activities and programs, including:
• Innovation: The Silicon Valley Approach to Building Capacity with Social Entrepreneurs
• Governance: New Course Addresses Accountability in Education
Read past newsletters at WBI News Archives.
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