Capacity Development Library

Capacity Assessments

Organizational Capacity Assessment and Monitoring Tool.  (2004)  World Relief Canada.

Climate Change

Davies, M., Guenther, B., Leavy, J. Mitchell, T. and Tanner, T. (2009) Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Social Protection: Complementary Roles in Agriculture and Rural Growth?  Centre for Social Protection and Climate Change and Development Centre.  IDS Working Paper 320.

Conservation Agriculture

Canadian Foodgrains Bank (2009).  TIPS 501: Conservation Farming - Farming God's Way.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank (2011).  Abundance through Mulch and Hoe.  Conservation Farming in Zimbabwe - a case study.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank (2011).  Conservation Farming in Zimbabwe - Evaluation Report.

Derpsch, R. (2004).  History of Crop Production, With and Without Tillage.

Dryden, G.W. (2009). Farming God's Way - Trainer's Reference Guide.

FAO (2009).  Scaling up Conservation Agriculture in Africa: Strategy and Approaches.

FAO (2010).  Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Crop Intensification in Lesotho.  Integrated Crop Management Vol. 10.

Giller, K.E., Witter, E., Corbeels, M. and Tittonell, P. (2009).  Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics' view.  Field Crops Research 114 23-34.

Knowler, D. and Bradshaw, B. (2006).  Farmers' adoption of conservation agriculture: A review and synthesis of recent research.  Food Policy 32  25-48

Mazvimavi, K., Ndlovu, P.V., Nyathi, P. and Minde, I.J. (2010).  Conservation Agriculture Practices and Adoption by Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe.

Milder, J.C., Majanen, T. and Scherr, S. (2011).  Performance and Potential of Conservation Agriculture for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Scopel et. al. (2001).  Direct seeding mulch-based cropping systems (DMC) in Latin America.

Sustainable Agriculture Information Initiative (2010). Technical Manual - Conservation Agriculture.

Twomlow, S., Urolov, J.C., Jenrich, M. and Oldrieve, B. (2008).  Lessons from the field - Zimbabwe's Conservation Agriculture Task Force.

Zimbabwe Conservation Agriculture Taskforce Zimbabwe Conservation Agriculture Manual (2009).  Farming for the Future - A Guide to Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe.

Food Security Interventions – Best Practice

Maxwell, D., Sadler, K., Sim, Mutonyi, M., Egan, R. and Webster, M. (2008) Good Practice Review – Emergency food security interventions – December 2008

Featured in March 2010 Food Justice Update Full Report: Malawi-Mozambique Inter-Member Food Security Delegation  January -February 2010

Impact Assessment


Catley, A., Burns, J., Abebe, D. and Sui, W. (2007) Participatory Impact Assessment – A Guide for Practitioners.  Tufts University.

Livestock and Emergencies


Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards.  2009

Links


Capacity.org – A web magazine intended for practitioners and policy makers who work in or on capacity development in international cooperation in the South.

EARS – Satellite based crop yield forecast tool for southern Africa region.

ELDIS – Electronic document resource library on development policy, practice and research.

ENN – Emergency Nutrition Network dedicated to improve effectiveness of emergency food and nutrition interventions through identification and dissemination of lessons learnt in the course of operational practice and through research and evaluation.  Also have a large on-line catalogue.

Harrow International Training – Training Center in South Africa for NGO staff.

Humanitarian Practice Network – HPN is an independent forum for humanitarians to share and disseminate information, analysis and experience.

ILEIA - Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture promotes exchange of information for small-scale farmers in the South through identifying promising technologies involving no or only marginal external inputs, but building on local knowledge and traditional technologies and the involvement of the farmers themselves in development. Information about these technologies is exchanged mainly through LEISA Magazine.

IRIN: Humanitarian News and Analysis – UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

International NGO Training and Research Centre – Support NGOs and CSOs working in the international development and relief sector on policy issues, and by strengthening management and organizational effectiveness.

Mosaic.net International – Private consulting firm providing training for NGO staff in Canada.

NGO Manager – Provides resources, training courses, and research on how to improve management capacity building.

Wahenga.net – Focusing on the food security situation in southern Africa, Wahenga promotes awareness and advocacy on social transfers and social protection in the Southern African Development Community.

Power and International Aid


Eyben, R. (2008) Power, Mutual Accountability and Responsibility in the Practice of International Aid: A Relational Approach.  Institute of Development Studies.

Results Based Management Tools


Managing for Change: Introducing the Art of Results Based Management (PLAN:NET - January 2009):  This document introduces the language and concepts of results focused planning and management using the standard "results chain" diagram as well as the Splash and Ripple metaphor.