Seminar: Stats- og kapacitetsopbygning i svage stater – Erfaringer fra Kosovo

TIME: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 14 – 16

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

Capacity and capacity building play an increasingly important role in the international endeavours to promote good governance and build states and resilience.

TIME: Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 14 – 16

VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K

Capacity and capacity building play an increasingly important role in the international endeavours to promote good governance and build states and resilience.

A sweeping gaze on the state-building agenda reveals how the success of the full spectrum of state-building ‘technologies’ and their sustainability are viewed as ultimately depending on capacity.

In this context, ‘coaching and mentoring for capacity’ has become an increasingly popular approach within the state-building community.

Compared to decades of institutional approaches, it represents a turn towards the contextualized individual and personal capabilities and dispositions as the critical area of reform.

Yet confusion mostly remains: What is capacity? How may it be ‘built’? What has so far been accomplished?

This seminar presents lessons learned and reflections from the Capacity Development Facility Project (CBF) in Kosovo.

CBF is a joint UNDP and Kosova Foundation for Open Society initiative. Initiated as a pilot project, the CDF Project is in its eighth year and has become one of the most effective tools supporting the Government of Kosovo in capacity development.

Speakers:
Marta K. Gazideda, Project Manager, Capacity Development Facility Project
Frederik Rosén, Postdoc, DIIS

Programme:

14.00-14.10: Introduction; Frederik Rosén, Postdoc, DIIS

14.10-14.55: The Capacity Development Facility Project, Kosovo; Marta K. Gazideda, Project Manager, Capacity Development Facility Project

14.55-15.10: Coffee Break

15.10-16.00: Q & A

Chair: Frederik Rosén, Postdoc, DIIS

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and use the online registration form on the website no later than Tuesday, 22 May at 12.00 noon.

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.