CEF with Donor Organizations on Sustainable Development

CEF together with other donor agencies and multilateral organizations participated at the 2015 learn4dev network annual meeting. Participants looked ahead to the post-2015 world of development and discussed the new challenges it poses and explored how we can use organizational learning and the learn4dev network to adapt to the new development agenda.

Sanjay Pradhan, key note speaker talked about the World Bank knowledge hub and evolving attitudes to learning and Duncan Green, intervened on how international donors will have to and should be adapting to the post-2015 world of development. It was concluded that the new world of development will require new types  of cooperation among partners and people, capabilities to find new approaches for promoting change will have to be developed in addition to the culture of innovation, risk taking etc. In this context Jana Repanšek, CEF Deputy Director led the discussion on our organizational challenge on how to empower staff to safely walk on the edge and innovate. 

Meeting was co-organized by Department for International Development (DFID) and the European Commission on June 15-17, 2015 in DFID premises in East Kilbride, Scotland. CEF that co-organized the 2014 annual meeting  presented a review of the realized commitments since the last years annual meeting held in Ljubljana. 

In the following year organizations will cooperate in the framework of established learn4dev expert groups. New proposals for cooperation were put forward. CEF will cooperate on the project on managing results of learning and visualization techniques, the initiatives of World Bank Institute and International Training Centre of International Labour Organization (ITC ILO). CEF initative for cooperation on the topic of physical design of a learning environment attracted Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), French Agency for Development (AFD) and EC – Europeaid.

The new Core Group of the network was elected at the meeting. It will be composed out of 2016 annual meeting organizers: FAO and AFD (France) and this year`s organizers EC and DfID that will hold the role of Chair with Clive Martlew. Additionally BTC that covers communications will remain part of the core group. 

 More information on the meeting and the learn4dev network is available on the learn4dev website.