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Capacity4Dev: Building Capacities To Get Things Done

The time is right for donors to support the ambitions and visions of a new generation of development-focused African leaders, according to representatives from the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, who took part in the recent Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan.

A number of sessions at the high level event reinforced the message that capacity development is crucial for achieving development outcomes in general and the Millennium Development Goals in particular. Organisations like the UK-based African Governance Initiative are committed to supporting African leaders to this end.

“When we’ve talked to presidents across Africa, one of the things they tell us is [that] they know what they want to achieve, they’re really clear about where they want to take their country [and] they’ve got the leadership ability to do it,” said AGI’s Director of Strategy and Development Andrew Ratcliffe. “But they find that often when they put their foot on the gas, nothing happens.”

“So we help them build the kind of machinery of government to deliver [and] get things done,” Mr Ratcliffe said in an interview on the sidelines of the Busan event.

Read the article in full at capacity4dev.eu and find out more about AGI's Busan event with Tony Blair and USAID Administrator Dr. Raj Shah here.