Synthesis Study on Best Practices and Innovative Approaches to Capacity Development in Low-Income African Countries

The study is to focus on the delivery of public goods and services in five sectors: health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity. This report presents the main findings and conclusions from the study.

The main purposes of the synthesis study are to:

• Draw lessons from existing evaluation reports and other studies focusing on good and innovative modes of assistance to capacity development in low-income countries;
• Indicate knowledge gaps regarding the effectiveness of these interventions;
• Propose a framework for how the impact of these innovative modes of capacity development intervention could be assessed with a view to distilling lessons for better practices;
• Develop a conceptual framework that will form the basis for a possible in-depth evaluation.
• The planned evaluation should be seen to feed into the DAC efforts to extend harmonization and aid effectiveness into the area of capacity development.