The primary mandate of the force remained the protection of civilians and humanitarian assistance providers as well as the monitoring of the implementation of agreements, assistance in the development of political processes, and promotion of good governance.
This article consolidates the experience of stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of technical assistance in India, including government, donors, and implementing partners.
The ability for rapid implementation of cash assistance programs depends largely on the organization's capacity to collect necessary data, identify and work with local partners, and appropriately design context-specific program plans.
For instance, an elaborated implementation of electronic assistance may be advisable.
An elaborated implementation of electronic assistance may be useful but must be carefully considered regarding the anticipated outcomes.
While progress has been made in terms of recorded commitments to the care of orphans and the implementation of material assistance to ECD facilities, there are several constraints that have limited the potential progress of the OCP in Omusati Region.
Most countries however have shaped their packages on other bases, such as responding to national needs and expectations and assessments of available resources, though without necessarily having fully interrogated what resources are – or can be made to be – truly available, and in the absence of a clear definition and implementation of international assistance obligations.
In an effort to improve the harmonisation of aid, in 2007 the EU produced an EU Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour in Development Policy, which provides a framework for the implementation of development assistance between the EU and EU member states, including the pursuit of more effective collaboration within the multilateral (ML) aid system.
Capacity building in foreign assistance efforts has in the past often entailed donor country organizations driving the design and implementation of their technical assistance programs without equal participation from partner country organizations.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/147/prepub We present special thanks to the Foreign Loan office of the Ministry of Health in China for organizing the implementation of (international technical assistance to) this operational research and to the universities as well as CDCs involved for their active participation.
