16th Meeting of Senior Fellowships Officers of the ... - Development

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continue the partnership with the World Bank. The bidding process included two aspects.
One side was the technical or quality aspect of how well the programme met the
training needs. The other side was the financial aspect of how much a university was
willing or able to contribute to the programme. In the case of Japan, a bidding process
had been launched among four Universities but only three were selected.
130. The Honourable Dr. Gurirab sought more information on the African Capacity Building
Foundation. It was his intention to send some Members of Parliament from Namibia
to receive training in managerial skills. Mr. Braham added that the above foundation
was an important NGO which was funded by three agencies and thirty-two
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131. The representative of ITTO, Ms. Aoki, inquired about the benefits of the partner institution
in the JJ/WBGSP. Mr. Braham replied that the academic institutions had a general
interest in working with international organizations that represented the international
community and were often the main multilateral body in a specific area of research. He
took the example of WHO which was the main multilateral institution for health and
therefore a very desirable partner for the department of health studies in a given academic
institution. International organizations were also closer to the field which was of particular
interest to academic institutions that offered studies in development and accepted
international students.
L. Partnerships with Various Organizations,
prepared by Mr. Cesar M. Mercado, DCAAP
132. Mr. Mercado’s paper underlined that DCAAP considered partnership with other organizations
as a major strategy for survival and growth of self-financed training institutions.
In the last decade (1995-2005) DCAAP owed its survival and growth to the
partnership with other organizations. DCAAP was a Manila-based international training
and consulting non-profit organization that offered to partner organizations five
interrelated services – Training, Research and Development, Publication, Consultancy
and Study Tours. DCAAP originated from the UNDP Asia and Pacific Programme
for Development Training and Communication Planning (UNDP/DTCP) which was
delivered by UNICEF in 1970 and adopted by the UNDP in 1978. The latter passed
it on to UNOPS in 1990 and ceased its operation in 1995 due to UN downsizing.
Upon closure of UNDP/DTCP in 1995, DCAAP registered as a private training and
consultancy organization with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the
Government of the Philippines. Mr. Mercado emphasized that since DCAAP came
into being, it had received no direct funding from any local or international organization.
Its income was derived mainly from tuition fees of its training participants and
partly from the sale of its books and guidebooks. Through partnership with other institutions
DCAAP had been able to accomplish several outputs from 1995 to 2005: It
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