The Institutional Development and Capacity Building Component Sample Clauses

The Institutional Development and Capacity Building Component. (a) Strengthening Capacity for Policy Analysis (the Policy Analysis sub-Programme). Capacity for policy analysis in MOFA, MAF and CPI shall be developed to provide informed recommendations to the Borrower’s governmental policy makers concerning poverty reduction, rural development, empowerment of women and pro-poor policies, through the following activities: - establishment of a small Policy Analysis Unit in MOFA. - documentation of relevant lessons learned, best practices and potentially beneficial innovations from the experience of the Borrower’s government, the Fund, GTZ and possibly other bilateral and multilateral supported rural poverty reduction programmes. - analysis and dissemination of these lessons, assessing their implications for future policy formulation and improvement and feeding the information into the policy making machinery of the Borrower’s government. - engagement in discussion with policy makers of the impact of rural development policies on the poor and the subsequent formulation of pro-poor policies by the Borrower’s government. - establishment and operation of a website, preparation of case studies and policy papers, and conducting workshops and seminars.