About the CDDE

The Capacity Development for Development Effectiveness (CDDE) Facility was established in March 2009 to respond to the demands of partner countries from Asia and the Pacific for peer-to-peer initiatives that will help them improve the management of their aid partnerships in pursuit of development effectiveness and poverty reduction. Read the CDDE Launch Report.

The CDDE Facility serves a Community of Practice of over 500 members. 21 countries across Asia and the Pacific have so far benefited from the CDDE Facility, including: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam.

Asia-Pacific Aid Effectiveness Community of Practice

CDDE Launch, 12-13 March 2009, Manila

The CDDE Facility gives policy makers and practitioners from governments, civil society organizations, parliaments and donor agencies of the region, access to a wide range of innovative capacity development services to support them as they work towards localizing and implementing the principles and actions set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and Accra Agenda for Action (AAA).

The CDDE Facility provides three service lines:

1. Peer-to-peer: strengthening collaboration on aid effectiveness across the region

Support and facilitate peer-to-peer initiatives so countries can directly support each other in taking forward good practice

• Laos-led "Joint Initiative on Mutual Accountability"
• Sri Lanka-led "Asia-Pacific Voice: Influencing and Contributing to the OECD DAC WP-EFF"
• Timor Leste-led "Better data, Better Aid: Peer Learning on Aid Information Management Systems"
• Parliaments and Aid Effectiveness: Supporting National Accountability
• Reality of Aid-led initiative to strengthen the inclusiveness of aid policy dialogue

2. Knowledge management: connecting people and knowledge

Strengthen knowledge management across the Asia-Pacific region so officials from different countries can access the aid effectiveness information and expertise that they need

• Asia Pacific Aid Effectiveness Community of Practice NEWSLETTER

3. Capacity development services: assessing needs and strategies to meet them

Assist partner countries in accessing capacity assessments tools and good practices and in formulating successful aid effectiveness capacity development responses.

More information on CDDE Facility is provided in CDDE programme document.

The 2009 CDDE Facility work plan reflects partner country priorities and was developed by the Asia-Pacific Community of Practice in Manila in March 2009. This work plan outlines the various activities being implemented under the three CDDE service lines. CDDE progress is monitored through the CDDE Results Dashboard .

To ensure that it delivers high quality capacity development support, the CDDE is governed by a Steering Committee made of governments, civil society organisations and donor agencies active in the Asia-Pacific Aid Effectiveness CoP.