This document is a report on the results of the consultation phase of our Frameworks for Assessing Resilience project in Guatemala.

This working paper examines the competency requirements for effective advising in international cooperation contexts.

This working paper examines the effectiveness of technical assistance in past years.

This report examines the process through which the 2012 elections were held. It highlights challenges that faced major stakeholders, and reflects upon the Academy for Peace and Development’s (APD) sustained efforts to analyse these challenges and help devise mechanisms to overcome them. Finally, the report identifies a number of lessons that Somaliland must learn from […]

This is a podcast of the discussion between four experts from the African Great Lakes region on ‘Youth in the context of identity-based manipulation.’ They participated in the ‘Voix des Grands Lacs’, a topical radio show produced as part of the Cross-border Dialogue for Peace in the Great Lakes Region Programme, implemented by Interpeace and […]

‘Technical assistance’ in the form of international experts and advisers, and loans and grants for ‘institutional reform’ constitute a huge share of official development assistance. Yet a growing body of comparative and cumulative evaluations, further bolstered by academic research, show that its overall effectiveness in terms of better functioning governments, is limited at best. There […]