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Introduction to the new Capacity4dev

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What is capacity4dev? What is the utility of this tool?

Capacity4dev is a tool that:• can support daily work of teams across the globe through

Secure collaboration spaces • Connects HQ and Delegations, enhances networking /

sharing among delegations in an easy way• Connects with the external world outside the EC by sharing

information, allowing participation in discussions / forums

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• Key information IS in Delegation /countries

• HQ can contribute with reference documents, information from other donors

• per default all E.C. documents are public except if concerning personal information (CV, ..) and financial data

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Capacity4Dev : Water sector (2) proposed orientations

2 Groups : - Public Group on Water and Sanitation : open to external members (free consultation but membership required to contribute)

- Waternet internal EC staff only : restricted to internal staff (Del + HQ)

First focus on : - library : recover and improve the current WaterNet content

+ what YOU will bring to the system !!

- discussions / forum : to avoid multiples exchanges and chat under Outlook as today

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EuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidCapacity4dev : already done :

• Waternet wiki documents uploaded

• Workshops created as Events : related documents uploaded

• Search functionality through tags

Now you can look for documents, start a discussion, put a comment or a blog post

and … upload documents !!

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Sign in if you want to contribute –for that, it s necessary to request membership

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You can choose multiple

categories

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Here you can write a question/start a discussion

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Title of the blog post

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EuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidThe orientation chosen by Transport

EuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidThe Transport Thematic Network 1/6

• The official Transport Thematic Network will be hosted by a group on Cap4Dev

• This group is private (invisible to the public) and can be joined only on invitation. (invitations to all networks members will be sent starting from this week)

• Members can invite members but membership has to be approved by E7

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Library

Help

EuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidThe Transport Thematic Network 3/6

• All documents available on Circa have been reviewed, selected, classified and uploaded in the Cap4Dev library (categories and tags system)

• The blog is used to publish interesting articles from other sources and to start discussions, consultations…

• Upcoming events are published in the calendar. Supporting documents can be attached.

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You can choose multiple categories. Only the

document(s) matching all of them will be shown.

Very long list of categories

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EuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidEuropeAidThe PUBLIC GROUP ON Transport

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• This group is visible and accessible to the public.

• The blog is currently used to post interesting and relevant articles on transport

• The type of documents to be available in the library of this group is still under discussion (what is to be public or not?)

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• Capacity4Dev is still work in progress. New features will be added soon, in order to improve the tool

And remember: This is a collaborative site: articles, comments,

participation, posts, ideas … are welcome!

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DEBATE :

• Useful for you ?

• How to use it ?

• How are you ready to contribute ?

• How to organise the facilitation/moderation ?

•Objective / Constraints