Basic CD for AIS Principles promoted by the TAP Common Framework

Promotion of collaboration and teamwork

CD for AIS also means a shift in the culture of research and development (R&D) organizations from an exclusive focus on individual merit and competition to promoting collaboration and teamwork within and between organizations.

Responsiveness to expressed needs of actors

CD for AIS interventions must respond to expressed needs of actors. It cannot be designed and implemented by external actors with a well-defined and standardized set of products and services

Ownership by local actors

CD for AIS is an endogenous process and ownership by ownership by local actors is paramount to its success; collective energy, motivation and commitment of stakeholders to engage in a process of change are crucial.

Facilitative leadership and commitment

CD for AIS is not politically neutral, it involves questioning and sometimes upsetting the status quo and may lead to conflict; it therefore needs strong, facilitative leadership and commitment.

Iterative process

CD for AIS is an iterative process rather than a one-off time-bound intervention. Capacity needs of today will change tomorrow based on experience gained in the face of new challenges or emerging opportunities.

Multi-dimensional and multi-actor process

CD for AIS is a multi-dimensional and multi-actor process that goes well beyond the direct transfer of knowledge and skills at the individual level and addresses in an integrated manner organizational and institutional dimensions.

Capacity to adapt

CD for AIS interventions go beyond improving immediate performance and develop the capacity to adapt to new and constantly changing environments, to learn and analyse the internal and external context and to relate and build partnerships and pro-actively plan the future.

Contect-specificity

CD for AIS is context-specific and no blueprint or one-size-fits-all recipe can be applied.

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