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National Institution Reform: Background – At the request of the Republic of Slovenia, CSEND designed a technical cooperation project to assist that newly independent country in reforming its central government by modernising and strengthening its administration. 2.8 million Swiss francs were contributed by the government of Switzerland and complementary contributions was made by Slovenia. The […]

CSEND Perspective CSEND Approach Foundations of CSEND Methodology OD Cycle Two OD Cycles OD Method -1 OD Method -2 OD Method -3 Examples Application to Bolivia -1 Application to Bolivia -2 Application to Bolivia -3 Application to Bolivia -4 Application to Bolivia -5 Application to Bolivia -6 Design of Capacity Building Project Learning Process Critical […]

A Negotiation Capacity Building project was implemented in Bolivia in 2000-2001 as part of the National Strategy Study (NSS) of the World Bank. The goal of the NSS Study was to strengthen Bolivia’s participation in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. The subsequent Negotiation Capacity Building project was intended as a further […]

El Requiem para la Selva Amazonica Op. 10 (1992) for a mixed choir and seven instruments was first performed in Germany in 1993 by Camerata Vocale under the direction of Klaus Braun. Oldrich Halas, of Bolivian and Czech origin, adapted the opera to the Bolivian-Amazon context in 2001. His adaptation of the original Requiem for […]

Design of a large system development project CSEND advised the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London on the design of a strategy to create a network of Business and Training Centres (BTCs) in Russia.The result of this process is the “Morozov Project”, consisting of over 30 Russian Business and Training Centres (BTCs) […]

Sino-Swiss project on “Policy Dialigue on Financing Higher Education and Sustaining the Quality of Higher Education for Lifelong Learning” Under the auspices of the OECD, CSEND experts established a framework to facilitate the development of a research network between Switzerland and China. The focus of this research network is to carry out comparative studies concerning […]

CSEND chaired a panel and gave papers on “The link between higher education and employability” and another paper on “Quality Evaluation in a Diversified Higher Education System – at an International Seminar on the Development of Higher Education and Financing Policies co-organised by OECD, Paris and the Ministry of Education, Beijing, China July 2004.

CSEND worked on a USAID-sponsored policy project for Booz Allen Hamilton. The goal of the study was to identify success factors of the Integrated Framework (IF) a WTO instrument targeted to support Least Developed Country’s supply-side deficiencies. Target interviews were conducted with officials of the Geneva-based IF agencies namely WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP and ITC. Geneva, […]

CSEND wrote background paper for a policy seminar on “Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol”, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was “Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005. Article

Administrative Reform through Training: Background The rapid growth of China’s economy over the past decade has put increasing performance pressure both on its public administration and on government officials, who have been compelled to acquire new skills in order to meet the complex challenges of the “four modernisations”. This pressure further increased after 1993, when […]