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Created: Saturday, 07 December 2013 11:00
Bente Consulting ApS has prepared and facilitated an internal workshop on Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) for staff at the Danida Technical Advisory Services (Danish: UFT). The workshop took place 3-4 December with 18 participants and aimed at sharing experience and identify good practices and HRBA tools, which can be used in the roll-out of the HRBA to embassies. The workshop was the culmination of an interactive planning process, which started in October. Workshop results are summarized in an internal working paper for UFT to carry forward. Read more about the Danida HRBA Guidance Note here.
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Created: Thursday, 12 September 2013 19:11
Bente Consulting has supported the work of MSF's (Medecins Sans Frontieres / Læger uden Grænser) work in Syria with a donation of DKK 2.000. Read more about MSF in Syria here.
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Created: Saturday, 06 July 2013 11:09
LO/FTF Council - the Danish trade union council for international development co-operation - has contracted Bente Consulting ApS to undertake an internal evaluation of their Southern Africa program. The evaluation will among other things focus on lessons learned in the areas of organizational development, advocacy and the informal sector. The evaluation will include field visits to Mozambique and Malawi and start by the end of September. Read more about LO/FTF here.
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Created: Friday, 05 July 2013 10:34
The Danish Association of the Blind (DBS) supports their sister organizations in Laos and Mongolia through a regional program in Asia. Bente Consulting ApS in collaboration with local consultants will undertake an evaluation of the program, adressing issues related to the regional program set-up, advocacy work and monitoring practices. The preliminary findings will be presented and discussed at a seminar in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia by mid-August 2013. Read more about DBS here (in Danish).
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Created: Friday, 05 July 2013 10:28
The Women's Council of Denmark (Kvinderådet), the Danish Association of Women's Shelters (LOKK) and Danner are preparing a partnership agreement with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a program adressing Violence Against Women in the Middle East and North Africa. Bente Consulting ApS facilitates the elaboration of the program document in close collaboration with the three organizations. Get more information about the Danish-Arab Partnership Programme here.
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Created: Friday, 24 May 2013 11:19
Bente Consulting ApS has been invited to contribute to the debate on the perspectives for a revised Danish civil society policy in connection with the publication of a recent evaluation of the Danish civil society development strategy. Download the evaluation report here. The debate will be available at www.altinget.dk/udvikling in June 2013.
10.06.2013. Read my contribution to the debate: Several evaluations of support to civil society over recent years have come up with more or less the same recommendations, but very little c...hange in the actual implementation and collaboration with local CSOs in the South has taken place. Read more discussion at Altinget.dk. And read my contribution on the need to listen to the local civil society's voice and demand for i.a. flexible and untied funding, longterm perspectives, knowledge of local context and recogntion of local CSOs' own political agendas
