Reflections on mentoring experiences for evidence-informed decision-making in South Africa and Malawi

This article is based on the consensus that the availability and utilisation of research enhances policy discussions. The article reflects on the experiences within one approach: capacity building through mentoring. The UJ-BCURE programme aimed to increase the capacity of decision-makers to use evidence in decision-making via mentoring models. Mentoring is described as an interactive, facilitated process that promotes learning. The features of the models that have contributed to the programme’s success are orientation workshops with mentees combined with participatory, needs-led, and flexible approaches. UJ-BCURE experiences are relevant to the field of evidence-informed decision-making in an African government context.     

The role of foreign donors in rebuilding the Ukrainian nation-state

The viewpoint discusses the role of foreign donors in rebuilding the Ukrainian nation-state. It argues that a gardener’s care is needed – not guidance, traditional teaching, or direction, but assistance. Foreign donors’ activities should be oriented principally to the support of internal points of growth, social and economic. The task of empowering actors that show promise to propel socio-economic development from within can and should be prioritised. The policies of empowering local actors (as opposed to financing the government and established businesses) involve first and foremost supporting bottom-up initiatives and start-ups that have demonstrated their relevance and promise.     

Enabling collaborative synthesis in multi-partner programmes

Multi-partner consortia have emerged as an important modality for knowledge generation to address complex sustainability challenges. Establishing effective multi-partner consortia involves significant investment. This article shares lessons from the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), which aims to support policy and practice for climate change adaptation through a consortium model. Key lessons include the need to facilitate collaborative spaces to build trust and identify common interests, while accepting that this is not a guarantee of success; the importance of programmatic leadership to achieve synthesis; and the value of strategic planning in supporting motivation and alignment between partners.     

浅谈独立学院辅导员队伍的能力建设

首先分析了独立学院学生的特点,并用调研的数据详细剖析了独立学院辅导员的现状。针对独立学院学生的特点和辅导员的现状,从辅导员能力建设的角度提出了独立学院的辅导员应具备的六种能力,即"表达力、亲和力、掌控力、学习力、执行力和创新力",并就如何培养和提高这六种能力,提出了一些思路和方法,供学校管理者参考。     

20世纪50～60年代越南诗人素友作品在中国的传播和影响

素友是越南20世纪著名诗人,越共中央的主要领导之一。他的诗歌被越南官方视为"社会主义现实主义"文学的典范,是20世纪越南的"史诗"。20世纪50~60年代,在中越友好关系的影响下,一大批以素友诗歌为典型的越南文学作品在中国得到传播。这些越南文学作品传播到中国之后,在政治上加强了当时的政治意识形态;在文化上增进了中国读者对外国文化的了解;在学术上则带动了中国的越南文学研究。     

西部地区信息资源生产能力制约因素分析

目前,西部地区的信息生产能力明显落后于全国平均水平。其中最为关键的制约因素,或者说对今后西部地区信息资源的生产起主导性作用的因素在于:数据库生产能力和多媒体文献资源的生产能力。     

近10年来党的社会整合能力建设研究综述

党的社会整合能力建设是党夺取和巩固政权,提高执政水平的重要法宝。近10年来学术界对其进行了初步研究,取得一些成果：简要介绍党的社会整合能力建设的研究概况,从党的社会整合能力建设的相关概念、面临挑战、措施、重要意义、历史经验启示以及社会整合模式等六个方面评述主要理论观点;指出研究中存在的主要问题,提出深化研究的思路。     

现代化进程中政府能力的缺失与重构——基于发展中国家“现代化受挫”的思索

发展中国家能否摆脱“现代化受挫”的困境，关键因素在于政府能力的重构，剖析现代化进程中政府能力缺失的表现和原因，从影响政府能力建设的观念和行为因素入手，指出在现代化进程中重构政府能力的实现路径。     

产业创新:超越传统企业创新理论的新范式

产业创新是企业战略管理的主题和核心内容。通过对企业创新能力理论的简要回顾,通过分析产业创新的内涵及作用,说明企业要走可持续发展之路必须依靠产业创新。     

Increasing access to rural maternal health services in Zambia through demand-side interventions

This paper examines a demand-side intervention that significantly increased access to maternal health services in rural Zambia in a context where skilled birth attendance rates had been stagnant for over two decades. Aspects of the intervention design that were crucial to the programme's success were the participatory and adult learning-centred approach used to mobilise intervention communities, the use of a community volunteer model, and the design's sensitivity and responsiveness to underlying social factors and problems. The demand-side intervention is already being scaled up in six districts, and is highly suitable for national level scale-up.