DevComm leads the communications and outreach activities of Capacity4dev, the European Commission’s online knowledge-sharing platform that connects international cooperation professionals. Its users include EU institution staff, as well as international cooperation professionals from EU member states, partner governments, civil society, NGOs, international organisations, and the private sector.

Created in 2009 and managed by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA), Capacity4dev aims to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of EU interventions in external action by:

• Facilitating collaboration and engagement among peers.

• Enabling cross-learning among practitioners from EU institutions and other organisations.

• Supporting thematic expertise, sharing lessons learnt, and exchanging innovative approaches.

• Consolidating knowledge-sharing tools and communities of practice in a common environment.

DevComm provides services under the contract “Support to Programming, Monitoring, Evaluation and Knowledge Sharing in the EU External Action”, which aims to enhance performance quality, institutional learning, and accountability for better-targeted and more sustainable EU external action.

Project owner: European Commission

• Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA)

• Directorate-General for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf (MENA)

• Directorate-General for Enlargement and the Eastern Neighbourhood (ENEST)

• Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI)

Consortium: SQuaRE by MEL (Lead: Particip)

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