Welcome BCO meeting 28th of August 2006 Jac Stienen, Managing Director IICD

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Welcome BCO meeting28th of August 2006Jac
Stienen, Managing Director IICD
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The Hague, residence of the government
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The Hague, City of Peace and Justice
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International Institutions

• International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former
  Yugoslavia
• International Criminal Court
• Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Eurojust
• Europol
• European Patent Office
• Global Programme of Action for the Protection of
  Marine Environment
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
  Weapons
• The Institute of Social Studies
• European Centre for Conflict Prevention

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International Institute for Communication and
development (IICD)

• Independent non-profit organisation (foundation)
• Founded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  in 1996
• International staff (33 employees)
• Head office located in The Hague

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New strategic framework 2006-2010

• Deepening our strategy and moving towards
  becoming an
• expertise organisation
• Embedding (fully operational)
• Incorporating ICT at a project, organisational
  and policy level
• Harvesting (in process)
• Collecting and disseminating the results of our
  work through
• ME activities and knowledge sharing (impact
  studies)
• Leveraging (new)
• Demonstrate and lift our experience on ICT4D to a
  broader set of
• stakeholders (impact the ICT4D agenda) through
  public and private knowledge-based strategic
  alliances.

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Why leveraging?

• To achieve a wider impact on poverty alleviation
• To integrate and fund ICT in development
  programmes
• To respond to an increasing number of requests to
  assist in mainstreaming ICT4D programmes by
  governments and donor agencies
• To share IICDs expertise with a larger number of
  Southern and Northern partners and to learn from
  partners in expertise areas not present in IICD
• To make more use of in-house expertise

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Expertise areas of leveraging

• Participatory identification of ICT4D needs and
  priorities with multiple stakeholders (health,
  governance, education and livelihoods)
• Advising on and facilitation of participative and
  multi-stakeholder ICT4D formulation processes as
  part of sector and national policies
• Mobilising and implementing effective
  multi-stakeholder networks for knowledge sharing
  and policy participation in ICT4D

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Criteria for leveraging

• Principles
• Priority to leveraging opportunities that align
  best with basic principles
• Scale
• Assistance of activities of larger-scale
  development programmes at sector or national
  level (gt 1,000,000 euros)
• Partners
• Longer-term partnership with Northern or
  Southern partners, based on a co-funding
  arrangement
• Expertise
• Availability of competent staff in the required
  expertise areas (IICD partners)
• Scope
• Focus on our key sectors education, governance,
  livelihoods and health and for leveraging in
  current focal countries.

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IICD staff August 2006

Mr Jac Stienen - Managing Director
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Board of Trustees August 2006