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Capacity Building Programmes. Nuffic administers institutional cooperation programmes (capacity building) and international mobility programmes (scholarships):The 3 institutional cooperation programmes that Nuffic administers:In number of countries: NFP (60); NPT (14); NICHE (23):The Netherland
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1. Nufficscapacity-building &Tanzania Dr Carin Vijfhuizen,
Nuffic Senior Programme Administrator
13 September 2011
2. Capacity Building Programmes Nuffic administers institutional cooperation programmes (capacity building) and international mobility programmes (scholarships):
The 3 institutional cooperation programmes that Nuffic administers:
In number of countries: NFP (60); NPT (14); NICHE (23):
The Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP and NFP 2009 +)
The Netherlands Programme for the Institutional Strengthening of
Post-secondary Education and Training Capacity (NPT) 2003-2012
The Netherlands Initiative for Capacity building in Higher Education (NICHE), 2009-2012
3. Aim of Capacity-building
Enhance and strengthen in developing countries:
the performance of individuals
and organizations
to educate and train expertise
and to assist them evolving in new areas.
4. Main outputs of Capacity- building in NPT/NICHE project Strengthen management (HRM) or restructuring
New accredited BSc/MSc programmes/curricula in identified sectoral areas
Training of staff in lecturing new courses/research/ict
PhD/MSc for staff
Investment (library/computers)
Consultancy expertise to earn own money
Business plan
Research/Publications
Focus on Integrated capacity building: project, organization, ministry
Dutch providers provide a wide range of expertise in a project through forming consortia and including individual consultants.
5. NPT support in Tanzania Building capacity in Entrepreneurship/business development:
Universities: UDSM, Iringa, Mzumbe
TE: CBE, ZHTI
VT: Morogoro Vocational Instructor Training College
Building capacity in Governance/decentralisation:
National authority: NACTE (217 TE), CBedu
TE: TIA, TPSC, IFM, IRDP
Universities: Mzumbe
Health: Ministry of health and social welfare (skills labs and PBL)
6. Policy principles for NICHE Demand driven approach and local ownership
Alignment with national/bilateral policies & progrs
Integrated capacity building: project, organization and the ministry
Harmonization with other donor programmes
Coherence among NICHE projects: to make it a programme
Sustainability of the project results
7. Policy principles for NICHE Attention for gender and labour market needs (employment needs)
Modern forms of capacity building
Organizational learning approach: improve practices through systematic approaches (M&E; reflection)
Steering towards outputs and outcomes; using benchmarks and indicators
Use of regional and local expertise