Development Workshop (DW) aims to develop local capacities so that the poor and disadvantaged can challenge the constraints that restrict their progress and utilize opportunities to their advantage.

The practical experience and lessons learned through technical assistance, training, and research programmes are in turn used to contribute to policy debates and advocate for policies that promote poverty alleviation and social justice.


"Developing local capacities to improve living conditions"


history & approach



Programme Areas

Development Workshop (DW) programmes fall under the following broad categories:

Building local capacity is a cross cutting theme across the above programme areas.

In addition, DW also provides specialist short-term advisory, evaluation and research consultancy services.


Institutional partners

Action for Environment & Rural Development (Angola)
Aga Khan Foundation
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Alternatives (Canada)
Angolan Council of Churches
Australian Aid
Canadian Baptist Ministries
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Canadian International Development Agency
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
Centre for Environment & Human Settlements (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh)
Christian Aid
Christian Michelsen Institute (Norway)
Danish Red Cross
Department for International Development U.K.
Euro Action Acord
European Development Fund
Forum of Angolan NGOs
French Development Co-operation
Government of Angola
GTZ
Groupe de Receherche et d’Echanges Technologiques (France)
Habitat International Coalition
Institute for Rural and Peasant Studies (Iran)
Intermediate Technology Development Group
Intermon (Spain)
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
International Institute for Environment & Development
International Labour Organisation
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
Irish Aid
Lund University
Lutheran World Relief
Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Norwegian People’s Aid
NOVIB
One World Action (U.K.)
Partnership Africa Canada
Philippine Development Assistance Programme
Provincial Governments of Luanda and Huambo (Angola)
Red Cross (Burkina Faso & Mali)
Save the Children U.K.
Selseleh Integrated Development Programme (Iran)
SOS Sahel
Swedish International Development Authority
Swiss Development Co-operation
Mary Tidlund Charitable Foundation (Canada)
Trócaire (Ireland)
UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN Centre for Human Settlements
UN Development Programme
UN Capital Development Fund
UNICEF
UN Sustainable Development Network
US Agency for International Development
United Steelworkers Humanity Fund (Canada)
University of Guelph
World Bank
World University Service Canada
Worldwide Fund for Nature.

Country Experience

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Canada, Comoros, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kosovo, Laos, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine (Occupied Territories), Philippines, Sao Tome, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam