Actor Atlas

In your country, what is this sector's contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets?

Participate in Voluntary Stakeholder Reporting in accordance with your role in the Social architecture:

pico: Aid consultant, Citizen of target group, Taxpayer of donor country
micro: Implementing agency
meso: International Co-operative Alliance
macro: Recipient government, WTO, UN ECOSOC

In a project context (ref. Collaborative Planning Methodology) also: Business Change Manager, Initiative Manager, Senior Responsible Owner, Initiative Support Office; Project Team

Initiatives

See Initiative management (a Wikiworx page) for some criteria that had better be met in lean and agile cross-initiative communications as various (autonomous) social actors launch initiatives.

• M - Professional, scientific and technical activities

See the section on Monitoring and Evaluation.

Meso

• In countries with relatively high levels of administrative capacities and transparent and participatory institutions: Introduce a competition-oriented procedure to strengthen partner-country “ownership” and stimulate customer-oriented competition between suppliers of development services: instead of offering partner countries certain technical services and specifically project-tied financial aid, recipient countries could be provided with “vouchers” they could use to purchase development services in an international market made up of donor agencies (Faust & Messner, 2007).
• In countries with weak administrative capacities and participatory institutions: use long-term-oriented capacity-building strategies and cope with the problem of donor fragmentation (Faust & Messner, 2007).
• Create a global market for development services with comparable standards in tenders and evaluation, a high level of transparency, and truly independent evaluation.

Macro

• Strengthen (strategic) coordination & monitoring, and achieve demand-driven competition (for operational project activities) (Faust & Messner, 2007).
• Truly independent, transparent, and comparable evaluation methods will enable the management capacities of recipient governments for instance as regards knowledge concerning both effective and less successful DC interventions (Faust & Messner, 2007).
• Achieve a reduction in the number of development cooperation actors involved in the strategic coordination and shaping of country portfolios.
• Regulate actors in the operational field through the market mechanism.
• Differentiation by country.

• M - Professional, scientific and technical activities

Tag cloud for economic activities

Section M - Professional, scientific and technical activities includes these classes:

• #isic6910 - Legal activities
• #isic6920 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
• #isic7010 - Activities of head offices
• #isic7020 - Management consultancy activities
• #isic7110 - Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy
• #isic7120 - Technical testing and analysis
• #isic7210 - Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering
• #isic7220 - Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
• #isic7310 - Advertising
• #isic7320 - Market research and public opinion polling
• #isic7410 - Specialized design activities
• #isic7420 - Photographic activities
• #isic7490 - Other professional, scientific and technical activities n.e.c.
• #isic7500 - Veterinary activities

A general description of the sector's scope is available from M.

A sector map includes these components (select the tab for the relevant content):

• Roles: actors listed in each of the Country Actor Maps may fill roles in Professional, scientific and technical activities. These roles in the Social Architecture are at levels macro, meso, micro, pico.
• Resources: resources that support actors in performing their roles, as part of operations, Monitoring & Evaluation or Change. These may include best practices, success stories, guidelines, databases, forums,…
• Initiatives: initiatives that actors should be aware of before launching new intitiatives in the sector (under construction).
• Monitoring & Evaluation: links to publications or data that may be relevant to the monitoring or the evaluation of the sector's qualities (performance, inclusiveness, sustainability, fairness, …).
• Change: descriptions of visions for change, desirable or achieved improvements in the sector, …

Jörg Faust and Dirk Messner (2007) Organizational Challenges for an Effective Aid Architecture – Traditional Deficits, the Paris Agenda and Beyond (2007)

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