HO-EIU South South Capacity Building Oxfam Novib's Strategic Partnership(SP) with the Dutch government and more specifically the Theory of Change for Finance for Development (F4D) is operational in many countries.

As part of this SP F4D, the Mutual Capacity Development (MCD) project aimsto enhance mutual capacity development  ensuring quality delivery of the SP F4D project; strengthening skills, knowledge and network contacts collectively and equally between country teams, partners and #The Hague#.

Stakeholders have indicated they want to strengthen their understanding of, amongst other things; Influencing Public Spending Decisions; Political Capture; Gender Respon-sive Budgets; advocacy and campaign strategy development, power and political economy analysis, the use of tools to enable our EIU campaign to have moreimpact. This project will focus on three interrelated content issues; active citizenship; budget advocacy and tax justice. Linking people, organizations and networks at the local, national and global lev-els helps to buildacritical mass of civil society organizations (CSOs) that suc-cessfully change policy agendas on fiscal accountability. The mutuality of the SP F4D capacity development project lies in the network character, by combining roles, locations, expertise and capacities, and by mutually enforcing capacities to better lobby and campaign (Even it Up!). Mutuality is brought into practice as the SP F4D network intervenes at local, national or global level for improved policies, rules and regulations. This calls for strengthening the capacities of partners, country office and The Hague staff, as well as developing the capacities of grassroots movements and local communities, thus enhancing civil society participation in decision-making at all levels. Ongoing mutualcapacity development activities between countries bilaterally, regionally and/or between national, regional and global groups whenever relevant and needed will be facilitated under this project.  This project has three intervention strategies:
1. Directcapacity development - all are equipped with the skills and learn-ing resources on tax justice, budget advocacy, political capture, human economy, advocacy and fundraising, through bringing in new knowledge and expertise from outside in trainings, learning events, workshops and expert meetings. This will also strengthen our connection and collaboration with independent experts, academic and research institutions.
2. Indirect capacity development - new knowledge generated through interaction as a social and mutual learning process: research, SP F4D pro-gram work, EIU campaigning, influencing and MEAL processes
3. A dynamic learning network for Oxfam and partner is set up providing opportunities for peer to peer support. building alliances with others while learning together. Often in learning spaces, people meet informally. It is through this informal connection, new networks and alliances originate.
Potential areas of mutual capacity development include:
# Advocacy (lobby, influencing and campaigning)
#Public engagement and digital campaigning
# Research and extensive content knowledge
# Gender analysis
# Organizationaldevelopment
# Access to networks
# Capacity to provide capacity development