Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
Afstemming
English translation:
information exchange, liaison
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adremco
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Dutch term
Afstemming
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Good old afstemmen. I know there's already an entry for 'afstemmen' in the glossary, but somehow I don't feel it quite fits the bill in this sentence:
- Harmonisatie: afstemming van activiteiten met andere donoren in een ontwikkelingsland.
'coordinating with other donors' doesn't imply the actual matching of activities.
'matching activities' doesn't necessarily mean coordinating with other donors.
'coordinating with other donors in order to match activities' I feel is adding a bit too much of my own interpretation.
Anybody have a quick fix?
- Harmonisatie: afstemming van activiteiten met andere donoren in een ontwikkelingsland.
'coordinating with other donors' doesn't imply the actual matching of activities.
'matching activities' doesn't necessarily mean coordinating with other donors.
'coordinating with other donors in order to match activities' I feel is adding a bit too much of my own interpretation.
Anybody have a quick fix?
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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Chris Hopley
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information exchange, liaison
Afstemming in this context might not be as far-reaching as coordination or matching of activities, but merely an information exchange so that each donor knows what the other donors are doing (potentially helping to avoid duplication and/or treading on toes).
E.g. 'Harmonisation: liaison with other donor organisations on their activities in a developing country.
E.g. 'Harmonisation: liaison with other donor organisations on their activities in a developing country.
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Suzan Hamer
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alignment
Alignment with activities of other donors ...
Doesn't that include "coordination/coordinating" and "matching"?
Doesn't that include "coordination/coordinating" and "matching"?
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Richard Sanders
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Coordinating activities with other donors in a developing country
Without more context, this is fine; only context would allow for a more nuanced choice.
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Depending on context, you might also say:
Coordinating activities in a developing country with other donors.
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Note added at 39 mins (2009-08-14 12:21:57 GMT)
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Depending on context, you might also say:
Coordinating activities in a developing country with other donors.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Francina
: Harmonization entails working to coordinate our financial aid and capacity building activities with that of other donors operating in a developing country. http://digitalmedia.worldbank.org/projectsandops/aideffectiv...
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| agree |
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bring in tune with
or "tune"
afstemmen (ww.)
adjust, fix, tune, tuning (the ~), decline, reject, refuse, disclaim, denounce, disapprove, repudiate, spurn, turn down, object to, outvote, vote down, tune in, adjusting (the ~), synchronization (the ~), equalization (the ~), tune in to (the ~), synchronize
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http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/vertalen.php
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I really don't see any difference in nuance between "afstemmen" and "bring in tune with" - but that may be a matter of the complex of individual experiences embedded in words...? (e.g. read: Experience and the creation of meaning, by Eugene Gendlin).
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Correction: Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning.
afstemmen (ww.)
adjust, fix, tune, tuning (the ~), decline, reject, refuse, disclaim, denounce, disapprove, repudiate, spurn, turn down, object to, outvote, vote down, tune in, adjusting (the ~), synchronization (the ~), equalization (the ~), tune in to (the ~), synchronize
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http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/vertalen.php
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I really don't see any difference in nuance between "afstemmen" and "bring in tune with" - but that may be a matter of the complex of individual experiences embedded in words...? (e.g. read: Experience and the creation of meaning, by Eugene Gendlin).
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Correction: Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning.
Note from asker:
| Sounds good, but to bring in tune with still doesn't imply actual contact, overleg, with other donors... Afstemming does, I think. I'm trying to catch that in a phrase. |
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
writeaway
: too bad there isn't even a sentence in Dutch. It means that a dictionary definition is the only 'quick fix' possible. /that definition is the sentence?
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- Harmonisatie: afstemming van activiteiten met andere donoren in een ontwikkelingsland// that's how I have read it, yes
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harmonisation
Activity harmonisation with other donors in a developing country.
See:
http://www.badc.be/documents/en/policy_documents/plan_harmon...
"Harmonisation: Donors aim to make their actions more harmonised, collectively effective and less burdensome especially on those countries, such as fragile states, that have weak administrative
capacities. This means, for instance, establishing common arrangements at country level for planning, funding and implementing development programmes (§ 42)."
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/41/34428351.pdf
"HARMONISATION
Donors’ actions are more harmonised, transparent and collectively effective"
See:
http://www.badc.be/documents/en/policy_documents/plan_harmon...
"Harmonisation: Donors aim to make their actions more harmonised, collectively effective and less burdensome especially on those countries, such as fragile states, that have weak administrative
capacities. This means, for instance, establishing common arrangements at country level for planning, funding and implementing development programmes (§ 42)."
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/41/34428351.pdf
"HARMONISATION
Donors’ actions are more harmonised, transparent and collectively effective"
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tuning if of activities
just an idea
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of course it's tining in............
Sorry
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of course it's tining in............
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