Using Knowledge Exchange for Capacity Development: What Works in Global Practice?
Knowledge exchange—the sharing of information and experiences for customized learning—helps to lessen the knowledge divide, build consensus and coalitions for reform, and promote the concept of Open Development. In other words, knowledge exchange meets immediate, operational knowledge gaps by fostering the sharing of countries’ experiences.
South-South knowledge exchange encourages cross-country partnerships that can help strengthen local ownership and leadership of development issues by providing just-in-time support on “how-to.” Lessons drawn from the practical experience of others can improve stakeholder buy-in and subsequently create an enabling environment for designing and implementing difficult development initiatives and reforms. As a result, a country’s ability to identify, design, implement, and evaluate development solutions becomes more efficient and effective, leading to an overall improvement in performance.
However, the results of knowledge exchange programs have not been rigorously explored in a systematic manner. How then do we know how effective they are in meeting countries’ needs? And how do we know what works and does not work so we can replicate successes or avoid potential pitfalls?
In this joint study, the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and World Bank Institute (WBI) assess three of their South-South knowledge exchange programs to
analyze their effectiveness as well as gather lessons that can inform global practice. WBI’s Capacity Development and Results Framework (CDRF) provides the conceptual foundation and methodology for facilitating the assessment. The framework supplies logic for understanding how institutions change, as well as sets of institutional and intermediate indicators that can be flexibly applied to measure and analyze capacity development outcomes across sectors and countries.
Document type
- Report
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Geographical focus
- International; Other
Scientifc field / Thematic focus
- Social Sciences
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Entry created by Bostjan Sinkovec on November 12, 2012
Modified on November 20, 2012
