Intro Knowledge Programme

In 2007 Hivos started to develop a knowledge programme to address some of the complex challenges it faces: how to understand and innovate support for civil society building, how to promote pluralism in times of growing intolerance? The development sector needs new knowledge and, more specifically, appropriate knowledge to tackle specific knowledge gaps. Ad hoc financing of knowledge creation is not enough, so Hivos together with its academic partners, is integrating knowledge on issues imper...

Background & Objectives

Background Knowledge development is not new to Hivos. Over the years, it has funded small-scale knowledge-related projects and supported Southern research initiatives. However, it became increasingly clear that this knowledge did not directly address the many complex challenges Hivos and its partners are faced with. The knowledge the development sector - and in particular civil society actors - requires is often unavailable, inaccessible or inappropriate. A new approach is needed....

Methodology

Knowledge Integration The methodology used is knowledge integration. By integrating various forms of (new) knowledge - academic knowledge, practitioner knowledge, educational and cultural expressions of knowledge - new insights can be created and strategies formulated that contribute to the development of new policies and practices for the development sector. This is not a linear process of knowledge production, but a rather muddled continuum of integrated interactions.

Colophon

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