Community Knowledge for Development

In recent years the role of knowledge in development has received renewed attention. People and organisations are trumpeting their knowledge ambitions, some are already talking about a hype. But has development cooperation become that knowledge intensive? I would answer yes and no. Yes, because we have seen a professionalization of international cooperation in which knowledge plays an important role. No, because we still fall short addressing many complex challenges we’re faced with. This partly has to do with the enormous complexity of international cooperation, but is partly due to a lack of substantial investments from the sector in knowledge development. The sector needs fresh ideas, new knowledge, and more specifically, to apply that knowledge to tackle particular issues.

Join us in debating, inspiring, rethinking and critically reflecting on international cooperation in transition.

Reflections Lost in knowledge – yearning for change

Selected items

Column by Alan Fowler: Aided development is a language industry
Aided development is a language industry. This opening sentence draws on the important messages to be found in Paul Hoebink’s column for the previo...

Josine Stremmelaar | 02/03/2009 | 1:23 pm

Column by Shobha Raghuram - Valuing Development Knowledges
Knowledges about development present to the publics unique multidimensional theories and narratives about the struggles of people world over to att...

Josine Stremmelaar | 01/07/2009 | 12:33 pm

Muslims need a secular state
Sudanese thinker Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im has presented his thoughts on Islam, secularism and his own concept of civic reason during the Hivos-Kosm...

Ute Seela | 02/09/2009 | 1:27 pm

Research on ongoing developments is on shifting sands
The fast pace of recent events in Iran illustrates that any research on ongoing developments is on shifting sands. It is extremely difficult to say...

Josine Stremmelaar | 16/11/2009 | 11:46 pm


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