Topics Knowledge Management
'Power, Knowledge and Pluralism' with Robert Chambers (IDS)
On Monday January 23, Robert Chambers, world renowned international development scholar and research associate at IDS, discusses how power, professionalism, funding, methodologies and mindsets, influence and can distort and constrain the creation of knowledge.› read more...
Tags: The Netherlands, Knowledge Management
Date: 23 January : Location: Centraal Museum, Agnietenstraat 3, Utrecht
Tags: The Netherlands, Knowledge Management
Date: 23 January : Location: Centraal Museum, Agnietenstraat 3, Utrecht
Less Pretension, More ambition
In February 2010, the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) published a landmark report on the Dutch development sector. The report, titled 'Less pretention, More ambition' sparked widespread debate in the Netherlands about the future of aid. Now there is an english version of the report too.
Bridging knowledge divides
This study examines how the Development Policy Review Network (DPRN) has contributed to more effective research-policy linkages in the field of Dutch Development Cooperation. The objective of the study comes forth from the difficulty DPRN has experienced in involving policymakers (defined as staff of ministries and embassies) in its activities.
Bridging knowledge divides
This study examines how the Development Policy Review Network (DPRN) has contributed to more effective research-policy linkages in the field of Dutch Development Cooperation. The objective of the study comes forth from the difficulty DPRN has experienced in involving policymakers (defined as staff of ministries and embassies) in its activities.
Workshop Report Moving from Intentions to Action
The Second International Expert Meeting on HIV Prevention for Men who have sex with Men (MSM), Women who have sex with Women (WSW), and Transgenders (TG) brought together 130 activist, community representatives and experts from the areas of policy, research, funding, and implementation of programmes. The format of the Expert Meeting was a mixture of expert presentations on a wide variety of issues concerning sexual minorities, such as decriminalization and destigmatisation; best practices and...Workshop Report Moving from Intentions to Action
The Second International Expert Meeting on HIV Prevention for Men who have sex with Men (MSM), Women who have sex with Women (WSW), and Transgenders (TG) brought together 130 activist, community representatives and experts from the areas of policy, research, funding, and implementation of programmes. The format of the Expert Meeting was a mixture of expert presentations on a wide variety of issues concerning sexual minorities, such as decriminalization and destigmatisation; best practices and...
From Brussels with Love
Cooperation across the different domains of academia, practice and policy can contribute to comprehending the complexity of development and intervening effectively. Academic knowledge, for instance, offers a broader conceptual understanding of the issues at hand. Practitioners’ knowledge and experiences can provide new insights into which concrete initiatives best contribute to or fail in development practice. However, cooperation across domains is also challenging: it is not natural or easy.
Knowledge Management for Development Journal
The Knowledge Management for Development Journal is a peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management for development – for and by development practitioners, researchers and policymakers. The journal recently moved to Routledge and Volume 5 just came out.
Excellence and relevance in development research
The Platform MDG Profs, an initiative of Dutch research and higher education associations, councils, funding organisations and Dutch ministries, in cooperation with Hivos, is looking for examples of research which are demonstrably excellent academically as well as relevant to development cooperation.
Research as intervention
This week, key actors from 3 social movements in Central America have come together in Santiago Atitlan to reflect on the participative research process that they have been engaged in since last year. During the week, members of the civil society building knowledge team are blogging about their impressions. Here, Remko Berkhout, share his impressions of the first workshop day
From love declarations to relationships
The sector needs to become more knowledge intensive and more collaborative if it is to make a difference. In particular, cooperation across the different domains of academia, policy and practice is increasingly acknowledged as crucial to comprehending the complexity of development and intervening effectively. So in recent years many mutual declarations of love have been voiced, but is the knowledge landscape of development really changing?