Development cooperation is a knowledge industry

01/12/2008 Development cooperation is a knowledge industry. If I state that or write that down, it always looks if that is something very obvious, something that even the blind can see. Still I arrive from time to time in places where that is severely underestimated, where un-experienced and not-knowledgeable seems to be the internal rule to appoint people at places, more than the opposite. Or places where this statement is acknowledged and subscribed, but where it is assumed that knowledge is automati...

Dutch Development Cooperation.

Inaugural Lecture entitled Gedachten over de Nederlandse Identiteit en de Nederlandse ontwikkelingssamenwerking by Paul Hoebink at Radboud University Nijmegen. He holds a special professorial chair in Development Cooperation at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN) at the Radboud University Nijmegen, instituted by HIVOS and Oxfam Novib. For details see the CIDIN website.