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Establishing Effective Knowledge Exchange Structures for Africa’s Development
Stakeholders
Steffen JanusMarch 27, 2011
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APDev aims to be:
● A multi-stakeholder forum
● An African-country-led mechanism with an active role for RECs
● An integrated community of practice
● A knowledge base & mutual learning hub
● A network for knowledge, policy & practice links
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APDev consists of two basic inter-related building blocks:
EXPERTISE
Knowledge Repository(online database)
Community of Practitioners working for Africa’s
Development
Reports, Statistics, Case studies, guides,
check lists, etc.
Knowledge sharing and collaboration, in
both virtual and physical spaces.
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Collaboration and Experience Sharing between Africa’s Institutions
● Not a new thing. Has been around for many years
● But often ad-hoc, bilaterally or focused on specific sectors
Need for more systemic and regular knowledge exchanges amongst Africa’s development stakeholders
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Knowledge Exchange: Mutual learning from Practice on what works and what does not.
● Institutional capacity needs assessment needed
● Both cross-sectoral and sectoral expertise required
Knowledge SupplyDemand for Knowledge
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Knowledge Exchange: Mutual learning from Practice on what works and what does not.
● African stakeholders have a lot of experience to share
● Much of this experience and expertise is directly relevant to other stakeholders on the continent
Knowledge SupplyDemand for Knowledge
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The APDev Knowledge Exchange Initiative
● Systematic Knowledge Exchanges between Practitioners and Policy makers
● Focus both on institutional capacity constraints and thematic issues
● Both virtual and face-to-face dialogues, many facilitated by video conferencing technology
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Who are the stakeholders?
● Very inclusive process: All APDev stakeholders can participate
● Initial focus on RECs as key drivers of regional integration on the continent
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SADCGaborone, Botswana
COMESALusaka, Zambia
EACArusha, Tanzania
IGADDjibouti
ECCASLibreville, Gabon
ECOWASAbuja, Nigeria
CEN-SADTripoli, Libya
UAMRabat, Morocco
NEPADMidrand, SA
ACBFHarare, Zimbabwe
AUC and UNECAAddis Ababa
AfDBTunis, Tunisia
Map of future virtual regional sites for Knowledge Exchanges via video conferencing
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Linking in national-level stakeholders
● Involvement of national governments, civil society, private sector and academia
● Use of Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) to facilitate knowledge exchanges through distance learning technology
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APDev Online Community Platform / Knowledge Repository
F2F VC
APDev Dialogues
Monthly Dialogues addressing institutional capacity constraints
Regular thematic knowledge sharing dialogues
• Regular dialogues addressing institutional capacity constraints
• Thematic KE dialogues
Two parallel Knowledge Exchange Tracks
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Immediate next steps
● First video-conference based knowledge exchange pilot addressing knowledge management as a key institutional capacity constraint reported by RECs (end April)
● Consultation on pilot thematic knowledge exchange track on Trade Facilitation (May 5-6)
● Subsequent knowledge exchanges (1-2/month)
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Linking back to APDev’s objectives
● A multi-stakeholder forum
● An African-country-led mechanism with an active role for RECs
● An integrated community of practice
● A knowledge base & mutual learning hub
● A network for knowledge, policy & practice links
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APDev Knowledge Exchanges are BY you and FOR you
● Invitation to contribute additional thematic tracks
● Invitation to sponsor knowledge exchanges● Invitation to participate in all APDev
knowledge exchange activities, both actively and passively
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Thank you!