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Zusatztext Knowledge management is popular. Aid agencies talk easily of sharing stories, communities of practice and double-loop learning. But are they ready to sacrifice a preoccupation with results and a concern to disseminate 'best-practice' - in favour of real partnership and mutual learning across divergent networks? McGrath and King are sceptical. Their case studies and their thesis challenge all of us involved in the production, sharing, and use of knowledge. Informationen zum Autor Kenneth King and Simon McGrath Klappentext In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse. Through an examination of four agencies -- the World Bank, the British Department for International Development, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency -- the book explores what this new approach to aid means in both theory and practice. It concludes that too much emphasis has been on developing capacity within agencies rather than addressing the expressed needs of Southern 'partners'. It also questions whether knowledge-based aid leads to greater agency certainty about what constitutes good development. Vorwort In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be Zusammenfassung In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Researching Knowledge-Based Aid 2. The New Aid Agenda 3. Knowledge for Development 4. The World Bank or the Knowledge Bank? 5. From Information Management to Knowledge Sharing: DFID's Unfinished Revolution 6. Knowledge, Learning and Capacity in the Swedish Approach to Development Cooperation 7. Experience, Experts and Knowledge in Japanese Aid Policy and Practice 8. Conclusions and Implications for Knowledge, Aid and Development ...
