Knowledge Products

This handbook by World Bank offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge-sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its recommendations are grounded on the insights gained from [...]

As the world is struggling with the severe health, economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the developing countries are at greater risk from this global shock. With limited resources and weak capacity to carry out lockdown measures, support their economies and deal with external shocks, developing countries are in a particularly difficult position [...]

The ongoing COVID-19 crisis demands that we Southern countries and cities work together and learn from each other's experiences. As emphasized by Ms Xiaojun Grace Wang, Deputy Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, despite devastating costs, COVID-19 may "spur urban leaders and city partners around the world to reflect, reset and reimagine [...]

As highlighted in the BAPA+40 Outcome Document, the increasing complexity and sophistication, as well as the substantial scale of SSTrC, call for more effective institutional arrangements. To contribute to the discussion on the importance of national ecosystems for SSTrC, the IsDB and the South Centre partnered in 2019 to formulate a paper that offers an [...]

Trade and integration — within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and with the rest of the world — will be critical to lowering poverty, empowering the poor, and igniting economic growth in the post-COVID era, according to the World Bank’s latest regional economic update. This report by World Bank, titled Trading Together: [...]

Over the course of this pandemic period, the world is facing many challenges in addition to the health crisis. This way, social media arose as imperative tools to build up dialogues and shorten distances. Aware of trends, the Brazil Africa Institute strengthened its position as a facilitator of knowledge, holding a series of live debates, [...]

This report by Norec does a cross-section of most external reports commissioned by Norec over the last 20 years to evaluate and refine its work models and approaches. It focuses in particular on the concept of learning organisations. It aims to summarize the success factors needed to develop institutional knowledge through the use of the [...]

This report by Norec discusses the benefits and challenges of international personnel exchange for Government and semi-Government institutions, in particular with respect to individual and institutional learning. It examins the learning outcomes among public and governmental organisations that are taking part in Norec’s professional exchange programme. The study in particular concerned with identifying the specific [...]

“Reciprocity” has become a common buzzword in international development cooperation. Its virtues are often touted with little critical reflection on the depth of the concept or how the principles of reciprocity can truly be implemented in organizational policies and practices. Likewise, many scholars and practitioners have noted a meaningful lack of precision about the fundamental [...]

By June 2020, COVID-19 infected over 10 million people and caused the deaths of over 500,000 worldwide (WHO1 ). Globally, the spread shows no sign of abating. Although daily cases in Europe and Western Pacific are declining, they are increasing in the Americas, South East Asia and Africa. In response, most countries have closed their borders [...]