This Perspectives paper provides key insights on valuing and sharing local knowledge and capacities in development co-operation. It explores the adaptations necessary for valuing, integrating and sharing local knowledge, expertise and capacities. It underscores the importance of policy commitments and practices that embrace and create space for diverse knowledge and support the co-production of knowledge. The paper examines the emerging practice of developing locally led knowledge sharing that is tailored to local contexts and supports system-wide capacities. Finally, it highlights how DAC members are supporting locally led approaches to capacity sharing, including peer-to-peer exchange, whilst founding capacity sharing on equitable and long-term partnerships.
This discussion paper aims to facilitate reflection as part of a Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer learning exercise on locally led development. It serves as a basis for informal discussions with development stakeholders. It will help shape the peer learning work and feed into the final products of the exercise.
This Perspectives note provides key lessons for risk management in locally led and owned development co-operation. This note examines necessary reforms to risk management from three perspectives. The first focuses on organisational systems for risk management to ensure they enable rather than impede partnering with local actors. The second perspective explores adjustments to due diligence and risk management in partnerships. The third deals with creating an enabling environment by sensitising domestic oversight bodies.
This Perspectives paper provides insights for measuring progress towards locally led development co-operation. It proposes a tentative four-layered approach for a shared measurement framework that practitioners can adopt and adapt when considering ways of measuring their progress towards locally led development co-operation.
