Documents & Multimedia

Local Pathways to Global Development - Marking Five Years of the World Bank's Indigenous Knowledge for Development Program, 2003 [Available in English (pdf 1.1 MB),  Français (pdf 1.2 MB), and Swahili (pdf, 937 KB)] 

Capacity Enhancement through Knowledge Transfer: A Behavioral Framework for Reflection, Action and Results, 2005 - This paper proposes a framework for reflection and action by Bank staff to better broker and adapt knowledge to help countries and communities enhance their capacity to deliver results. Download complete publication (pdf).

Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge (pdf, 156 KB) - This document highlights the IK Program’s activities and achievements in supporting local and national efforts to mainstream the use of IK in the development process.  

Indigenous Knowledge for Development: Opportunities and Challenges, 2000  (pdf, 286 KB) - This paper, prepared by the IK Program, demonstrates the value added by IK to development in the production as well as social sectors.

Indigenous Knowledge for Development - A Framework for Action: Paper prepared by the World Bank in November 1998 describing the important contribution that indigenous practices can make in development. [Available in Francaise (pdf )]