Community Knowledge Exchange

Capitalising on Local Knowledge - A toolkit for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of community-to-community knowledge and learning exchanges

by Noel Oettle & Bettina Koelle, August 2003

Toolkit 1: Methodological Overview & Case Studies    |   Toolkit 2: Guidelines for Implementation

Toolkit 1: Methodological Overview & Case Studies

Introduction

• About this book
• Community Processes
• Looking for new alternatives
• Understanding people's needs
• What is a community?
• Participation, ownership and outcomes
• Indigenous knowledge and local resources

Methodology

• Approach
• Process Design
• Strengths & limitations of the methodology

C2C Case studies

• Overview Case studies
• Case study A: Capacity building and information sharing among rural communities in natural resource management
• Case study B: Rooibos Tea and community based tourism knowledge exchange
• Case C: Communities of practice of traditional healers, care givers and people living with HIV/ AIDS in Tanzania
• Case study D: Mbongolwane knowledge exchange with Lake Chilwa communities, Malawi

Selecting and appraising C2C projects

• Monitoring and evaluation as a learning process
• Monitoring for self-correction
• Monitoring the impacts
• Identifying indicators
• Evaluating the process
• Evaluating the impacts

Following up: the long road

Mainstreaming community exchanges

Toolkit 2:

Introduction

• About this book
• Important concepts in development

Process Design

• Step 1: Shared vision for development
• Step 2: Developing the exchange concept
• Step 3: Preparatory processes
• Step 4: Knowledge exchange visit
• Step 5: Feedback & planning
• Step 6: The way ahead

Exercises

• Introductory exercises
• Process exercises
• Energizers
• Closure

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Monitoring and evaluation as a learning process
• Monitoring for self-correction
• Monitoring the impacts
• Identifying indicators
• Evaluating the process
• Evaluating the impacts

Taking ideas further