 This publication is the five-year-milestone of the Indigenous Knowledge for Development Program in the Africa Region of the World Bank. The main goal of the program is to learn from the knowledge embedded in the practices of local communities. A core activity of the program is the publication of the IK Notes—a monthly periodical that appears in print and online in English, French and, occasionally, in Portuguese, Swahili, and Wolof. Presented in this publication are 60 of the IK Notes, in which development practitioners describe how successful indigenous practices enrich the development process.
We learn, for example, how communities have applied their traditional judicial system to reduce or prevent conflict in Ghana, how rural women in India have empowered themselves by developing their own capacity, how youth in Senegal have improved their skills and competitiveness, how cooperating with traditional healers increases the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS projects, and how communities in Uganda combine traditional and modern knowledge to help reduce maternal mortality.
In addition, this publication includes several new thematic articles by leaders, scholars, and development practitioners that synthesize the lessons from the various themes of the IK Notes and discuss the conditions that make the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into development work successful. And, as His Excellency, the President of Tanzania concludes in his introduction to this publication, the most important condition is that decision-makers and development partners must be ready to learn from communities and to help them shape their own development agenda.
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