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It aims to facilitate life-long knowledge exchange and also to create viable dialogue between development practitioners and scholars.

The Scaling-Up Program currently works in cooperation with the partnership universities to carry out the following activities:

• Capturing knowledge
  • To capture new knowledge and insights developed by scholars, the partnership universities are requested to submit their best research papers written by their scholars for the program years of 2004/2005. The World Bank will review the papers and select the ones that meet the identified requirements for high quality to be published.
• Promoting knowledge
  • The scholars whose research papers are selected will be invited to the regional conferences, to share their research work with the professionals including the World Bank staff from Headquarters and the country office, the Japanese government officials, and the program alumni.
  • Workshops and brown bag lunches are organized at the Bank’s HQ, where JJ/WBGSP interns at the World Bank and IMF interact with development professionals.
  • Alumni will be provided with opportunities to register and attend WBI’s short courses and forum, either via electronically through web or in person as appropriate.
• Building an active network
  • Face-to-face interaction at the regional conferences will foster a network among the current scholars, alumni, and beyond. (All scholars, both from the partnership programs and the regular programs are invited.)
  • The Program supports enhancing Discussion Forums and Program Roster, which are already in active operation.

Please send us any questions and/or comments to: spscalingup@worldbank.org