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Stories
are an easy way of addressing the emotions and analytical understanding at the same time, thus promoting awareness. The Guide is designed to create story-telling skills and confidence. First, it
contains instruments and model approaches for recalling and conjuring up mental images of experiences. Second, it suggests ways of structuring stories to make them interesting and intelligible. And
third, it provides ideas about development cooperation contexts in which stories can be an effective communication tool.
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Knowledge lights the path out of poverty
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The ability to generate new knowledge and to combine it with traditional knowledge is decisive for development and competitiveness. Access to knowledge and information and the ability to use it can light the path out of poverty. Having knowledge and information at hand and being able to communicate is fundamental to participation in one’s own development. |
| Knowledge: a crucial process In the SDC’s Strategy 2010, knowledge is one of four crucial processes: „Knowledge is a central precondition for the development of countries and partners in the South and East. The SDC promotes learning processes that rest on knowledge, abilities and attitude and which expand options for action. To do this it integrates local knowledge and develops cooperation with partners based on mutual respect.“ |
The goal – “Knowledge for Development”
The SDC promotes „learning partnerships“ with numerous partner organizations. Together they develop new
approaches for a more efficient use of knowledge and experience and evaluate the subsequent experiences.
The SDC supports the plans of partner organizations to develop their organization and learning. It promotes the development of research and innovation capacities.
The SDC works to ensure that such topics as access to knowledge and information as well as empowerment are on the agenda in international policy dialogues. Included in this is discussion are newer
and more traditional means which improve information exchange and communication (information and communications technologies – ICT)
The new information and communications technologies have changed many facets of our lives fundamentally. In the search for ways and means not to exclude the countries of the South and East from this progress, many new projects, initiatives and partnerships in the sphere of ICT4D have been launched in recent years.
For the SDC, knowledge management means cultivating knowledge and experience in fulfilling its main tasks, integrating new insights into its practices and programs, continually learning in its own right and changing accordingly.
Many developing and transition countries lack the resources and infrastructure required to carry out independent, effective, problem-oriented research which generates the necessary knowledge to solve existing development issues.
Freedom of access to information is listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights under Art. 19 on the right to freedom of expression and opinion. This article refers specifically to the freedom “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”