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Social development as knowledge building: research as a sphere of policy influence

✍ Scribed by Eleanor Fisher; Jeremy D. Holland

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
103 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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Abstract

The value of using social development knowledge as a tool for building development policy was promoted by the British bilateral donor in the late 1990s. This article takes the case of a capacity building initiative that sought to build social development knowledge as a resource for policy formulation in ‘southern’ countries. Situating knowledge as a development resource presents difficulties for intervention processes that have historically developed to provide access to economic and social assets. This article highlights some of the problems involved in trying to build social development capacity and questions the suitability of this style of intervention. Inappropriate and short‐term support for knowledge capacity building carries the danger that the traditional separation between the academic and practice spheres will be reinforced, making the process of democratising social knowledge more difficult. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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