Capitalising on Local Knowledge

Community knowledge exchange

A toolkit for the preparation, implementation and evaluation of

community-to-community knowledge and learning exchanges

by Noel Oettle and Bettina Koelle

Toolkit I: Methodological Overview & Case studies

Toolkit II: Guidelines for implementation

August 2003

Acknowledgements
It would not have been possible to produce these toolkits without the wonderful people who bravely went forth and took part in the knowledge exchange processes that contributed to the development and testing of this methodology. To those of you who have contributed your experiences, frustrations and learnings, our unending thanks. In particular we would like to thank the staff of Zambia Alliance of Women, the Zambia Energy and Environmental Organisation, the Green Living Movement, Farmer Support Group, the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture and the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture.
None of this would have been possible without the generosity and engagement of the members of the Petauke, Chibombo and Mutendere communities in Zambia, and the Suid Bokkeveld, Mbongolwane and Wupperthal communities in South Africa. To Lubinda and Kallis Tafira, our thanks for making sure that we travelled safely and pleasantly while researching material for this publication in Zambia.
An enormous contribution to the development of this methodology has been made by the Indigenous Knowledge for Development Program of teh World Bank, the Global Mechanism to the UNCCD and members of the RIOD network. We would specifically like to express our appreciation for the inspirational contributions of Rainer Woytek, Cheikh Sourang and Masse Lo.
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the participants in the Eastern and Southern African Regional Workshop held in June 2003 to review and critique these toolkits.