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Ending poverty in China: The role of knowledge exchange in poverty reduction

World Bank by Gladys H. Morales, October 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Since its launch in May 2016, the portal has reached millions of readers and has formed strategic partnerships with think tanks in the region and with other international organizations working towards the achievement of the sustainable development goals such as Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). However, effective knowledge delivery remains a challenge.

Concerted, organized and well-structured strategies is needed among the portal’s founders, donors and partners. Language is an obvious barrier in a region with over a dozen official languages and where key analytical work is mostly published only in each country’s official language.

In the case of China, the World Bank has been offering support to IPRCC to overcome this barrier by supporting relevant websites with English content to make knowledge available internationally. Similar efforts need to be made in other countries in the region so that at least the institutions that are part of the GPIG network can share knowledge and engage in dialogue that can lead to problem-solve together through constant communication and cooperation.

For this to happen, the international community needs to continue to work on a two-track strategy. First, it needs to continue to support the establishment and strengthening of regional and international partnerships. Second, to offer technical and financial assistance to build capacity at the institutional level so that knowledge management experts are trained and sustained technically and financially so that they can contribute effectively to the exchange.

The more inclusive the exchange process is, the higher the quality of knowledge will be. The World Bank, ADB, UNDP and FAO have all noted that human development is based on the acquisition, dissemination and use of knowledge. Hence, the achievement of poverty eradication can certainly benefit from access to accurate, up-to-date and relevant information that takes advantage of ICTs. ICTs can make such information available to an audience that is as broad as possible and that facilitates the participation of multi-stakeholders, in particular people living in poverty.

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