Learning to make policy: development cooperation agencies and knowledge management
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چکیده
Development agencies are in a period of major refocusing. On the one hand, the information and communications technology revolution, globalisation and the rise of knowledge economies lead them to develop new knowledge management systems. On the other, commitments to partnership, greater inter-agency coordination and the emphasis on sectoral and cross-sectoral planning fundamentally reorient their ways of working.
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