Documents & Reports
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Mainstreaming indigenous knowledge (English)
The indigenous knowledge (IK) program has been supporting local and national efforts to mainstream the use of traditional knowledge in the development process since 1998. A number of African countries...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 121526 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Woytek,Reinhard,Prakash,Siddhartha
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Distance learning: connecting development practitioners : Formation a distance : assurer la communication entre les specialistes du developpement (French)
Information communications technologies (ICTs) have helped to reduce geographical boundaries and connect people across different countries, cities and villages. The internet and mobile phone revolution...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35525 Document Date: June 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Distance learning: connecting development practitioners (English)
Information communications technologies (ICTs) have helped to reduce geographical boundaries and connect people across different countries, cities and villages. The internet and mobile phone revolution...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 35525 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Population and family planning: lessons from Malawi (English)
The objective of the Population and Family Planning (FP) Project, a Learning and Innovation Loan (LIL), was to test the feasibility of a comprehensive and district-wide Community Based Distribution (CBD)...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31069 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Population and family planning: lessons from Malawi : Population et planification familiale: lecons du Malawi (French)
The objective of the Population and Family Planning (FP) Project, a Learning and Innovation Loan (LIL), was to test the feasibility of a comprehensive and district-wide Community Based Distribution (CBD)...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31069 Document Date: December 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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The African Virtual University and growth in Africa : a knowledge and learning challenge (English)
The African Virtual University (AVU) has helped reduce the digital divide in Africa and proven that modern communications technology can succeed in Africa. It has raised the profile of the continent positively...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31045 Document Date: February 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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The African Virtual University and growth in Africa : a knowledge and learning challenge : L'Universite Virtuelle Africaine et la Croissance Afrique : un defi au savoir et a l'acquisition des connaissances (French)
The African Virtual University (AVU) has helped reduce the digital divide in Africa and proven that modern communications technology can succeed in Africa. It has raised the profile of the continent positively...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 31045 Document Date: February 1, 2003 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Using indigenous knowledge to raise agricultural productivity - an example from India (English)
The note examines the transfer of knowledge from one generation to the next, and from country to country, through trading ties, and social interactions which has raised knowledge sharing activities within...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 24776 Document Date: June 30, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Uganda : information technology and rural development - the Nakaseke multi-purpose telecenter (English)
While often modern technology tends to bypass local communities in remote regions, recent technological advancements in communications have erased geographical distances, and infra-structural bottlenecks:...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 22133 Document Date: December 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Prakash,Siddhartha
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Bank's World (English)
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: AIDS a challenge to development, by Julius Wamey; AIDS and trade dominate agenda, by Banks World reporter; MNA grows beyond oil, by...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 57012 Document Date: April 1, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dolores, Maria,George-Alleyne,Ramatoulaye,Jackson,Vivian R.,Joti, Noni,Prakash,Siddhartha,Wamey,Julius Mberiley
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Bank's World (English)
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: staff greet millennium with a bang: throngs party around the globe; ethnics code and conflict resolution system launched; people management:...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 57009 Document Date: January 1, 2000 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: George,Morallina Fanwar,Prakash,Siddhartha,Seabolt,Patricia M.,Sopher,Jamil,Wamey,Julius Mberiley