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One key issue that arises when dealing with change processes in any area of social concern is how you can achieve results that are as broad-based as possible. Scaling-up is one way of replicating innovative, tried-and-tested approaches on a wider scale. T
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Cooperation Management for Practitioners Managing Social Change with Capacity WORKS
Editor GIZ GmbH Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit Eschborn, Germany
ISBN 978-3-658-07904-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-07905-5
ISBN 978-3-658-07905-5 (eBook)
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Foreword Successful cooperation is a key challenge of the 21st century. Be it health reform or airport expansion, education system reform or public debt reduction, neighbourhood development or the integration of migrants: in Europe and worldwide, these and similar change processes are now on the agenda more than ever before. Crucial to their success is not just selecting the right political and technical solutions, but also the issue of how to transform them step by step into a new social reality. This means finding the right methodology. Through this book we are now making available the quintessence of our experience in this field, gained in over 30 years of international cooperation by GIZ and its predecessor organisations GTZ, the German Development Service and Capacity Development International, Germany. Through our management model Capacity WORKS we are showing what we believe makes cooperation succeed, so that others can benefit from this expertise. Organisations rarely know just how much they actually know. What is especially valuable, though, is their wealth of experience, the methods of the seasoned practitioner, and an understanding of the principles underlying this know-how. This knowledge is reflected in the practices of the knowledge bearers, and is transmitted orally. Yet it often remains implicit. So to make our expertise available for wider use – both within GIZ and by others – we needed to decode, condense and express it in a way that is easy to understand. This is why we embarked on a shared voyage of discovery – a journey to the factors for succe
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