Stand-alone South-South knowledge exchange
The South-South Facility Secretariat has completed the review of the applications submitted within the framework of the third call for stand-alone South-South knowledge exchange proposals late November 2018. We received 52 proposals, representing a total funding request of US$ 1.25 M. A funding envelope of US$ 250K was available for this call and 10 proposals were selected to receive funding. Together, they involve 22 countries (including 12 IDA countries) in five of the six regions in which the World Bank Group is operating:
Title | Primary Global Practice / Global Theme | Regions | Countries Receiving Knowledge | Countries providing knowledge |
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Improving infrastructure through private financing | Infrastructures – PPP | AFR, LAC | Rwanda | Chile |
The challenge of sustaining and scaling-up productive safety nets systems | Social Protection | AFR | Guinea | Rwanda,Ethiopia |
Strengthening the regional CDD network in Africa FCV contexts | Social. Urban, Rural and Resilience(SURR) | AFR | Cameroon,Guinea,Nigeria | Cameroon,Guinea,Nigeria |
Developing early childhood education in Djibouti and Morocco | Education | MENA, AFR | Djibouti,Morocco | Mauritius |
Strengthening the water sector institutional development project in Angola | Water | AFR, LAC | Angola | Colombia |
KE for BRT implementation in Pakistan | Transport | SAR, ECA | Pakistan | Turkey |
KE on multi-sectoral community mobilization for stunting reduction | Health, Nutrition & Population | AFR | Senegal | Malawi |
Increasing capacity to promote rural development for communities around protected areas | Environment & Natural Resources | AFR, LAC | South Africa | Brazil |
Building capacity through peer-learning from India to strengthen female youth entrepreneurship framework | Agriculture | SAR | Bangladesh | India |
Approaches to effective air route development in Madagascar | Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation | AFR | Madagascar | South Africa |
All proposals were evaluated by the South-South Facility Secretariat using the criteria below:
- demand-driven
- clear definition of the development problem or implementation bottleneck that the knowledge exchange is seeking to address
- demonstration that there is a commitment to solve the problem or bottleneck from the knowledge-requesting countries and the participating organizations,
- clear definition of the capacity goal that the receiving countries would like to achieve at the end of the exchange,
- clear demonstration of the results, specifying outputs and intermediate capacity outcomes that are directly linked of the overall capacity development objective(s),
- evidence that the knowledge-providing countries and organizations are well positioned to provide the knowledge and experience for the recipient countries to achieve their development objectives
The implementation of these ten stand-alone knowledge exchanges will start in February 2019.