KNO Donor Project Experience Table.pdf
KNO Donor Project Experience Table.pdf
A table that describes KNO Worldwide project experience in the donor-funded development arena over several decades.
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Globalization of production activities in recent years has strengthened the tendency of firms in related lines of business to locate and operate in close physical proximity to one another. The agglomeration of firms in related industries that form these clusters has provided them with an opportunity to improve their productivity, and thereby their competitiveness. Clustering has thereby provided a way of defining economic development strategies, both in the medium-term for defining ways to establish and expand industries and in the long-term for sustaining economic growth. Support by both private and public sector interests of these clusters has been widespread, and has mainly taken the form of policies to improve the supply-side efficiency of diverse economic units, ranging from developing and industrialized nation states, to cross-national regions and subregions within countries. These cluster-development policies have been distinct from macroeconomic reforms addressing the overall competitiveness of countries through improvements in their exchange rates, fiscal balances, monetary stability, as well as structural adjustments and privatization initiatives. Instead they have tended to focus on microeconomic policies aimed at promoting research and development and fostering innovation, promoting investments from domestic and foreign sources, supporting the creation of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), improving physical infrastructures, enhancing corporate governance, and streamlining trade and investment procedures. Yet despite the diversity of these clusters in terms of the size and number of enterprises involved, and the range of that have been implemented by widely different economic systems governing countries and regions, cluster-development policies have tended to share a number of common elements and characteristics. Moreover, a central tenant of the cluster approach is the notion that policy action can change the collective actions by groups of firms to promote joint development strategies that will eventually create self-sustaining networks that generate high productivity growth. This report examines the range of non-USAID clustering experiences and supporting policies and practices, and assesses their success or failure, as well as identifying issues, obstacles, opportunities and constraints to their development. The focus of the survey is industrial clustering activities by donors and agencies other than that undertaken by USAID. It examines supply-side based competitiveness initiatives in both developing and industrialized countries. In so doing, it evaluates the efforts that have been made to make these countries successful international competitors in particular activities in terms of the various methods, approaches and procedures that have been used in the interventions.
In the last decade, Human Performance Technology (HPT) has become an important source of rigor and application in support of best practices in Capacity Development. HPT shares common principles with OECD best practices. This paper explores HPT’s critical role as the methodology of choice within the future Capacity Development environment. This future will feature leaner donor aid budgets and ever more complicated theoretical frameworks, which may detract practitioners away from shared principles. This paper reaffirms the validity of those principles and recommendations for moving forward.