international cooperation

International cooperation is broad and diverse. This is reflected in our project portfolio. We work with a wide variety of clients: UN-organizations, regional and national fora, thematic and commodity based networks, and companies. We help our clients disseminate their information and exchange knowledge more effectively, face-to-face and web based. We implement user-friendly web-platforms that facilitate access and sharing for organisations like FARA, GlobalHort, SADC, ASEAN, IWLearn, Ypard, Wageningen UR and CTA.

project examples

IW:LEARN3

Co-Capacity developed a knowledge management strategy for the combined UNEP/UNDP GEF supported project IWLEARN:3. This is a learning network for all GEF International Water projects, entailing face-to-face as well as online information and knowledge exchange. The development of this strategy was a process of intensive stakeholder consultations and close collaboration with the project’s management staff.

SADC AIMS

For SADC AIMS (the Agricultural Information Management Systems for SADC), we have built capacity in networks of experts in the region as well as developed the online platform for the exchange of information, which originated in detailed stakeholder needs analysis and consultation.

YPARD

The Young Professionals’ Platform for Agricultural Research for Development (YPARD) is a global platform through which young professionals can express their ideas and realize their full potential towards a dynamic agricultural research for development. Co-Capacity has been involved with YPARD from its start, providing strategic advice, co-writing its knowledge management and communication strategy as well as the development of YPARD’s interactive webplatform.

Co-Fish West Africa

Co-Fish, in collaboration with Co-Capacity, is currently developing an interactive knowledge platform combining existing information networks and systems of partner institutions working in the fisheries sector in west Africa. The Co-Fish website is created in support of the Fisheries Development Advisers meeting of 2008, a meeting which by now is not limited to representatives of the EU anymore. The meeting has become a more open international forum, but still with the focus on international cooperation in support of fisheries development & management in the South.

GPFLR

The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) was initiated with the purpose of catalyzing and reinforcing a network of diverse examples of restoration of forests and degraded lands that deliver benefits to local communities and to nature, and fulfill international commitments on forests. Co-Capacity developed GPFLR’s two websites, and is closely involved with the development of new functionalities for these sites, such as an interactive GIS map.