Prepared for OECD Development Forum Informal Experts’ Workshop on ‘Ownership in Practice’ Paris, September 27-28, 2007’,

Northern domination of the development knowledge industry fundamentally contradicts ‘home-grown solutions and ownership’. Home-grown solutions must mean local generation of knowledge and of policy interventions that are specific to the local environment and acceptance of, and commitment to, responsibility for implementation. Development should be oriented to this model. To this end, concrete proposals are put forward.

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