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About ILN-Africa

The Information and Learning Network (ILN) is an initiative of the Capacity Development Group of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It was designed to provide a framework and support infrastructure for the effective exchange of information on local development processes, as well as experience and expertise to facilitate efficient programme implementation and collective learning on the many cross-cutting issues of capacity development and sustainability that are critical for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In Africa, the ILN is intended to enable local communities across sub-Sahara Africa to engage with a broad range of development actors and partners to share knowledge and experience and to work jointly towards economic development. ILN-Africa aims to create an information, learning and knowledge management support platform that ensures that communities will be able to develop locally-inspired strategies and plans drawing on a world of experience, and mobilise resources for their implementation.

The goal of ILN-Africa is to strengthen capacity at the local level towards the attainment of the MDGs through the effective harnessing and leveraging of information and knowledge. To this end three focus areas are addressed:

Development of a knowledge management support infrastructure to facilitate access to information, knowledge, and experience relevant to the attainment of the MDGs;
Development of a decision-support tools and capacity development to enable communities to make effective use of information and knowledge to improve the local economy and facilitate the provision of basic services;
Creation and management of shared spaces for interaction, sharing information, ideas, expertise, and fostering partnerships and synergy, and within which local development interventions involving communities themselves are engendered.

The overarching aim of ILN-Africa is to develop capacity to bring about development at the local-level, involving communities themselves, by assisting the communities to access and utilise valuable information and knowledge relevant to the attainments of the MDGs, and support them to apply new knowledge and skills to develop solutions to their development problems.

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