The university dimension of our NGO considerably influences the way we work, the way we design our projects and, more generally, the missions we carry out. Among these, the dissemination of knowledge occupies a very special place. In concrete terms, this means sharing as widely as possible the knowledge that we generate through our projects and the interactions that we encourage between players in the academic world and those in the field, so that it benefits as many people as possible. It's a vital mission, and we want to raise its profile and increase its impact.
What significance can a development project have if it is limited to supporting the people who benefit directly from it, over a given period of time? For these people, of course, this changes everything. But is it enough? At Louvain Coopération, we believe that one of the ways of multiplying the impact of our actions is to disseminate the knowledge that emerges from them.
Lessons learned, ideas, good and bad, successes and failures... as part of our projects, we compile and publish all this information as well as the results of university research linked to our actions. These publications have two aims: firstly, to provide food for thought for our teams and partners so that they can influence our actions and, secondly, to document our learning so that it can be used by other organisations, entrepreneurs, governments and researchers who want to work in the same direction as us and draw inspiration from it.
Like our work themes, these paper and video documents are many and varied. The most recent include ‘The research on migration and its impact on Cambodian children and families’, a study carried out with the IOM (International Organisation for Migration), the University of Hong Kong and PLAN International, and ‘Assessing the impact of approaches and capitalising on learning from the project to support the valorisation of agricultural products and the promotion of crafts in the provinces of Makamba and Rutana (Burundi)’. These documents, as well as all those produced in recent years, are published on our website: www.louvaincooperation.org/fr/capitalisation.