ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT: The South needs the capacity to choose its development path, and this is why knowledge and capacity building are so important. The example of Mozambique illustrates why assistance is needed from the North in order to achieve this. Alternating between droughts and floods, with an economy highly dependent on agriculture and lacking capacity to manage and develop its water infrastructure, Mozambique needs intelligent and sustainable water management as the key to its development. This is an education challenge at all levels in the country. By creating ‘Networks of Excellence’ with partner institutions in knowledge management, knowledge is not only created, organised and stored, but also transferred, utilised and re-created. Northern countries like the Netherlands, which have been strong partners, now need to root their research activities in partner Southern institutions, so that there is a true progression from research about, to research with, to research by, the South.