ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the practical and technical issues of designing and managing projects that incorporate an indigenous knowledge component, leaving aside intellectual debates on the meaning of indigenous knowledge, the desirability, even propriety of such approaches to development, and so on. It explores how to achieve an appropriate balance, it is not prescriptive, but provides a range of options from which a project manager can choose the most suitable to meet the demands of any particular project. The chapter assumes a project manager who is convinced of the merit of incorporating indigenous knowledge into a project but is uncertain of how to go about it given project goals and resource limitations, and requires some guide to make informed choices about the techniques and options that are available. Managers of projects with an indigenous knowledge component should employ staff aware of difficulties and methods devised to tackle them.
