What we have learned so far: success factors from best practices for GIZ communities

By Teresa Kerber and Florian Lang.

Over the last 25 years, GIZ has gained extensive experience and a deeper understanding of sector networks and communities of practice. These communities are currently going through a time of great challenge and digital transformation, which underpins their ability to manage knowledge flows better and deliver higher added value to business goals. Within GIZ, a community is a group of experts and development practitioners who share knowledge of development themes and challenges and work together on effective, innovative and sustainable solutions based on their sectoral and methodological experience and expertise. In this case study, we analyse the success factors we have so far identified from best practices for communities within or supported by GIZ. In so doing, we want to differentiate between internal communities of practice within GIZ and communities of practice within cooperation systems with partners.