IICD works at country and thematic levels to address ICT-enabled development needs.

At the country level, Country Programmes are established in each of our nine focal countries, and serve to help local partners to implement and develop their own projects and ICT policies within key development sectors.

At the Thematic level, we stimulate sustainable development through sharing knowledge and skills. This requires effective communication at all levels. IICD fosters the sharing of knowledge and skills in all activities and projects, within national and regional networks on ICT for development, and between partners.

Within the country and thematic approaches, IICD has identified three strategic priorities. These priorities have been translated into operational approaches and point to IICD’s choice to move towards becoming an expertise organisation.

• Embedding: applying experience to sector and national policies
• Harvesting: translating experience into lessons learned and accountability
• Leveraging: taking all experiences to new programmes through partnerships

Unique aspects of our approach

• Process: We have more than ten years on the ground experience with our methodological approach of local ownership, capacity building, and monitoring & evaluation. We catalyse and advise (in content and process) on embedding ICT as part of sector and national policies;
• Partnerships: We mobilise and implement effective multi-stakeholder partnerships between the public, private and non-profit sectors, on national and international levels. We believe this is the cornerstone of sustainable development;
• Perspective focused on the long term: We build locally-owned sustainable capacity through expertise development and knowledge sharing networks.

Guiding Principles

We apply the following guiding principles to make sure our work is effective and sustainable.

• Capacity development
• Multi-stakeholder involvement
• Partnerships
• Local ownership
  
• Demand-driven involvement
• Learning by doing
• Gender equality