Exchange visit

An important component of the Captured Programme has been to encourage
mutual learning, through a programme of exchange visit activity.
Under this programme Mr.Bertus Haverkort advisor of SWOPA,
the Sirigu Women’s Organisation for Pottery and Art in Ghana and
member of the board of the Aquarius Alliance. He is involved in the
programme for Capacity and Theory building for Universities and
Research centers in Endogenous Development (CAPTURED) and is visiting
lecturer at the University of Developing Studies in Ghana and the
Universidad Mayor de San Simon in Bolivia, Netherlands, visited India,
between 23rd November to 19th December to promote the programme of
Endogenous Development (ED) by way of active interaction with the
Research scholars including the Ph.D students at FRLHT and by undertaking
field trips to project locations where collaborative ED programmes are in
progress. During his stay at FRLHT Mr.Bertus also delivered a series of lectures
to the Research Staff at FRLHT highlighting the need to strengthen the
indigenous and time tested traditions born out of the community’s own
cultural wisdom, supplemented if desirable, by other equally indigenous
local traditions in practice elsewhere. In this process a multicultural
worldview spanning the entire spectrum of endogenous development across
different geographic regions, could come into being, thus giving way to
recognition and legitimization of these systems in a global context.
It was also proposed by Mr.Bertus to put in the experiences of the
Captured Programme. Collectively in the form of a reference book
under the title “Learning together” which was well received.