How, with whom and in what organizational context can we ensure that feasible country or region strategies are generated? How do we connect this to global research? In other words, what knowledge infrastructure is required? Following is a summary of questions and conclusions:

• Specialize in knowledge in specific areas, such as water, agriculture, the constitutional state and civil society. However, due to the danger of a supply-driven bias, it is better focus on more global areas.
• Focus on a (North-South) ‘co-production’ of knowledge and on a knowledge infrastructure which has to be ‘disciplinarily diverse and mixed’ and open to ‘dissonant voices and different development paradigms’.
• Enhance the legitimacy of country or region strategies by opening up diagnostic processes; make them public and transparent; include civil societies, migrant diasporas, business communities, NGOs – locally and internationally.
• Set up a knowledge development institute or global issues centre, either in a traditional way (a number of experts doing research) or by ‘brokering’ existing and new knowledge and adopting a network approach.
• Do not separate country strategies from global research: connect the local to the global.
• Collect existing models for strategic (country, regional and global) analysis and determine where the gaps are.