Because using the IBC Digital Bridge platform during planning and implementation of international technical cooperation (assistance) programs means:
- moving away from supply-driven and costly on-site approaches, and instead,
- reinforcing innovative need-driven technology empowered mobile and systematic approach that create trust and mutual understanding among the technical assistance process participants, and makes technical cooperation (assistance):...
- Need-driven: technical cooperation takes place in response to country-beneficiary’s priorities;
- Owned by beneficiary: with high level of involvement on part of the country-beneficiary, since the initiative comes from them;
- Conducive to pooling technical assistance funds: sponsors pool their funds for selected technical cooperation initiative(s) to improve coordination and encourage country leadership;
- Clear about roles and results expected: technical cooperation beneficiaries and sponsors work together starting submission of Technical Cooperation Initiative to sponsor;
- Supportive to building mutual trust based on information exchange and face-to-face interaction using the platform and shared understanding of what is the foundation of most successful Technical Cooperation pooling exercises (including trust among sponsors, not just between sponsors and countries-beneficiaries);
- Contextually better analyzed: in-depth analysis of national contexts and underlying capacity constraints can be identified early and mitigated on project initiation phase;
- Cost-effective: most consulting meetings and part of trainings are being suggested for delivery online to save on per-diem, travel and printing of materials;
- Technology empowered to achieve greater coordination: platform built-in workflow and private messaging system foster coordination among sponsors and beneficiaries to better integrate technical cooperation process with relevant national development strategies;
- Supportive to small, incremental, and context-sensitive initiatives that stand a better chance of success than comprehensive ones.