The TDLC is a center for collaboration among those dedicated to sustainable development and poverty reduction. We welcome all agencies, organizations, and individuals seeking expert help, guidance, and support in the creation of long-term distance learning programs focused on those aims.

What can we offer?

What differentiates us from other videoconferencing operations is that we work with you to plan, develop, and implement effective long-term distance learning programs.

We are able to draw on a world-wide network of subject matter experts, program coordinators, instructional designers, technicians, and creative consultants to build the distance learning capacity of your organization, enhance your program expertise, and get you in front of a global audience with more than 77 distance learning centers and affiliates around the world.

Depending on your needs, the TDLC can:

• offer end-to-end support and coordination of program development
• advise on instructional design and pedagogy
• enlarge audiences through the global reach of the Global Development Learning Network
• introduce you to key development donor agencies, universities, research institutions, and governments through the GDLN
• build the capacity and effectiveness of your agency's videoconferencing abilities
• produce and evaluate pilot programs and trials
• provide limited financial support to videoconferencing for assessing GDLN and implementing a pilot program

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for those who would like their knowledge, expertise, and know-how to have greater reach and to be transferred to those who need them most in a cost-effective manner.

The TDLC seeks partners who:

• intend to contribute to development assistance for sustainable development and poverty reduction
• are looking to develop or adapt their programs to distance learning methods
• are willing to make a significant contribution to developing distance learning content, either financially or by in-kind commitment
• are able to develop action plans with the TDLC during a pilot project period with a view to becoming either long-term partners or supporters of the GDLN

We are looking for partners seeking innovation and impact, those who will allow us to share and enhance their commitment to making a difference.

The global reach of the GDLN

As part of the World Bank's Global Development Learning Center, the TDLC offers you the opportunity to reach audiences in almost any part of the world. The GDLN's satellite and terrestrial networks connect more than 77 distance learning centers and affiliate locations around the world, and almost any external site can connect using industry-standard videoconferencing equipment.

We provide the bandwidth for rich full-frame video and crisp audio. Document cameras, presentation computers, and tv-style chromakey effects integrate your slides, video, documents, or educational materials into high-impact conferences which we professionally mix through our advanced control rooms.

Visit www.gdln.org to learn more about how the GDLN is linking the world through learning.

Partnership Development Process

To help you to launch of a successful and self-sustaining program, we work with you to take a three-stage process:

Step 1: Assessment

In step 1 we provide an opportunity for you to explore, experience, and assess GDLN activities. If necessary we can introduce you and your work to like-minded and assistive partners in a global network of knowledge and resources, or we can begin to identify and recruit short-term program consultants to bolster expertise.

The output of this stage is the Task Brief, a report that assesses your requirements and positions your program within the GDLN's possibilities of knowledge supply and demand. The Task Brief also provides a preliminary sketch of the desired outcomes of the pilot program to be developed in the next step.

Step 2: Pilot Planning

In step 2 we begin to identify program requirements and scope. We work with you to develop a pilot program with a view to evaluating and testing the program concepts and assumptions identified in the first step. During this stage we also determine our respective contributions and levels of support or subsidy to the program.

This blue-print is called the Pilot Program Plan and it acts as a strategy brief to map out a sustainable long-term engagement for knowledge reach, longevity, and impact.

Step 3: Pilot Implementation

In step 3 you deliver a pilot GDLN program with us. During the development stage we can provide coordination and design advice and can coordinate the recruitment of participants or consultants as required. During events themselves you can rely on full technical and facilities support, and at every point we work with you to evaluate and improve program implementation.

The final documentation from this step is the Implementation Report, a 'business plan' for maximizing your program's utilization and impact through the GDLN.

Self-sustaining Programs

The goal of the development process is a long-term partnership based on self-sustaining programs. We seek to create a deep and wide network of partnerships between content providers, distributors, and recipients to expand client access to vital knowledge and resources for poverty reduction and sustainable development. The TDLC aims to position its partners for accelerated knowledge sharing and broader impact over the full range of development issues right throughout East Asia and the Pacific and around the world.