With regard to development policy, SLE stands for
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orientation towards current concepts and debates in development policy, and their critical examination in its practical application
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partnership and context-related consulting that brings expert knowledge to bear in discourse with the local inhabitants and takes local conditions into account
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a multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates other fields of expertise and views them as complementary and enriching
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the imparting of knowledge dealing with global, national and local contexts indispensable to the designing of professional projects and programmes, independent of prevailing levels of intervention
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a sensitive, selective and adapted employment of development policy tools
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the relevance of communication, management and soft skills, without which expert knowledge and development policy competence often remain ineffective
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an integral, cross-sector, regional and player-related approach to development, not as an alternative to sector-related expertise, but as a perspective required by experts to elicit effect
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a focus on rural development that is based on history and at the same time emphasizes the current relevance of rural development, the environment, resource management and climate change
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the insight into the need to send experts into the professional field who are able to deal with crisis and conflict as a daily occurrence in many partner countries.
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