Process Competences
For successful project interventions and partner support, appropriate processes are at least as important as thematic or technical expertise. Intercooperation therefore prioritizes process competences, methodological expertise and cross-cutting themes in the areas below:
•	Rural development and livelihoods
•	Capacity to analyse systems and to identify critical areas for intervention (e.g. value chains or farming systems)
•	Linking local experiences to global issues: from the micro-level (households, enterprises, community-groups) to the meso-level (institutions) and the macro-level (policies)
•	Gender-balanced development
•	Poverty reduction focus, including monitoring tools
•	Participatory methods in planning, monitoring, programme management and technology development
•	Human resources and institutional development
•	Knowledge management, combining indigenous knowledge with innovation
Intercooperation offers specialist support in all these themes and maintains internal Communities of Practice (CoPs) in a number of fields which enable its professionals to exchange experience and learn from others around the globe.