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DocumentsSharing Knowledge: Innovations and Remaining ChallengesSummary:In 1996, the World Bank made a commitment to develop a world-class knowledge management system and to improve and expand the sharing of development knowledge with clients and partners. This independent evaluation finds that while the initiative has allowed staff, clients, and partners to have faster and easier access to Bank knowledge, the new knowledge sharing activities have not been tightly linked to the Bank’s core lending and non-lending processes. As a result, their impact on Bank development effectiveness has been limited. Now entering the seventh year of its knowledge initiative, the Bank needs to move deliberately to embed knowledge sharing processes in its core business processes and manage its knowledge services for results. Download:
knowledge_evaluation.pdf
Constructing the knowledge base for knowledge-driven developmentSummary:Article by Robin Mansell which deal more with the "digital divide" and knowledge networks than knowledge management. Download:
mansell.pdf
Focus on Knowledge - Number 7Summary:SDC's Thematic Service Knowledge and Research produces this newsletter "about initiatives, events, processes, achievements, lessons and new questions" related to KM and development. Download:
FOCUS_on_KNOWLEDGE_VII_050317_externe.doc
In the Know: Lessons in Knowledge ManagementSummary:Article by Nick Wright . In Training Technology & Human Resources , March-April, pp14-15. Lessons learned from Tearfund's Learning and Development Manager. Download:Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning: An International Development PerspectiveSummary:An Annotated Bibliography by Ingie Hovland, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK (August 2003). Download:Knowledge Sharing in Development Agencies: Knowledge Fortress or Knowledge Pool?Summary:This paper by Geoff Barnard considers some of the inherent limitations of knowledge management approaches designed to share knowledge within organisations. It highlights the duplication problem across agencies and the tendency to create “knowledge fortresses”, which have the effect of restricting the flow of knowledge into and out of the organisation. An alternative approach of “knowledge pooling” is examined, using as examples four different knowledge sharing initiatives that the Institute of Development Studies has been involved in: BRIDGE, Livelihoods Connect, the DFID Governance Resource Centre, and the DFID Health Systems Resource Centre. It argues that knowledge pooling using external partners as facilitators has some important advantages in terms of flexibility, openness and credibility with users, and that in some situations this may be a more appropriate and effective solution that can complement other forms of knowledge sharing. Download:Knowledge Sharing in Development Agencies: Lessons from Four CasesSummary:This paper outlines the knowledge sharing experiences of four development agencies. Download:
kenkingpaperfinal.doc
Retrospect of Geoff Parcell experiences on the Aids Competency ProgrammeSummary:The following is the text of a retrospect interview with Geoff Parcell facilitated by Ben Ramalingam of the ODI in late 2004. This interview was undertaken as part of Ben’s ongoing work as a KM4Dev Core Group member. The Aids Competency Programme was an innovative collaboration between UNAIDS and UNITA, involving senior BP KM practitioner Geoff Parcell, coauthor of the seminal KM book Learning to Fly. The programme came about because of the growing need to develop human capacities to respond to HIV/AIDS through sharing knowledge and experiences of dealing with HIVAIDS worldwide. Download:
Geoff_Parcell_retrospect.pdf
SDC Thematic Service Knowledge and Research: Focus on Knowledge, number 6Summary:Newsletter following up on SDC’s annual theme “Knowledge and Development” and the Dare to Share Fair in March, “FOCUS on KNOWLEDGE” is about about initiatives, events, processes, achievements, lessons and new questions. Download:
FOCUS_on_KNOWLEDGE_VI9684_extern.doc
KM4dev Contribution to Learning to FlySummary:Contribution on rotating peer assists for the second edition of the Learning to Fly book. Download:
KM4dev_contribution_to_Learning_to_Fly.doc
Call for Papers: “Approaches to Promote Knowledge Sharing in Development Organizations”Summary:The Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community of practice (www.km4dev.org) has recently launched a peer-reviewed e-journal in the field of knowledge sharing for development. The second issue will deal with “Approaches to Promote Knowledge Sharing in International Development Organizations” and will be co-edited by Nathan Russell, Simone Staiger-Rivas, Doug Horton, Lucie Lamoureux, and Allison Hewlitt. Download:
Call4papers_for_K4DEVe-journal-dh-tracked3.doc
Implementing Knowledge Strategies: Lessons from international development agenciesSummary:Study by Ben Ramalingam of ODI. This study synthesises existing research on knowledge and learning in the development sector, and draws out eight key questions for examining related strategies and systems in development agencies. Together, these questions make up a comprehensive Knowledge Strategies Framework, which bears close resemblance to the framework used by the ODI to assess complex processes of change within the development and humanitarian sector. The dimensions of this new Knowledge Strategies Framework are mapped out as Organisational knowledge, Organisational links, Organisational contexts, and External factors. The study then presents the analysis of data collected on current knowledge and learning practices in 13 selected case study organisations . This data was gathered via desk based reviews, interviews, consultations with agency staff and focus groups. The Knowledge Strategies Framework is used to analyse and synthesise these findings, to formulate the recommendations of the study, and to suggest key next steps. Download:Quest for Knowledge in a Think-TankSummary:In Knowledge Management Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 3, November 2004. This article is the first of two submissions on the development of a knowledge management strategy in the UK based “development sector” organization, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). This article outlines the Institute’s knowledge management strategy objectives and the results and challenges that have emerged from the initial knowledge management audit. The article highlights how the knowledge management initiative was positioned as a key focus of the organization’s strategy, the way knowledge audit was used to identify existing organizational knowledge and knowledge gaps, and how the identified obstacles for successful knowledge management were factored into the knowledge management development processes. Download:
ODI_KMMagazine.pdf
Sharing is Caring... Knowledge Sharing Strategy PaperSummary:UNFPA's Knowledge Sharing Strategy (May 2002). Download:
ks_strategy.doc
Implementing Knowledge Management at the Education Sector of the World BankSummary:A case study that examines the change that took place in the organizational culture of one particular sector of the World Bank. Download:
by_decry_or_choice.pdf
Sharing Knowledge for Development at the World BankSummary:This PPT provides an overview of KM activities at the World Bank. Download:
KSatWB_Sept2003[1].ppt
Action Review of Knowledge Management: Report and RecommendationsSummary:As a "historic" document, the Prusack report of 1998 lays out the KM landscape at that time and contains a number of interesting observations and suggestions. Download:CIDA KM StrategySummary:The document sets out the results expected from CIDA's Knowledge Management Initiative during the 3 year plan period (June 2002 to June 2005). The present version sets out activities for 2002-2003 and presents an analysis of risk. Download:
logic_model_&_PMF_plus_covdoc,_fin-e.doc
Knowledge Society, Knowledge Management and ICTSummary:Editorial contribution by Walter Fust, Director of SDC, to a publication edited by the Community Development Library Dhaka /Bangladesh, outlining SDC's KM approach. Download:
SDC-ICT_and_Knowledge_Management_030123495.doc
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