All Blog Posts Tagged 'materials' - Knowledge Management for Development2024-03-29T12:13:06Zhttp://www.km4dev.org/profiles/blog/feed?tag=materials&xn_auth=noICT for disaster managementtag:www.km4dev.org,2022-06-23:2672907:BlogPost:2228442022-06-23T08:37:51.000ZSammy Gathuruhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SammyGathuru
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10590002464?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10590002464?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> With the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, as well as the social and economic consequences for all countries, the international community has made improving disaster management a top priority. The international community and country-level National Disaster Management (NDM) authorities have made improving their ways to mitigate, prepare for,…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10590002464?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10590002464?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>With the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, as well as the social and economic consequences for all countries, the international community has made improving disaster management a top priority. The international community and country-level National Disaster Management (NDM) authorities have made improving their ways to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters a top priority as a result of the increasing social and economic devastation caused by disasters around the world. The 4th Industrial Revolution and technological advancements are critical tools for achieving this. Traditional NDM systems, on the other hand, face numerous challenges as they alter the fundamental operational, organizational, and social dynamics of disaster management. There is currently a scarcity of research that looks beyond technology to examine the impact of digital transformation on the full life cycle of disaster management on a national scale.</p>
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<p>Organizations of all kinds have invested in and adopted technology for a long time, primarily to automate tasks and processes. The 4th Industrial Revolution, on the other hand, had an impact that went beyond the digitization of tasks or the digitalization of specific processes. A detailed examination of individual 4th Industrial Revolution technologies is beyond the scope of this research. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Nanotechnology, Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics and Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT) such as self-navigating drones, autonomous vehicles, home robotics, and information-collection and target-attack robotics; Blockchain with its transformation applications in traditional industries such as healthcare, construction, civilian and military airspace.</p>
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<p>Regardless of the specific technologies, the new digital era promises a digital transformation that will unleash unprecedented routes to conducting business, offering products and services, managing organizational relationships, and maximizing value for beneficiaries for organizations of all types (commercial, public, government, and non-profit).</p>
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<p>Whole industries have been redefined and restructured as a result of digital transformation and new digital technologies. The emergence of a new type of entity known as 'born-digital,' which is defined as "a generation of organizations whose operating models and capabilities are based on exploiting internet-era information and digital technologies as a core competency" and redefines value landscapes, is a clear illustration of this.</p>
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<p>It is not enough to simply introduce technology to capitalize on the opportunities and requirements that digital transformation brings through its focus, goals, activities, tools, and challenges. Instead, it's critical to rethink or redefine some of the underlying strategic fundamentals, as well as make changes to key processes and lead a multi-directional organizational structure change. This necessitates the organization taking calculated steps toward embracing a strategic digital endeavor, reexamining the surrounding environments, studying beneficiary targets, instilling cultural change, and introducing or retraining required intellects. Digital transformation, in general, is a technology-driven ongoing adjustment and adaptation process for organizations, industries, and society, in which new digital assets such as ubiquitous and embedded connectivity and computing technologies will redefine value streams and distribution channels. The current study builds on this foundation in order to assist NDM systems in better understanding the implications of digital transformation and establishing their outlook for the rapidly changing future. As a starting point, consider the following review of recent literature on disaster management technology.</p>Food Security Analysistag:www.km4dev.org,2022-06-14:2672907:BlogPost:2228322022-06-14T07:16:38.000ZSammy Gathuruhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SammyGathuru
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10567749083?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10567749083?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> Food security is a basic human right. In fact, having access to a sufficient amount of nutritious food may be considered the most fundamental of all human rights. According to USAID, Food security means having, at all times, both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. A family is food secure…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10567749083?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10567749083?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-left"/></a>Food security is a basic human right. In fact, having access to a sufficient amount of nutritious food may be considered the most fundamental of all human rights. According to USAID, Food security means having, at all times, both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. A family is food secure when its members do not live in hunger or fear of hunger. Food insecurity is often linked to poverty, and it has long-term consequences for families, communities, and countries' ability to thrive and succeed. Long-term malnutrition hampers growth, inhibits cognitive development, and makes people more susceptible to sickness. Due to natural resource limitations and other constraints, the globe will have to become more efficient in meeting this need. Aligning short-term assistance with a long-term development strategy can help countries feed their own people and ensure that they have enough food.</p>
<p><strong>What are the different levels of food security?</strong></p>
<p>The '4 pillars of food security' are four fundamental components that make up the idea of food security.</p>
<p>Availability - Simply put, availability refers to the presence of food in a community. This is inextricably tied to the efficiency with which food is produced. When there is a scarcity of essential resources, such as water for irrigation, or when land used for food production is damaged or degraded, availability can become a problem.</p>
<p>Access - Having enough food in a community is meaningless if people don't have easy access to it. Individuals with true food security have the resources they require to secure a sufficient quantity and quality of nutritious food. A variety of physical, social, and policy-related factors influence food access. Pricing, household closeness to suppliers, and infrastructure all have an impact on our food access.</p>
<p>Utilization - Not all food has the same or sufficient nutritional value. It is critical to have access to high-quality food in order to be food secure. Food must be nutritious and healthy in order to give the energy that people require for their everyday tasks. Individuals must also have the requisite knowledge and skills to correctly 'use' the food that is accessible to them. This includes the tools needed to appropriately select, prepare, and preserve readily available and accessible foods.</p>
<p>Stability - refers to how food access, availability, and consumption have remained generally steady across time. It's critical to strive to keep any threats to this stability to a minimum. Natural disasters, climate change, conflict, and economic reasons such as fluctuating price changes are all threats to food stability.</p>
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<p><strong>What criteria are used to assess food security?</strong></p>
<p>There are five regularly used approaches for determining food security:</p>
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<li>At the national level, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) technique for determining calories available per capita</li>
<li>Income and Expenditure Surveys of Households</li>
<li>a person's dietary habits</li>
<li>anthropometry </li>
<li>measures for measuring food insecurity based on personal experience.</li>
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<p>The goal of an emergency food security assessment (EFSA) is to determine the impact of shock on the food security of affected households and communities. An emergency is defined as a situation that causes widespread human, material, economic, or environmental harm, endangering human lives and livelihoods and exceeding the coping capacities of affected communities and/or government. When living conditions in a region/country change, and it is expected that communities will become vulnerable and/or unable to meet their nutritional needs, a food security assessment may be required. Drought, floods, locust infestation, outbreak of conflict/war, influx of refugees, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic are examples of situations where this can occur prior to or during a sudden hazard or when the situation gradually but consistently becomes alarming.</p>Innovation and Knowledge Management Survey - March 2022tag:www.km4dev.org,2022-05-10:2672907:BlogPost:2217612022-05-10T11:30:00.000ZOwen Wilsonhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/OwenWilson
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Do some knowledge management practices have more impact on innovation in International Organizations (IGOs and NGOs)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This research is for my Masters dissertation to find the answer using Structural Equation Modeling. Previous studies only used general knowledge management processes in commercial contexts. This study will dig deeper, in a UN context.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Do some knowledge management practices have more impact on innovation in International Organizations (IGOs and NGOs)</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This research is for my Masters dissertation to find the answer using Structural Equation Modeling. Previous studies only used general knowledge management processes in commercial contexts. This study will dig deeper, in a UN context.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I work in the UN as a KM advisor to UNICEF, and previously IOM.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your experience and insight is invaluable. Please consider being a participant. The survey is anonymous and takes about 10 minutes to complete. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.ikmsurvey.online/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ikmsurvey.online/</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I hope to get responses from KM and Innovation practitioners across all International Organizations. Please help by forwarding this link if you know someone.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>THANK YOU!</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Owen Wilson</b></span></p>Three initiatives of BNNRC's successfully nominated to the Voting Phase for the UN World Summit on the Information Society Forum Prizes 2022tag:www.km4dev.org,2022-03-15:2672907:BlogPost:2220512022-03-15T11:08:44.000ZAHM Bazlur Rahmanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AHMBazlurRahman95
<p style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud to announce that Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)’s three initiatives are supported by Switzerland under the project of Connecting and Empowering Voices for Just, Inclusive and Peaceful Society for the voting process of UN World Summit on the Information Society Forum Prizes 2022 (WSIS Prizes 2022)</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Out of 1,000 submitted projects, 360 (twenty in each of the eighteen WSIS Action Line Categories)…</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud to announce that Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)’s three initiatives are supported by Switzerland under the project of Connecting and Empowering Voices for Just, Inclusive and Peaceful Society for the voting process of UN World Summit on the Information Society Forum Prizes 2022 (WSIS Prizes 2022)</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Out of 1,000 submitted projects, 360 (twenty in each of the eighteen WSIS Action Line Categories) were nominated for the ongoing online voting phase<span> </span><a href="http://www.wsis.org/prizes">www.wsis.org/prizes</a>. The Winners will be selected among the first five most voted projects and announced during the special WSIS Prizes 2022 Ceremony, which will be held during the final week of the WSIS Forum 2022</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The three initiatives are as follows. </p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Category 4 — AL C4. Capacity building</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Empowering Youth and Youth Women through Digital Literacy</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Category 10 — AL C7. ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Engage Youth and Youth women through social media for the Employment generation and</strong></p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Category 16 — AL C9. Media</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Fighting Against Misinformation, Disinformation and Mal-information through Community Radio in Bangladesh<span> </span></strong>has been nominated for a Voting Phase for the UN World Summit on the Information Society Forum Prizes 2022 (WSIS Prizes 2022)</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">Now Voting is Open. Please register and vote at the earliest following this link.</p>
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<p>An emergency management plan is a strategy devised to lessen the impact of probable occurrences that could jeopardize a company's capacity to function. A plan like this should contain safeguards for workers, as well as, if possible, property and facilities. It should also have provisions for determining the seriousness of an occurrence and taking steps to resolve the issue. Identifying probable emergency situations and proper solutions to each is one of the elements of emergency management…</p>
<p>An emergency management plan is a strategy devised to lessen the impact of probable occurrences that could jeopardize a company's capacity to function. A plan like this should contain safeguards for workers, as well as, if possible, property and facilities. It should also have provisions for determining the seriousness of an occurrence and taking steps to resolve the issue. Identifying probable emergency situations and proper solutions to each is one of the elements of emergency management planning. A business impact study can assist a company in determining the risks posed by certain events. Finally, identify and secure the resources that are required. After an emergency situation has been handled, a company can begin disaster recovery activities to address any damage and/or restore normal business operations.</p>
<p>The fundamental principles of emergency management are based on four phases:</p>
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<li>Mitigation phase - we undertake an annual hazard mitigation risk assessment to identify the dangers that we believe are the most important and on which we should concentrate our efforts in the future year.</li>
<li>Preparedness phase - Our Preparedness initiatives are focused on developing and sustaining our incident command and crisis action teams.</li>
<li>Response phase – The search and rescue phase of an emergency response may begin with search and rescue, but in all situations, the focus will swiftly shift to meeting the afflicted population's basic humanitarian requirements.</li>
<li>Recovery phase - goal is to return the afflicted region to its original state (as it was before the incident) as quickly as possible. Recovery efforts differ from the Response phase in that they focus on challenges and decisions that must be made after immediate needs have been met.</li>
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<p>The management challenges that arise during the response and early recovery phases are likely to vary between organizations because of the differing demands for their tasks and structure to change. Four types of organizations in a crisis situation have been identified:</p>
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<li>Established organizations perform the same tasks as they would under normal conditions.</li>
<li>During a crisis, expanding organizations expand in size and become involved in activities that aren't part of their normal responsibilities.</li>
<li>Extending organizations keep their pre-disaster organizational structure in place while taking on new disaster-related responsibilities.</li>
<li>Emergent organizations are made up of private individuals who come together in the face of current or potential disasters to achieve common goals.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10105736277?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10105736277?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></li>
</ul>DESIGNING AND CONDUCTING SURVEYStag:www.km4dev.org,2022-02-15:2672907:BlogPost:2215022022-02-15T08:12:09.000ZSammy Gathuruhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SammyGathuru
<p>Survey is defined as a study of a geographical area to gather impression, opinions, information to satisfying level by polling a section of population. Surveys are widely used in various researches like academic research, market research, business and much more. Some effective tips to increase effectiveness of your surveys:</p>
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<li>Evaluate your situation:</li>
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<p>You must first determine why you are doing the survey and the desired outcome. In terms of how to perform…</p>
<p>Survey is defined as a study of a geographical area to gather impression, opinions, information to satisfying level by polling a section of population. Surveys are widely used in various researches like academic research, market research, business and much more. Some effective tips to increase effectiveness of your surveys:</p>
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<li>Evaluate your situation:</li>
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<p>You must first determine why you are doing the survey and the desired outcome. In terms of how to perform this research, you must analyze the resources you have. It doesn't matter who your target audience is; just be clear about what you're trying to evaluate: is it a hypothesis, a business proposal, or a service improvement?</p>
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<li>Conduct background research:</li>
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<p>Before you begin your own survey study, you must first conduct background research. This aids in determining what prior researchers have done on a certain issue and the outcomes they obtained, ensuring that you do not replicate their work. You may simply arrive at the questionnaire based on the background study, and the aim of conducting the survey will be evident.</p>
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<li>Keep it simple:</li>
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<p>The majority of responders dislike long, convoluted, and difficult questionnaires. The time aspect is significant; if respondents believe the survey is taking too long, they may drop out, just complete half of it, or start ticking random answers. If the survey is going to be long (especially for academic research and market research), it's best to break it up into sections and distribute them separately.</p>
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<li>Use Scales whenever possible:</li>
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<p>Using scales are important, because at the end it gives answers which can be measured on the basis of both intensity and direction of the opinions. Scale here means close-ended questions like Check-boxes, Grid and List. When doing study research, there is a lot of difference between “Strongly Agree” and “Agree”.</p>
<p>The difference can only be explained by using scales. Using scales helps in analyzing basic analysis to high level analysis.</p>
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<li>Make it balanced and not biased survey:</li>
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<p>Respondent perceptions are reflected in survey results. We must keep this in mind while we analyze and construct the survey. Biased survey questions will jeopardize the survey's goals. Biased questions will lead respondents to reply in a way that is more positive than their true feelings. It is necessary to maintain the survey balanced in order to obtain the genuine attitudes of the respondents. Randomly conducting surveys is a good way to acquire more accurate replies. Also, if survey questions are asked verbally, biasing should not affect the person who is asking the question, as this could lead to erroneous answers and data falsification.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10105735465?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10105735465?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>[Save the Dates] Good Morning Stakeholder Forum Invitation | Leap4fnssa Project February 1 @ 9:00 am - February 15 @ 1:00 pm CETtag:www.km4dev.org,2022-01-13:2672907:BlogPost:2213252022-01-13T11:30:51.000ZNoureddin Driouechhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/NoureddinDriouech
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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>The LEAP4FNSSA Project will host the Good Morning Stakeholder Forum ‘From Model to Practice’ – contributions to the Long-term AU-EU Platform for R&I on food, nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNSSA). The overall aim of the event is to bring funding institutions and stakeholders from the West Africa-EU…</p>
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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>The LEAP4FNSSA Project will host the Good Morning Stakeholder Forum ‘From Model to Practice’ – contributions to the Long-term AU-EU Platform for R&I on food, nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNSSA). The overall aim of the event is to bring funding institutions and stakeholders from the West Africa-EU Alliance (WAEA) and the North Africa-EU Alliance (NAEA) together as a Focus Group.</p>
<p>It will be announced and explained that LEAP4FNSSA is presently launching an FNSSA platform. The potential components will be presented during the Forum. Donors will be invited to participate and discuss how joint funding approaches and platform approaches can be combined to facilitate a collaboration on FNSSA. Other stakeholders from science, business and decision makers are also invited to join this platform process and become active members of a joint AU-EU knowledge mechanism and network.</p>
<p>The event will take place virtually in 5 different mornings<br/> - Good Morning 1 | 1 Feb. 2022 | Alliance Building from Model to Practice<br/> - Good Morning 2 | 3 Feb. 2022 | AU-EU Platform Co-Development<br/> - Good Morning 3 | 8 Feb. 2022 | Linking Research & Practice at Programme Level <br/> - Good Morning 4 | 10 Feb. 2022 | Knowledge Management and Communication Framework <br/> - Good Morning 5 | 15 Feb. 2022 | Future AU-EU Funder’s Collaboration (For Funders Only!!!)</p>
<p>Learn more and register here! <a href="https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/event/agora_good-morning-stakeholder-forum-from-model-to-practice/">https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/event/agora_good-morning-stakeholder-forum-from-model-to-practice/</a></p>
<p>With best regards</p>
<p>On behalf CIHEAM Bari-Italy LEAP4FNSSA team</p>
<p>---<br/> Dr. Noureddin Driouech ( PhD)<br/> Education/Training and Research<br/> Coodrinator of CIHEAM Bari Alumni Network (FTN)<br/> UniClaD project _Erasmus Plus KA2, CIHEAM Bari Coordinator: <a href="http://uniclad.net/">http://uniclad.net/</a></p>
<p>Via Ceglie, 9 - 70010 Valenzano (BA) - Italy<br/> Tel: +39 080 4606203<br/> E-mail: <a href="mailto:driouech@iamb.it">driouech@iamb.it</a> / Website: <a href="http://www.iamb.it">http://www.iamb.it</a></p>
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<p><strong>From Model to Practice… Co-Development of the Long-term AU-EU Platform for R&I on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) with the West Africa-EU Alliance | WAEA, the North Africa-EU Alliance | NAEA and an AU-EU Funders Network for FNSSA.</strong></p>
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<p></p>Scholarship Opportunities 2022 | Online Short Courses Wageningen Centre for Development Innovationtag:www.km4dev.org,2022-01-04:2672907:BlogPost:2060172022-01-04T09:54:06.000ZIrene WCDIhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/IreneStapensea
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Apply before 7 March 2022 </a></span><br></br> Are you a professional and do you want to develop your skills in sustainable and inclusive food systems, to tackle the major challenges our society is facing? Then this is your chance to improve your knowledge during an online postgraduate course from Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), part of Wageningen University & Research in the…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apply before 7 March 2022 </a></span><br/> Are you a professional and do you want to develop your skills in sustainable and inclusive food systems, to tackle the major challenges our society is facing? Then this is your chance to improve your knowledge during an online postgraduate course from Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI), part of Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.</p>
<p>We invite you to apply before 7 March 2022 for one of the following courses open to scholarships:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5" target="_self">https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5</a></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Eligibility Criteria Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP)</strong></span></p>
<p>The Orange Knowledge Programme is managed by Nuffic and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Orange Knowledge Programme is a Dutch global development programme, currently available in several countries. The Orange Knowledge Programme individual scholarships are open to mid-career professionals, who are nationals of - and living and working in - the following countries:</p>
<p>Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Colombia, Congo (DRC), Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen and Zambia. </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Eligibility Criteria MENA Scholarship Programme (MSP)</strong></span></p>
<p>The MENA scholarship Programme (MSP) is managed by Nuffic. The scholarships are awarded in a competitive selection to highly motivated professionals ‘change makers’ who are in a position to introduce the newly-acquired skills and knowledge into their employing organisation. 50% of all scholarships are allocated to female applicants. The MSP is open to professionals who are nationals of - and living and working in - one of the countries listed below: </p>
<p>Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia<br/><br/></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>The Application process</strong></span></p>
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<li>Check available courses open to Orange Knowledge Programme scholarships here: <a href="https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bit.ly/3aUXYf5</a></li>
<li>Register by clicking on the orange registration button on the course page</li>
<li>After registration, you receive an email with the next steps</li>
<li>More information on scholarship possibilities? <a href="https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/online-learning/scholarships.htm">https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/online-learning/scholarships.htm</a></li>
<li>More information on how to apply ? <a href="https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/online-learning/how-to-apply.htm">https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/centre-for-development-innovation/online-learning/how-to-apply.htm</a></li>
</ol>Embracing knowledge management practices requires boldnesstag:www.km4dev.org,2021-09-14:2672907:BlogPost:2194532021-09-14T06:57:20.000ZObinna Richfield Anahhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/ObinnaRichfieldAnah
<p>This morning, I was having a run-through on some knowledge management principles and practices to develop a strategy for the uptake of some development solutions. Suddenly, it dawned on me that some organisations would not be willing to embrace these tools and methodologies. You know what? They sound simple and negligible for some “too serious” minds (in quote).<br></br>Read full article below:…</p>
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<p>This morning, I was having a run-through on some knowledge management principles and practices to develop a strategy for the uptake of some development solutions. Suddenly, it dawned on me that some organisations would not be willing to embrace these tools and methodologies. You know what? They sound simple and negligible for some “too serious” minds (in quote).<br/>Read full article below:</p>
<p><a href="https://anahobinna.medium.com/embracing-knowledge-management-practices-requires-boldness-c7ce39954df9">https://anahobinna.medium.com/embracing-knowledge-management-practices-requires-boldness-c7ce39954df9</a></p>Sharing data supports conservationtag:www.km4dev.org,2021-08-21:2672907:BlogPost:2189872021-08-21T08:56:45.000ZMonica Morrisonhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/MonicaMorrison
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<div class="reader-author-info__container-wrapper"><div class="reader-author-info__container reader-author-info__container--reactions-enable"><div class="display-flex align-items-center justify-space-between flex-wrap"><div class="flex-shrink-zero"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-morrison-knowledge-mobilisation/detail/recent-activity/posts/" id="ember1146" class="ember-view reader-author-info__total-articles link-without-visited-state" name="ember1146"></a>As a librarian by training, and information and knowledge mobilization specialist by adaptation, I have spent much of my working life trying to get people to read documentary evidence and research findings and put them to use. This has included researchers themselves, who are hobbled by a competitive academic system that often prevents access to knowledge, and discourages sharing of hard-won data.</div>
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<p>My study of research carried out under Government of Botswana research permits between 1996 and 2014 found that, while neglect of information infrastructure that preserves and provides access to research knowledge is a real concern, researchers actually were sharing their data and, better still, were collaborating with one another and with government, NGOs, and the private sector to collect and analyze it.</p>
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<p>That's why I'm delighted to see the publication of a paper by more than 40 independent and government wildlife researchers who have shared and combined their data to compile an assessment of Botswana's carnivore populations. Since Botswana is home to strong carnivore populations across the country, this research has the potential to support wise management decisions about the conservation of these animals, their prey, and their habitat. This is significant in a country that -- even in these pandemic times -- attracts well-heeled tourists from around the world to see this charismatic wildlife. Much of the work described in the paper was carried out by researchers who have committed to working long-term in Botswana: another finding from my study was that long-term engagement with Botswana's wildlife stakeholders led to more uptake, as the work was more relevant to local managers, and essential relationships were formed and strengthened.</p>
<p>The paper and my study are free to read from the following links:</p>
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<p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.13386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Collaboration for conservation</a></p>
<p><a href="https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/110015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The uptake of wildlife research in Botswana: a study of productive interactions</a></p>
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</div>Opportunity: Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Specialist, International Solar Alliance, Delhi - deadline 30 August 2021tag:www.km4dev.org,2021-08-18:2672907:BlogPost:2189812021-08-18T12:16:57.000ZNeil Berryhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/NeilBerry
<p>Oxford HR is working with the International Solar Alliance to fill 10 vacant positions, to be based in Gurgaon, Haryana, (Delhi) India. ISA is a coalition of solar-resource-rich countries and was established to address their special energy needs. ISA is an action-oriented, member-driven, collaborative platform for increased deployment of solar energy technologies to enhance energy security and sustainable development, and to improve access to energy in developing member countries. The ISA…</p>
<p>Oxford HR is working with the International Solar Alliance to fill 10 vacant positions, to be based in Gurgaon, Haryana, (Delhi) India. ISA is a coalition of solar-resource-rich countries and was established to address their special energy needs. ISA is an action-oriented, member-driven, collaborative platform for increased deployment of solar energy technologies to enhance energy security and sustainable development, and to improve access to energy in developing member countries. The ISA has 122 sunbelt countries that lie between the two tropics as its prospective member countries and currently boasts a membership of 86 countries globally. One role might be of particular interest to members:</p>
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<p><strong>Knowledge Management & Capacity Development Specialist </strong> </p>
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<p>The ideal candidate will report directly to the Assistant Director-General for Institutional Development and Knowledge Management, and will be responsible for the development of up-to-date solar energy library and repository of materials, data, publications, expertise, etc. Additionally, s/he will develop and implement capacity development programmes at member state and regional levels to ensure maximum knowledge transfer. </p>
<p>Main responsibilities: a) Knowledge Management & Capacity Development, b) Reporting and Publications, c) Advocacy, Networking and Marketing, d) Stakeholder Coordination. </p>
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<p>For more information, please see <a href="https://isa.oxfordhr.co.uk/jobs/knowledge-management-cap-dev-specialist/"><strong>this link</strong></a>. (links to external site) </p>
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<p>I hope many of you will be keen to apply. You can contact me through the link or at:</p>
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<p>with any questions. </p>Accelerating Community Radio Broadcasting through Challenging Timetag:www.km4dev.org,2021-05-31:2672907:BlogPost:2181312021-05-31T16:49:21.000ZAHM Bazlur Rahmanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AHMBazlurRahman95
<p><b>Dear Madam/Sir, </b></p>
<p>Greetings from Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)| <a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.bnnrc.net</a> </p>
<p>BNNRC has been struggling for the last 20 years for opening up and strengthening the community media sector including Community Radio and giving focus on its vital role as voices of the voiceless rural people from 2000. BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council…</p>
<p><b>Dear Madam/Sir, </b></p>
<p>Greetings from Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)| <a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.bnnrc.net</a> </p>
<p>BNNRC has been struggling for the last 20 years for opening up and strengthening the community media sector including Community Radio and giving focus on its vital role as voices of the voiceless rural people from 2000. BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accredited with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016, Champion 2017, 2019, 2020 & 2021. </p>
<p>BNNRC has been mobilizing all community radios for developing and broadcasting awareness building programs on COVID-19: contamination to protect lives and livelihoods since March 1, 2020 to 31 May 2020. During March 1, 2020 to 31 May 2020 BNNRC has been working on COVID -19 covering the following issues: 1. Animate CSOs, Government, health service providers and communities for reinforcing collective action in pre and during COVID-19 2. Response for achieving keeping community people’s daily life normal and livelihood function, 3. Mobilize further cooperation among government, CSOs, local market and communities’ response</p>
<p>In times of crisis, information saves lives. In the response to Covid-19, we see how vital it is to get accurate and trusted messages to people so that they know what they need to do and where they can get help when they need it. Now 18 Community Radios stations in Bangladesh have been broadcasting 165 hours of Coronavirus prevention education with the active participation of community people. There are 1000 community youth and youth women community radio broadcasters broadcast programs for around 10 million listeners and viewers.</p>
<p>We have 18 community radio broadcasters as COVID-19 focal points at 18 community radio stations along with 1000 youth and youth women community broadcasters. We are maintaining 24x7 communication with the upazila and District COVID-19 committee and upazila and district administration. </p>
<p>From 1st June, 2020 BNNRC has developed COVID-19: Adaptation Initiative and Intervention according to Technical Instructions of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on COVID-19 Pandemic to Protect and Control Social and Institutional Contamination that can help to look at the response through an equity lens, focus on people’s enhanced capabilities & follow a coherent multidimensional approach for achieving of the four specific objectives below:</p>
<p><b>1.<span> </span></b><b>Enhance the capabilities of affected communities through an equity lens for adapting/coping/surviving with the new normal situation </b></p>
<p><b>2. Focus on enhanced capabilities of Broadcasters and Stakeholders for exercising new normal and building resilience</b></p>
<p><b>3. Accelerate of ICT applications for benefitting community people in all aspects of life</b></p>
<p><b>4. Effective access to reliable information through ICT and media for countering infodemic and keeping lives & livelihood easy </b></p>
<p><b>5. </b><b>Create the right environment for vaccine confidence to thrive, the COVID-19: Vaccine Education & identify the misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information & facilitate the lives and livelihoods of the people by providing scientific information to counter the spread of common misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information in rural Bangladesh. </b>(From February 2021)</p>
<p>We have the pleasure to send herewith the details about BNNRC COVID-19: Accelerating Community Radio Broadcasting through Challenging Time for your kind perusal. <b>Please find the following link:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Accelerating-Community-Radio-Broadcasting-through-ChallengingTime.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Accelerating-Community-Radio-Broadcasting-through-ChallengingTime.pdf</b><span><br/></span></a></p>
<p>We thank you in advance for your cooperation. We are looking forward to your continuous engagement, support and contribution in COVID-19: Adaptation Priority - Objectives & Broadcast Contents through Community Radio & Community Visual Radio or any other development issues in Bangladesh. </p>
<p>We hope you and your members are staying safe and healthy in the current COVID-19 crisis.</p>
<p>Please stay safe and take care. With Prayers,</p>
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<p><b>AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR </b>| Chief Executive Officer | Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) [Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations]</p>
<p><b>Policy Research Fellow</b>, Shaping the Future of Media, Information & Culture in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution(4th IR)</p>
<p>House: 9/4 Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207| Bangladesh| Phone: <b><a>+8801711881647</a> </b>| <b><a>+88 02 48116262</a> | </b><b><a>+88 02 9101479</a> | </b><b><a>+88 02 48119374</a> </b><a href="https://groups.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">c...@bnnrc.net</a> | <a href="https://groups.google.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bnn...@gmail.com</a> | <a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.bnnrc.net</a></p>COVID-19: Community Broadcasting Initiative recognized as the champion of the World Summit on Information Society Prize in UN Platformtag:www.km4dev.org,2021-05-21:2672907:BlogPost:2178222021-05-21T13:10:24.000ZAHM Bazlur Rahmanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AHMBazlurRahman95
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<p>Community Media development-related ICT initiative of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)<span> </span>has recognized<span> </span>as a Champions in the prestigious UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Prizes 2021 and made Bangladesh proud in the World Platform. The award was distributed through…</p>
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<p>Community Media development-related ICT initiative of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)<span> </span>has recognized<span> </span>as a Champions in the prestigious UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Prizes 2021 and made Bangladesh proud in the World Platform. The award was distributed through an online platform from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 19 May 2021.</p>
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<p><strong>The champion project title is</strong><strong><span> </span></strong>COVID-19: Education through Community Radio in Bangladesh under the UN WSIS category of Category 15: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity, and local content. Brief of the champion project is;<span> </span>BNNRC has been mobilizing all community radio stations for broadcasting awareness-building programs on COVID-19 from March 2020. Major focuses are;</p>
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<p>Enhance the capabilities of affected communities through an equity lens, focus on enhanced capabilities of Broadcasters and Stakeholders for exercising new, Normal, Accelerate of ICT applications for benefitting community people in all aspects of life, and Effective public access to reliable and timely information through ICT and media for countering infodemic</p>
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<p>The initiative was to raise the awareness of the community people living in the rural areas from March in three phases including raising awareness on COVID-19 Pandemic and adapting the affected people to the new normal situation through raising the voices of disadvantaged community through access to Information and Communication Technology and community media to influence local administration and policymakers. In addition, to keep lives and livelihoods normal countering misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information and to protect the health of 1,000 broadcasters working with Community Radio.</p>
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<p>The WSIS Forum represents the world's largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ multi-stakeholder community and is a global multi-stakeholder platform facilitating the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing sustainable development. The platform provides an opportunity for information exchange, knowledge creation, and sharing of best practices while identifying emerging trends and fostering partnerships.</p>
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<p>UN WSIS Prizes honor outstanding projects that leverage the power of information and communication technology (ICT) to accelerate socio-economic development. Besides the highlighted relevance of the project to the respective WSIS Action Line as referenced in the Geneva and Tunis Plan of Action, the selection process was based on the project’s impact on the community and linkages with the Sustainable Development.</p>
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<p>WSIS Prizes has been recognizing remarkable efforts made by entities and organizations from around the globe that focus on accelerating the socio-economic progress of the whole world as a community. Out of 1,270 nominated ICT success stories from around the world, following a comprehensive review by the Expert Group of 360 projects submitted by the WSIS Stakeholders’ community for online voting, WSIS Expert Group has reviewed more than 1.3 million votes and finally selected 90 champion projects from all over the world.</p>
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<p>It would be mentioned that BNNRC first won the WSIS Award in 2016 as the winner and champion of 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2021. BNNRC has been chosen for this award on account of its creative thinking, critical analysis, strong media development leadership, and exceptional innovation of media & community media sector contributing towards voices of the voiceless people at national, regional and international level.</p>
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<p><strong>About BNNRC:</strong></p>
<p>BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly changing media environment in Bangladesh including community radio development giving voices for the voiceless in line with shaping the Future of Media, Information & Entertainment in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) in Bangladesh.<span> </span><a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/">www.bnnrc.net</a><span> </span> </p>
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<p>House: 9/4 Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207| Bangladesh|</p>
<p>Phone: <strong>+8801711881647 </strong>| <strong>+88 02 48116262 | </strong></p>
<p><strong>+88 02 9101479 | </strong><strong>+88 02 48119374</strong></p>
<p><a href="mailto:ceo@bnnrc.net">ceo@bnnrc.net</a> | <a href="mailto:bnnrcbd@gmail.com">bnnrcbd@gmail.com</a> | <a href="http://www.bnnrc.net/">http://www.bnnrc.net</a></p>
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<p></p>Towards a Feminist Knowledge Managementtag:www.km4dev.org,2021-04-22:2672907:BlogPost:2175122021-04-22T15:00:00.000ZSrividya Harishhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SrividyaHarish
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<p>The tag of "Feminist" is the latest Buzz word in my organisation, born out of a restless need to "pin down" the unease we have with the current system and paradigm and trying to "define" the change that we want to see. </p>
<p>So you have "Feminist Leadership" being practiced in the organisation led by 10 principles. <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8817676669?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8817676669?profile=RESIZE_710x" style="padding: 1px;"></img></a></p>
<p>You have feminist MEL…</p>
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<p>The tag of "Feminist" is the latest Buzz word in my organisation, born out of a restless need to "pin down" the unease we have with the current system and paradigm and trying to "define" the change that we want to see. </p>
<p>So you have "Feminist Leadership" being practiced in the organisation led by 10 principles. <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8817676669?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8817676669?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center" style="padding: 1px;"/></a></p>
<p>You have feminist MEL which acknowledges MEL as a political process and understands that MEL activities are not neutral or devoid of context but can themselves either challenge or maintain power relationships; <a href="https://actionaid.org/publications/2020/feminist-research-guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Research</a> which states that Research itself can be activism and of course the use of feminist and intersectional lens in programming.<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/8817676669?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a></p>
<p>This naturally led me to the question - "What does a Feminist Knowledge Management look like?" and the obvious answer was, that it links to the Decolonization of Knowledge.</p>
<p><span>In her critique of post-modern feminism, Philomina E. Okeke argues that {in their} ‘intent {to} defend subjugated voices, dominant voices do not seem conscious of the relations of power that position them as “gatekeepers”. She argues that the end product in knowledge gathering, documentation and sharing is determined by the major actors in the process and not the women themselves. (Okeke 1996) </span></p>
<p>In more operational terms for an organisation, <span>Caroline Marrs and Christine Hughes from Oxfam Canada share <a href="https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2016/07/spread-the-bounty-credit-the-growers-a-feminist-approach-to-knowledge-management/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> their experience in a networked approach to sharing knowledge and say "Unfortunately, we have found that it remains a challenge to get proper recognition for the contributions that field-based practitioners make to knowledge generation. They offer real-time analysis about what works and why, and contrary to other views, <strong>their ideas for research can indeed be “agenda setting</strong>”. The transformative concepts they generate often deserve more than just a listen, they are already driving change. <span class="pull-quote-right">it is clear that there is as much knowledge and innovation sitting with people working closest with the<br/> “peripheral” communities that we work in than anywhere else in the system".</span></span></p>
<p>The experience in other large NGOs may be similar. It is clear that, if you look at the broader picture of Knowledge Management, away from just a technology enabled-process efficiency driven set of practices and look at KM more broadly especially in the development/aid sector, "intersectionality" becomes key. With this background it is important that we need to take a "Feminist lens" to Knowledge Management and see where and how power influences the shaping of narratives and the spheres of influence. </p>
<p>For this blog let me use the <a href="https://www.powercube.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Power cube</a> developed by <span>Power, Participation and Social Change (PPSC) team at IDS. The powercube is a framework for analyzing the <a href="https://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/what-is-the-powercube/levels-of-power">levels</a>, <a href="https://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/what-is-the-powercube/spaces-of-power">spaces</a> and <a href="https://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/what-is-the-powercube/forms">forms</a> of power, and their <a href="https://www.powercube.net/analyse-power/working-across-spaces-levels-and-forms/">interrelationship</a>. </span></p>
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<p>Looking at <strong>Levels</strong> - In Knowledge Management the visible power holders are the "Academia" and the "State". While the Academia exerts its power through shaping narratives and determining which kind of knowledge, expressed by whom and how gets valued as important Vs what gets sidelined; the state by its very nature of using certain information, privileging certain kinds of knowledge over others, for policy and governance decision making, control what kind of knowledge gets produced and shared.</p>
<p>At the same time these visible expressions of Power are influenced by Invisible threads that underpin it. The realm of social norms, culture and socialization. Decolonization is then not just about influencing visible power - opening spaces, new ways of knowledge generation and sharing, new audience and new influencers/decision makers but it is also about empowering people and public education to shift minds and capture mindscape. </p>
<p>Then, there is the level of Hidden power-monsters under the bed with vested agendas (not really but), influencers, lobbyists, ready to capture spaces. When we set about trying to decolonize knowledge, these are the counter influencers-are we aware and do we have a strategy? what gives us - (let us call ourselves the decolonisers for now) the legitimacy and credibility to counter sometimes powerful lobbyists like the BigCorporates, white supremacists, diversityphobes...</p>
<p>Let us come now to the angle of <strong>Places</strong></p>
<p>What is happening locally? what needs to happen? why is not happening and what can be done to encourage it to happen?. for example stories of Asian women is not being told by Asian women then what needs to happen.</p>
<p>What needs to happen Nationally? - national movements, national chapters of km4dev?</p>
<p>What needs to be happen Globally? - we live in an interconnected world (more evident now post COVID when a small virus managed to capture the whole world). Like the virus travelled - world views, influences, mental models, narratives... travel, what happens Globally has an effect locally. So, what needs to happen here- global network like km4dev perchance? </p>
<p><strong>Spaces</strong></p>
<p>What are the closed spaces - the unavailable ones. Academia is now opening up. Can we have partnerships with the truly enlightened to breach closed spaces. Where are the powerless being invited? who is inviting? whom are they inviting?, how do we build truly inclusive spaces. What places have already been claimed? - maybe Social Media? National spaces through democratic processes, countering institutional capture through collectivisation... what more and further how are we the claiming spaces and supporting those who are all set to claim their rightful spaces. </p>
<p>A Decolonising knowledge framework that accounts for "Challenging and Shifting Power inside the field of Knowledge Management" for me makes for a "Feminist Knowledge Management"</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>Energizing pathways for decolonizing knowledge in the Global Southtag:www.km4dev.org,2021-04-19:2672907:BlogPost:2175022021-04-19T10:16:22.000ZCharles Dhewahttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/CharlesDhewa441
<p><span>Working at the intersection of formal and informal knowledge systems in Africa, I spend most of my time trying to identify and energize pathways for decolonizing knowledge in ways that benefit both the Global South and Global North. It is from this vantage point that I have noticed that the Global South has gone through more than a century (since 1923) of coerced adoption of hybrids and chemicals from the Global North. </span></p>
<p><span>The <strong><em>Word Web…</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span>Working at the intersection of formal and informal knowledge systems in Africa, I spend most of my time trying to identify and energize pathways for decolonizing knowledge in ways that benefit both the Global South and Global North. It is from this vantage point that I have noticed that the Global South has gone through more than a century (since 1923) of coerced adoption of hybrids and chemicals from the Global North. </span></p>
<p><span>The <strong><em>Word Web</em></strong> definition for coercion is the act of compelling by force of authority. Using force to cause something to occur. Such pressure can be through physical, moral or intellectual means. Coercion has happened in several forms such as formal education systems, grants, donations, calls for proposals, mass media advertisement, demonstration sites and conferences where the superiority of hybrids and chemical fertilizers from the Global North has received tons of promotion. All this coercion has had the effect of undermining local food systems and knowledge ecosystems.</span></p>
<p><strong>Respectfully accept but throw away</strong></p>
<p><span>The fact that local food systems continue to exist in spite of this centuries old onslaught indicates a strong foundation for decolonizing knowledge. African communities do not openly refuse gifts from strangers. They accept your gift, take it home and set it aside or throw it away to continue with what is valuable them. This is what has happened to most knowledge from outside. Communities have accepted some hybrids and chemicals but as soon as they face contextual challenges they ignore knowledge from outside and go back to what they know works best. That is why most development interventions are still struggling with adoption in spite of pouring billions of dollars into Africa countries. The same has happened to some parts of Asia and Latin America.</span></p>
<p><span>While ordinary people may find it difficult to openly resist coercion from socially powerful people like politicians and development officers, by its very nature, external knowledge is difficult to contextualize in most cases, compared to local knowledge and experiences.</span></p>
<p><strong>What can KM4Devers do?</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><span>Identify avenues for decolonizing knowledge in our respective spheres of work.</span></li>
<li><span>Persuade development agencies and funders to use donor money for promoting genuine knowledge exchange between the Global North and Global South. COVID19 has shown how the Global South has much to offer the world in the form of local knowledge and coping mechanisms. Vaccines may be coming from the Global North but the source of raw materials for those vaccines is the Global South.</span></li>
<li><span>Explore alternative knowledge ownership models and structures. This will enable people in the Global South to benefit from what they know. Knowledge should no longer be confused with the capacity to read or write because even those not able to read and write can contribute valuable experiences and knowledge toward building a better world.</span></li>
<li><span>Encourage more young people into the development sector. Young people bring a futuristic vision to the world much better than old people whose perspectives have reached their limits. Most decision-making roles in the development sector are a preserve of old people who have worked in many developing countries. While such experiences are important, they do not bring a futuristic perspective to development. If young people were given an assignment to evaluate development programs, they would come up with totally different observations and results that would take the world several steps forward.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><strong>Parting shot</strong></p>
<p><span>Organizations and people work in silos because they are trying to achieve things individually. It takes a knowledge broker to bring together silos that may not know that each other exist as well as their level of duplication. There is real power in working together to share examples and scale things up.</span></p>Call for Open consultation Building a Europe Africa Multi-Stakeholder Platform Via LEAP4FNSSA Projecttag:www.km4dev.org,2021-04-13:2672907:BlogPost:2177322021-04-13T16:21:05.000ZNoureddin Driouechhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/NoureddinDriouech
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Subject: Open consultation: “Building Europe-Africa Multi-Stakeholder Platform” Have your say!</strong></span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Why an open consultation? </span></div>
<div>An open consultation is a participative instrument to open the decision-making process to all those willing to get involved. Its main objective is to listen to often unheard voices and make good use of them: it is the first step towards a…</div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Subject: Open consultation: “Building Europe-Africa Multi-Stakeholder Platform” Have your say!</strong></span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Why an open consultation? </span></div>
<div>An open consultation is a participative instrument to open the decision-making process to all those willing to get involved. Its main objective is to listen to often unheard voices and make good use of them: it is the first step towards a participative democracy. Concerning the African countries and the issue related to food, nutrition, and sustainable agriculture, launching an open consultation will gather points of view of different actors: funders, decision-makers, scientific community, farmers, entrepreneurs, consumers, and civil society at large. The proposed open consultation is aimed to collect feedback on possible actions to build a brand-new Europe-Africa multi-stakeholder platform. </div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What is the Platform? </span></div>
<div> To improve the Food and Nutrition Security and the Sustainability of Agriculture (FNSSA) in Europe and in Africa, the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) have established a 10-years FNSSA Roadmap to strengthen their collaboration in Research & Innovation (R&I) in this domain. To this aim, and to catalyze progress along with this roadmap and boost the impact of these R&I collaborations, it is proposed to establish a Europe-Africa multi-stakeholder Platform which will bring together Research and Innovation efforts and investments in the field of Food, Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) as described in the AU-EU High-Level policy Dialogue(HLPD) roadmap on FNSSA<span> </span><a href="https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/agora_the-fnssa-partnership-infographic/.%C2%A0" rel="nofollow">https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/agora_the-fnssa-partnership-infographic/. </a>;</div>
<div>The objective of the proposed open consultation is to collect inputs on the Platform, including </div>
<div> a) services to be offered, </div>
<div> b) sustainability after the end of the project. </div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Why to participate? </strong></span></div>
<div> Starting from your needs, you can highlight specific services that the Platform might offer to your activity. Above all, you can contribute to a bottom-to-top process in building the Platform. The outcomes of the open consultation will be discussed during the 2nd Dissemination event towards decision makers and research and innovation funders (2nDEvent) that will be held virtually, in June 2021. </div>
<div>You will have the occasion to be directly engaged in this event: in fact, a group of selected panelists will analyze all your answers and they will downscale needs, services, and sustainability factors according to the situation in West Africa. </div>
<div>Have your say! Fill in the open consultation here!<span> </span><a href="http://openconsultation.leap4fnssa.eu/index.php/696497" rel="nofollow">http://openconsultation.leap4fnssa.eu/index.php/696497</a><span> </span>Also available in French!</div>
<div><div>Feel free to share and forward this survey among your contacts!</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance for your participation in this important project. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact <strong><a href="mailto:contact%20info@leap4fnssa.eu?subject=R%3A%20LEAP4FNSSA%20Project%20%7C%20Open%20Consultation%3A%20Building%20Europe-Africa%20Multi-Stakeholder%20Platform%20">info@leap4fnssa.eu</a></strong>.</div>
<div><span>Best regards,</span><br/><strong>on behalf LEAP4FNSSA Team</strong><br/><span>Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture.</span><br/><span>Web site: </span><a href="https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/%20https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/agora/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=LEAP4FNSSA_Project__Open_Consultation_Building_EuropeAfrica_MultiStakeholder_Platform_April_2021&utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/ https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/agora/</a></div>
</div>The uptake of wildlife research in northern Botswana: some findingstag:www.km4dev.org,2021-04-12:2672907:BlogPost:2174262021-04-12T09:50:46.000ZMonica Morrisonhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/MonicaMorrison
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<p>After years of part-time study, my PhD work is done: <em>The Uptake of Wildlife Research in Botswana: a Study of Productive Interactions</em> was formally accepted by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/stellenbosch-university/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stellenbosch University</a> in 2021. Sending thanks to the…</p>
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<p>After years of part-time study, my PhD work is done: <em>The Uptake of Wildlife Research in Botswana: a Study of Productive Interactions</em> was formally accepted by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/stellenbosch-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stellenbosch University</a> in 2021. Sending thanks to the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-research-foundation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">South African National Research Foundation</a>, <a href="https://elephantswithoutborders.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Elephants without Borders</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DWNPBW/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Government of Botswana</a>, <a href="https://www.idrc.ca/en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">IDRC</a>, and to the northern Botswana research community of practice for sharing ideas and conversations since 2014. And, of course, to my exceptional supervisor, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelius-boshoff-12b73240/?originalSubdomain=za" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Nelius Boshoff</a> at <a href="http://www0.sun.ac.za/crest/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CREST</a>.</p>
<p>The thesis makes the point that researchers need to engage with potential users at all stages of the research 'pipeline' to build the relevance, awareness, trust and understanding that lead to more uptake and use. I tried to follow this prescription during my own research and can now share the findings in a final step.</p>
<p>The entire thesis is being posted on Stellenbosch University's online repository, <a href="https://scholar.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">SUNScholar</a>, free to read and download by <strong>mid-April 2021</strong>. Since its length somewhat reflects the amount of time I spent on the research, I have prepared several summary resources in more accessible formats that I hope explain the findings more briefly:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ldOfUnn9VSlK8xsQ3-UAcR42wIym9rwF/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Slideshow</a> (5 minute online read)</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JrSx-5evf9exvf6XJJ1_Fr98cRaRgJyI/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PDF version of summary</a> (40 minute read)</li>
<li><a href="https://spark.adobe.com/page/SbEZBnSfHcMNy/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Web page summary</a> (60 minute online read)</li>
</ul>
<p>The work has helped me think about knowledge use and application in new ways, while learning more about how the academic system could be improved to facilitate production of relevant and actionable knowledge.</p>Representing a Knowledge architecturetag:www.km4dev.org,2021-02-04:2672907:BlogPost:2020102021-02-04T11:41:05.000ZCristina Settehttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/CristinaSette
<p>Hello Folks,</p>
<p>Has anyone here worked on designing a knowledge architecture for an organization? <br></br>I am looking for inspiration on how to represent the architecture, with its many elements and dimensions. I believe if I have a visual image that frame the K architecture idea, it will be easier to communicate the idea and have the conversations progressing with my colleagues.</p>
<p>if you have ideas, references to share, I would be most grateful. Happy to chat 1:1 as well.</p>
<p>Many…</p>
<p>Hello Folks,</p>
<p>Has anyone here worked on designing a knowledge architecture for an organization? <br/>I am looking for inspiration on how to represent the architecture, with its many elements and dimensions. I believe if I have a visual image that frame the K architecture idea, it will be easier to communicate the idea and have the conversations progressing with my colleagues.</p>
<p>if you have ideas, references to share, I would be most grateful. Happy to chat 1:1 as well.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
<p>Cris</p>We Can Do Better: Comments at KM4Dev Knowledge Cafe #10 on "Uncomfortable Truths in Development"tag:www.km4dev.org,2021-01-31:2672907:BlogPost:2001042021-01-31T23:52:23.000ZStacey Younghttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/StaceyYoung
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are my remarks from the November 19, 2020 KM4Dev Knowledge Cafe #10 on “Uncomfortable Truths in Development,” with thanks to co-panelists Sarah Cummings, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins and Kishor Pradhan, moderated by Gladys Kemboi.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to say a bit about what we can do differently, and better, specifically as knowledge workers, to address the uncomfortable truths and supremacy models the other panelists have so…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are my remarks from the November 19, 2020 KM4Dev Knowledge Cafe #10 on “Uncomfortable Truths in Development,” with thanks to co-panelists Sarah Cummings, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins and Kishor Pradhan, moderated by Gladys Kemboi.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to say a bit about what we can do differently, and better, specifically as knowledge workers, to address the uncomfortable truths and supremacy models the other panelists have so eloquently critiqued. And in particular, I want to give a couple of examples to illustrate my point that there are alternatives available to us now, today --</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">we don’t have to wait to do better.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As knowledge workers, whether or not we bring awareness and intentionality to this fact, we grapple with power dimensions inherent in norms and hierarchies around</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Types of knowledge and the status of evidence (what “counts” as evidence, what kinds of evidence are valued)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sources of knowledge (whose knowledge is seen as important, how credibility is defined)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engaging knowledge-holders inclusively (whose knowledge is valued in the sense that they get to participate in decisions)</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And just as supremacy can embed in any or all of these -- supremacy can be countered in all of these:</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Types of knowledge that are valued and the status of evidence.</span></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead of embracing a linear continuum in which evidence that is proven using scientific methods is seen as the strongest and best evidence, and experience is seen as weakest or dismissed altogether, we can instead consider all the types of evidence available, what questions each type is useful for answering, and the particular role for each type -- and draw on them accordingly. And as we do so, we can also notice -- and intentionally mitigate -- how the ways that types of knowledge are valued unevenly tend to align with systems of power and privilege. We can ask ourselves, what’s considered “best,” how does that valuation reinforce the dominance of developed country paradigms, and how does that mute perspectives that come from developing communities? </span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sources of knowledge.</span></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This is linked to types of knowledge, and gets at whose knowledge is valued as legitimate, as well as the critically important question: Why don’t we routinely begin with the knowledge, ideas and priorities of developing country communities?</span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engaging knowledge-holders inclusively.</span></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">We have available to us, and should be drawing upon, a synthesized assessment of our efforts from a large number of people on the receiving end of them, in the form of</span> <a href="https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/time-to-listen-hearing-people-on-the-receiving-end-of-international-aid/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(free download at the link). This is the product of the CDA Collaborative’s listening project that engaged 6000 people in 125 organisations in 20 countries. The book argues strongly for cumulative experience as a type of high-quality -- in fact, essential -- knowledge. And it demonstrates an intentional listening methodology that explicitly mitigates the interviewers’ biases to ensure that respondents’ views are clearly understood and respectfully considered. What happens when you use that approach? Lo and behold, a resounding consensus on what’s needed, i.e., to move from an “externally driven aid system” to a “collaborative aid system.” See the table in Chapter 12 for a concise comparison of these two systems, and you’ll see the resonance of so many important debates that have taken place in the aid sector over several decades.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll also see clear, concrete recommendations for how to move from the one to the other -- these include: </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborating with “Local” colleagues as drivers of their own development</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Focusing on reinforcing local capacities and existing strengths </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making decisions collaboratively </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">And fitting money and timing to strategy, and not the other way around.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A second example:</span> <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-end-of-the-cognitive-empire"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, goes beyond welcoming in the knowledge of people in developing communities, to combining it with “Western” frameworks to advance substantive change. In just one example, the author describes how in Ecuador, activists combined Western cultural elements of “constitutional protections” and non-Western cultural elements of “nature as the source of all rights” to enshrine the rights of nature in the Constitution. This enabled activists to secure environmental protections on grounds that were already accepted and embraced locally -- a clear instance of strategically leveraging local frameworks for local benefit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third and finally, Linda Tuhiwai Smith (author of</span> <a href="https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/decolonizing-methodologies/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and Fiona Cram have articulated a set of Kaupapa Maori principles for research and evaluation. These can be summarized as: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build reciprocal, culturally respectful relationships </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be generous with knowledge and ensure it flows both ways </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engage with people on their own terms </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show humility when sharing knowledge </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Respect people’s authoritative knowledge about their own lives </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Look, listen, and then speak -- understand before judging </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be cautious so as not to abuse or ignore insider and outsider status </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be familiar -- get to know communities in which you work</span></li>
</ul>
<p>There are many more (and more specific articulations of) practical approaches that are available to us as we commit to decolonizing aid and countering supremacy in development, working with and through local communities in support of their priorities and in ways that value and foreground their frameworks and knowledge. </p>Shagari Asks UN To Include Knowledge Management In Next Development Goalstag:www.km4dev.org,2020-12-06:2672907:BlogPost:1686102020-12-06T23:26:31.000ZObinna Richfield Anahhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/ObinnaRichfieldAnah
<p><em><strong>As AMCOW Launches Its Knowledge Management Hub Of Hubs</strong></em></p>
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<p>By: Nkem Ekeopara</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Nigeria’s former Minister-in-charge of water resources and sanitation, and the first president of African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Barrister Mulhtari Shehu Shagari, CFR, has called on the United Nations (UN) to include Knowledge Management in their next development goals after 2030.…</p>
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<p><em><strong>As AMCOW Launches Its Knowledge Management Hub Of Hubs</strong></em></p>
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<p>By: Nkem Ekeopara</p>
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<p>Nigeria’s former Minister-in-charge of water resources and sanitation, and the first president of African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) Barrister Mulhtari Shehu Shagari, CFR, has called on the United Nations (UN) to include Knowledge Management in their next development goals after 2030.</p>
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<p>Speaking during the virtual launch of the AMCOW “Knowledge Management” platform described as the hub of hubs, on November 18, 2020, Barrister Shehu Shagari observed that information management and sharing have become so important in our world today. He recalled the day in April 2002, when himself and 40 other Ministers in-charge of water in Africa gathered in Abuja to establish learning, knowledge sharing and coordination platform that gave birth to the present AMCOW. He asserted that their vision was to promote cooperation, security, socio-economic development, and poverty eradication through the management of water resources and the provision of water supply and sanitation services. He expressed happiness that AMCOW is now an intergovernmental organization recognized as the African Union’s Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Water and Sanitation.</p>
<p>According to AMCOW’s Knowledge Management Strategy 2017, the Council recognises that knowledge is at the core of AMCOW’s political leadership, policy direction, and advocacy work. Also, the strategy highlights that Water and sanitation specialists across the continent look to AMCOW’s ministerial authority to develop recognition and understanding of water and sanitation as a priority cross-cutting factor in economic development. Therefore, the strategy includes knowledge platforms that demonstrate its efforts to promote uptake and application of research results on water and sanitation challenges and to facilitate joint learning among water and sanitation researchers, planners, managers, and users.</p>
<p>In addition, the strategy recognises that Africa already has a lot of resources covering several water and sanitation topics. It acknowledges that using the knowledge hub is a vital strategy to pull these resources together and make them accessible to sector players. This would help to facilitate capacity building for improved service delivery. AMCOW agrees that preserving the sector’s legacy for the younger generation is a necessity. It believes that this dynamic system will continue to evolve to accommodate online courses, using local expertise and practices and to support the use, and reuse of the sector’s new knowledge.</p>
<p>To buttress the importance of the hub, the Executive Secretary of AMCOW, Dr. Canisius Kanangire said that the knowledge hub forms part of AMCOW’s services to its Member States. He said that it is timely, considering the new working conditions caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. He also said that they believe that such a virtual hub is an excellent way to facilitate collaboration and accelerate learning. He posited that the knowledge hub of hubs provides tools to help users enter through one door, and have access to many other rooms to find information and knowledge. Users can also gain access through direct hyperlinks to other hubs or online resource centres he averred.</p>
<p>Further, he said that the hub presents a rich opportunity to harness and raise the profile of the sector’s relevant home-grown knowledge, and provide students, researchers, policymakers, and development partners access to reliable data, information, and learning. These resources he went on will help to improve decisions and offer wisdom to achieve related development goals like the African Water Vision 2025, and the Agenda 2063 – “the Africa we want.”</p>
<p>The Centre named after the former Minister as Mukhtari Shehu Shagari Resource Centre comprises a physical library at the AMCOW’s Secretariat and an online knowledge hub. This effort is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and partly by the Water and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). It’s in response to AU’s Heads of States, and Governments Sharm el-Sheikh commitment to build institutional and human resources capacity, enhance information and knowledge management, and strengthen monitoring and evaluation for a sustainable and integrated water resource management. The online platform demonstrates the ability to link and converge other such portals and virtual resource centres into a one-stop centre for accessing water and sanitation information and knowledge.</p>
<p>Taking questions during the Question and Answer Session, the Knowledge Management and Information Sharing Officer, Mr. Obinna Richfield Anah, who coordinated the development of the platform as part of his work to implement AMCOW’s Knowledge Management Strategy developed in 2017, likened the hub to Facebook where all the local, and foreign organizations working in the water, and sanitation sector in Africa will converge to brainstorm and exchange knowledge on issues affecting the sector.</p>
<p>The launch witnessed a total attendance of 109 attendees from AMCOW constituencies, Member States, the African Union, UNESCO, SIDA, WSSCC, Sustainable Sanitation Alliance, African Development Bank (AfDB), African Union Development Agency, Water Centres of Excellence (CoE), Universities and more. It also got an 85 per cent engagement in questions and comments demonstrating a keen interest in Africans to enhance exchange and access to information and knowledge.</p>Committed development workers: you are not alonetag:www.km4dev.org,2020-12-02:2672907:BlogPost:1661692020-12-02T08:42:33.000ZAnn Hendrix-Jenkinshttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AnnHendrixJenkins276
<p>Dear KM4Dev community,</p>
<p></p>
<p>People are asking, after this chaotic time, what can and should change? Well, many who are deeply committed to the potential of international development see new possibilities for a better field. How can we make them real? Here's my statement from my recent participation in the KM4Dev cafe entitled Uncomfortable Truths in Development. </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you for the introduction and event, and the KM4Dev community…</span></p>
<p>Dear KM4Dev community,</p>
<p></p>
<p>People are asking, after this chaotic time, what can and should change? Well, many who are deeply committed to the potential of international development see new possibilities for a better field. How can we make them real? Here's my statement from my recent participation in the KM4Dev cafe entitled Uncomfortable Truths in Development. </p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you for the introduction and event, and the KM4Dev community that has been a wonderful constant in my career.</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have to say, it's not easy to put myself out there like this. I’m speaking today as an individual, representing my own personal views. I’ve had friends reach out to me, worried I am endangering my career. But I have been inspired by people and protesters around the world, and my conscience said go for it. So here I am.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today I am talking about what I call the <em>personal-professional</em> perspective. That is, those who are personally devoted to doing meaningful professional work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I wrote several recent articles critiquing today's development, I was shocked by the 25,000 reads. But what has really hit home is the flood of personal outreach I receive from around the world-heartfelt, plaintive, angry, dispirited, rebellious. The kind of people I am hearing from represents many roles, working at all levels. They deeply care about inequality, climate change, poverty, dehumanization. They believe change is possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m compiling them into a document currently at 50 pages and growing. It reads like a rolling therapy session, tell all, and technical critique of the field all in one. </span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This hit me so hard...I refuse to stand down from endorsing this critique, and it's important others to come out of the woodwork and say it like it is and enough is enough.” </span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The people describe having to do their best work under the radar so as not to attract the attention of insecure bosses and organizations. When they do attach attention, payback for expressing doubt or suggesting alternatives ranges from disinvitations to key meetings to getting laid off when their “position” is coincidentally eliminated. We have a joke that if you haven’t been laid off you haven’t been trying hard enough.</span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The portrayal of the aid sector problems is “brilliant,</span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and all so painfully familiar. I learned the hard way what happens when you argue for organizational integrity instead falling in line with the corporatization of our sector. It didn't go well.”</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those I hear from that represent local “partners” in “recipient” countries are even more outspoken, Kishor among them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I worry that this represents the canary in the coalmine of international development. It reads like a work force ready to either give in or rise up.</span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I'm a bit apprehensive about moving so far away from my global health background, but I just tell myself that I'm not happy now, I don't see a career path that will keep me moving, and I have lost faith in the mission, so maybe a bold move is what I need right now.” </span></i></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I left because I felt like I was propping up a resource-wasting white colonialist juggernaut, and was ashamed.”</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To sum it up in two points:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What’s leaving the canary breathless might be what you’d call the “projectization” of international development </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Their gasping request: shift the balance back from predominantly top-down, outside-imposed, expert-driven, siloed, projectized (phew!) development to development that is co-created with the people whose lives will be affected. </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A source of oxygen might be found in increasing calls for locally driven, systems approaches. </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Various names include: community-led development, collective impact, new power, and movement approaches. Increasing evidence shows they work. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Systems approaches called for adaptation in a dynamic real world. And that calls for space and capacities of workers and partners to speak up and adapt accordingly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I finish with this comment from a senior--and still idealistic--development professional </span></p>
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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If I were young, I would not consider a job in "international development." I would consider a job in sustainable social and human development, because it's a great and worthy vocation. And I would still try to get hired so that I can work in Mauritania or Palestine, because, oh my God! I love these places. If that were not possible, guess I'd have to work in other developing countries, like France or the U.S.“</span></i></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">I'd love to hear from anyone about their personal-professional experience, insights, ideas...</p>
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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Links to the recent articles referenced:</span></em></p>
<h1 class="article-page__title"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/its-time-to-put-an-end-to-supremacy-language-in-international-development/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It’s time to put an end to supremacy language in international development</a></span></h1>
<h1 class="article-page__title"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/whats-killing-us-in-international-ngos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What’s killing us in international NGOs?</a></span></h1>
<h1 id="33ea" class="fj bg fk fl b fm fn fo fp fq fr fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg dh"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://medium.com/making-international-development-work/international-development-was-built-on-supremacy-culture-4e87a76a534b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International development was built on supremacy culture. It’s time for a change.</a></span></h1>
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<p><br/><br/></p>Sham of Equality and Dignity in Developmenttag:www.km4dev.org,2020-11-21:2672907:BlogPost:1599622020-11-21T04:56:45.000ZKishor Pradhanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/KishorPradhan
<p>Script for Knowledge Cafe on "Uncomfortable truth in development", 19 November 2020</p>
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<p><span>Some of the things that I am going to speak about may not comfortably be spoken about usually in development. It is not necessary that you have to agree to what I have to say as we can always agree to disagree. And of course freedom of expression should apply to all. </span></p>
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<p><span>The topic of my narrative is "Sham of Equality and Dignity in Development." This topic as I…</span></p>
<p>Script for Knowledge Cafe on "Uncomfortable truth in development", 19 November 2020</p>
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<p><span>Some of the things that I am going to speak about may not comfortably be spoken about usually in development. It is not necessary that you have to agree to what I have to say as we can always agree to disagree. And of course freedom of expression should apply to all. </span></p>
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<p><span>The topic of my narrative is "Sham of Equality and Dignity in Development." This topic as I have chosen stems from the very basic premise that development is supposed to endeavour to make the world equal and dignified for everybody, whether from global south or north. But due to the truth that development has been theorized and conceptualized historically and pervasively from the global north. Or what my predecessor speaker Ann had called in her write-ups “based on cultural supremacy and capitalism.” Or what we may also understand as western or white culture, the notion of development sham of equality and dignity. The implicit western or white or global north bias of development consequently we see is reflected in the lack of equality and dignity in actual development practices and languages used in development. Especially for the people from the global south.<br/> </span><span><br/></span></p>
<p><span>There are many instances that sham equality and dignity for people from the global south in actual development practices but some of the most important ones are about power relations and decision-making in development. How they are practiced? Who participates? Who decides? Take for example the Sustainable Development Goals or the SDGs, before that the Millenium Development Goals or MDGs and so on. Who theorised, defined and decided these goals for development?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> Definitely not somebody from a remote village in Nepal who does not have a toilet. Or a piped drinking water. But by a coterie of technocrats who have always theorized development in terms of economy rather than humanity. I emphasise theorizing development as development has not been accurate enough, as after almost seven decades of receiving development aid in countries like Nepal, there is no definitive answers to how Nepal can actually develop?</span><span><br/></span></p>
<p><span><br/>Other rampant inequality we find in development practices is in the distribution of the development economy also. Who gets the major share of the development pie? With the so called requirements, provisions and benchmarks, it is an undeniable truth that the so called profit making international development contractors/companies would get the major share of the ought to be non-profit development pie. To reiterate, I know of a project where there were requirements of collaboration of a so called interational and national development contractors. Of the total number of fourteen consultants, only four (28%) were international consultants and the rest of 10 (72%) were national. And as was pre-conditioned and pre-determined by the donor, budget wise, of the total, 71% went to the international contractor and for remunerations of the international consultants, their travel and cost of living etc. And the rest 29% for the national contractor and consultants, though most of the dirty and difficult works were done disparingly by the national consultants. Inequality persisted when the lowest basic daily remuneration of the international consultants were more than five times of the national consultant.</span> <span><br/></span></p>
<p><span><br/>Such inequal theorisations, perceptions, practices and systematic discriminations in development have its implications in the languages used in development. Languages like professional and non-professional staff, international and national staff or consultants, national and international pays and perks, donor and recipient countries, developed and developing countries, first world, second world, third world, experts, beneficiary, further target beneficiary are all condescending and sham of equality and dignity in development. It is unusual for people from so-called development aid recipient countries to be taken as ‘equal’ in development and as agents for change or development — who can define how to develop? Or what needs to be developed? Or how they think development should be. Or for that matter what needs to be changed? Rather than just the one who needs to be developed or benefitted by development. Or being told for decades how to develop.</span></p>
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<p><span>All these sham of equality and dignity of practices and languages in development has consequently resulted alienation of development from, and blatant lack of ownership by, the people who are supposed to be developed. Barring those who are adjacent to and ready to accept and assimilate in the existing status quo in development. For development to be equal and dignified as such we can start by redressing its own systematic nuances and balancing the power relations, ownerships and by being more accountable to the people who are to be developed.</span> <span><br/></span></p>Blog: Coloniality and wilful hermeneutic injusticetag:www.km4dev.org,2020-11-20:2672907:BlogPost:1595822020-11-20T14:30:00.000ZSarahCummingshttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SarahCummings
<p>Script for the Knowledge cafe on 'Uncomfortable truths in global development' </p>
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<p>Thank you, Helen Gillman, for your kind words. It is a great pleasure for me to be part of this fishbowl as a canary - as described by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins on ‘uncomfortable truths in global development’. I think it is really important that KM4Dev is a space where we can talk about these issues – to quote Kishor Pradhan – with respect and dignity.</p>
<p><br></br> The #BLM movement has resonated with…</p>
<p>Script for the Knowledge cafe on 'Uncomfortable truths in global development' </p>
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<p>Thank you, Helen Gillman, for your kind words. It is a great pleasure for me to be part of this fishbowl as a canary - as described by Ann Hendrix-Jenkins on ‘uncomfortable truths in global development’. I think it is really important that KM4Dev is a space where we can talk about these issues – to quote Kishor Pradhan – with respect and dignity.</p>
<p><br/> The #BLM movement has resonated with many of us and there are a growing number of spaces – or niches, to talk in terms of systems – where this type of discussion is taking place:</p>
<p><br/> IKM Emergent <a href="https://www.emergentworks.net/">https://www.emergentworks.net/</a> (Mike Powell)</p>
<p><br/> Decolonising HE <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DECOLONIALHE">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DECOLONIALHE</a> (<br/> Romina Istratii and Alex Lewis)</p>
<p><br/> Convivial thinking <a href="https://www.convivialthinking.org/">https://www.convivialthinking.org/</a> (Lata Narayanaswamy and Julia Schöneberg)</p>
<p><br/> If you have examples of others, please put them in the chat or get in touch.</p>
<p><br/> Very recently, I have written a book chapter with two colleagues from the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group in Wageningen University, namely Nyamwaya Munthali and Peter Shapland on ‘A systemic approach to decolonization of knowledge: implications for scholars of development studies’ and I think it had two innovative aspects: it focused on the systemic aspects of the problem: how change is difficult to bring about because it is embedded in the landscape and institutions; and it also focused on action and activism: what can scholars do to address these issues. I’m very happy to share this chapter if anyone is interested, drop me a line.</p>
<p><br/> For me, based on my research for that chapter, two concepts stood out as making it easier to discuss uncomfortable truths. I also had to laugh at myself for trying to define to complex concepts during a lightening talk but here goes:</p>
<p><br/> <strong>Coloniality</strong><br/> Coloniality refers to entrenched power dynamics and patterns of knowledge creation and use which have emerged from power relations of colonial domination. I think this is really important because when we look around us, we sometimes forget that the institutions and behaviour that we take for granted are rooted in history. One example: academic publishing – as was discussed by Bruce Boyes in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAjKl-ukfc&ab_channel=KM4Dev" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Decolonization of knowledge</a> café – which is dominated by the USA and UK.</p>
<p><br/> <strong>Wilful hermeneutic injustice</strong><br/> Epistemic injustice can be divided into two concepts: testimonial injustice – which particularly says what local people and women say is not believed or not listened to – and hermeneutic injustice ‘where a social disadvantaged group is blocked from access to knowledge’. This later concept also includes wilful hermeneutic injustice when hermeneutic injustice is done on purpose – and scholars are arguing that this is the result of ‘ethically bad knowledge practices.’</p>
<p><br/> These are the two concepts which I wanted to highlight as potentially useful for these discussions.</p>COMMUNITY RADIO IN BANGLADESH: THE ROAD 2 WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP & EMPOWERMENTtag:www.km4dev.org,2020-10-12:2672907:BlogPost:1374232020-10-12T07:55:03.000ZAHM Bazlur Rahmanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AHMBazlurRahman95
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<p>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been struggling for the last 20 years to open up the community media (including Community Radio, Community Television) and giving focus on its vital role as voices of the voiceless rural people.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Information Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh has…</p>
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<p>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been struggling for the last 20 years to open up the community media (including Community Radio, Community Television) and giving focus on its vital role as voices of the voiceless rural people.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Information Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh has declared Community Radio Installation, Broadcast and Operation Policy 2008, which was the citizens’ expectation since the year 1998. Accordingly, in April, 2010, Ministry of Information has approved 32 Community Radio Stations to operate for the first time in the country. In 2012 Ministry of Information has declared National Strategy for Community Radio to support implementation of Community Radio Installation, broadcast and Operation Policy.</p>
<p>After the approval of license Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has allocated frequency and then the Community Radio stations started broadcasting from 2011 in line with National Frequency Allocation Plan. BTRC has already reserved 5 frequency for Community Radio Operation like 99.2, 98.8, 99.0 FM etc.</p>
<p>Now 18 Community Radio Stations are on-air in the country, aiming to ensure empowerment and right to information for the rural community. They are broadcasting altogether 170 hours program per day on information, education, local entertainment and development motivation activities. Around 1000 Youth Women & Youth are now working with those Stations throughout the country as rural broadcasters. Of the total 1000 broadcasters 46% are youth women while the rest are youth.</p>
<p>These programs are quite supportive to the activities reflected in 7th 5year plan of Government of Bangladesh, UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Action Plan, and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).</p>
<p>Community Radio in Bangladesh has potentiated fostering equitable access to and use of information, communication channels, media and information and communication technologies (ICT), including education and training programmes, and media programmes that address the needs, concerns and interests of women and girls, and promote balanced and non-stereotypical portrayals of them; that, consequently, more women and girls are being empowered through ‘connection,’ which supports their right to freedom of expression and to challenge gender stereotypes, share opinions and ideas, build knowledge and access information; and that there is increasing media and digital literacy among women and girls, which is critical to their being full and active agents in social and public life in rural areas.</p>
<p>Moreover, Community Radio has created scope for the poor and marginalized community to raise their own voice; it becomes the voice for the voiceless. This neo-media outlet opened scope to establish their rights of Information and communication in social, political, cultural and environmental arena.</p>
<p>Scope widened for poverty reduction and sustainable development because of the rights to raise voice of the community and accessibility to knowledge and information & cope created for Social debate, inclusion and preservation of cultural diversity by ensuring the inclusion of the marginalized community.</p>
<p>Scope opened for exchange of dialogue between local elected representatives, govt. and NGO professionals for the sake of establishing good governance. Direct linkage established between the community and the main sectors reflected in SDGs and 7th 5-year plan. Community Radio is now able to play more active role in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) due to establishment of effective linkage between the govt. departments and local/rural community. In Bangladesh there has been a progressive and positive growth in the numbers of rural women in radio newsrooms, working as producer, station manager and in the online space as writers and people of influence through community radio stations.</p>
<p>Twenty-Five years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which highlighted for the first time the critical role of media in the attainment of gender equality and women’s empowerment, now community radio stations in Bangladesh provides first-hand insights into how issues of gender impact the lives and work of community journalism in rural Bangladesh.</p>
<p>Freedom of expression, which includes freedom of information and freedom of the press, is a fundamental human right and a prerequisite for democracy. Over the past two decades, the concept of freedom of expression — traditionally based on the notion that state control is the primary threat to free expression — has been broadened to include several other aspects.</p>
<p>An important dimension is the role played by gender in determining access to these freedoms. “The undeniable link between freedom of expression and women’s human rights, which include the right to express their opinions, to have access to their own means of communication and to work in the existing mass media” was recalled by the 2010 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights to Freedom of Opinion and Expression</p>
<p>The rural youth women in Bangladesh are working in the community radio for making good progress. Such as youth women are working as community broadcasters. They are working side by side with their counterparts building their career. There are many instances of youth women holding key positions where they are taking vital decisions in the affairs of program/news broadcasting.</p>
<p><strong>Currently six CR stations are headed by female station managers. The same youth women are now managing the radio stations and such sophisticated radio transmission technology who once had a phobia. such the practice is in fact, reducing dependency on men and hence also helping in gender balance.</strong></p>
<p><span><strong><u>Konika Rani, Assistant Station Manager, Community Radio Meghna 99.0 FM</u></strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13708" src="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Meghna.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="718"/>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Meghna-768x574.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" />Konika Rani’s father feels honored when people in public places enquires about his young daughter who now works as the station manager of the local community radio–Radio Meghna located in the coastal district of Bhola, about 350 km south of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka.</p>
<p>“I feel so proud when people want to know about my daughter. She has earned quite a lot of reputation broadcasting radio programs to change lives of the local community,” says a delighted face of Deb Sagar, Konika’s father who is a fruit vendor in Charfasson in Bhola where most people live on agriculture and fishing. “The height of Konika’s reputation reached its peak when she was promoted to take charge of the radio station as the assistant station manager early this year. During occasional social exchanges friends, relatives and even local bank and government officials share compliments to show respect to my daughter for her role as a radio broadcaster in the society,” says Deb with tears of happiness.</p>
<p>Konika joined Radio Meghna on 18 Feb, 2015 and gradually she climbed the ladder amid 15 other reporters, producers and presenters. She is now studying management and preparing for her graduation. A delighted Konika shares, “I had to work very hard to earn such reputation. Everybody welcomes me whenever they greet me. But more importantly, I am so proud to say that I am able to contribute to my family’s earnings.”</p>
<p>Like Konika six other youth women fellow station managers or assistant managers are also known to have been successfully managing their respective radio stations. They are; Shahana Parveen of Radio Padma, Allaya Ferdous of Radio Mahananda, Parvin Nahar of Radio Jhenuk, Papia Sultana of Radio Sagardwip and Esrat Jahan of Community Visual Community Visual Radio Voirob.</p>
<p>Most of the youth women living in remote rural areas, have faced patriarchy and challenged to prove that women are equally capable of doing any job that men usually dominate in a society ruled by influential people. Known as courageous, passionate and highly enthusiastic, these youth women have conquered their fears breaking the traditional religious and social barriers and working with men side by side.</p>
<p><span><strong><u>Papia Sultana, Station Manager, Radio Sagordwip 99.2 FM</u></strong></span></p>
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<p>Papia Sultana Jhumu has been promoted to station manager of Radio Sagordwip located in the island of Hatiya which is about 280 km south west of the capital Dhaka. Since joining in 2016 Papiya has had many opportunities of being one of the leading programs and news presenters in her radio.</p>
<p>As its location clearly illustrates, Hatiya island is vulnerable to cyclones and similar natural disasters. “We are forced to design our program to make people aware on how to protect and be safe during cyclones or tidal surges. Apart from our professional duties we also have great responsibilities towards our community. During peak season (May – April) the community is on high alert and vulnerable to disasters,” says Papiya.</p>
<p>Due to constant awareness programs that we broadcast, Radio Sagardwip plays a vital role in the community. “People always pay respect and gratitude for the roles played by us,” says Papia.</p>
<p><span><strong><u>Allaya Ferdous, Station Manager, Radio Mahananda 98.8 FM</u></strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13710" src="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mahananda.jpg" alt="" width="2048" height="1242"/>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mahananda-768x466.jpg 768w, <a href="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mahananda-1536x932.jpg">https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Mahananda-1536x932.jpg</a> 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" />Allaya Ferdous, station manager of Radio Mahananda has been associated with Proyas, a leading NGO in Chapainawabganj, a district located in northeastern region prior to joining the station.</p>
<p>Already having vast experiences in holding courtyard meetings, discussions and generating ideas working as a project official, Allaya looked for opportunity to join Radio Mahananda as the project coordinator. She soon was able to show her abilities and performed well in the radio.</p>
<p>“It was a challenge for me since I was offered the job to produce radio programs. As I already had been exposed to similar programs, it took me no time to demonstrate my capabilities,” said a confident voice of Allaya. “In fact,” she said, “I was lucky to see and attend a workshop on community radio in Jadavpur University in Kolkata in 2010. This gave me an added experience and use the knowledge to perform in Radio Mahananda.”</p>
<p>Women are advancing in the societies with greater roles of responsibilities. Such exposure has given youth woman like Allaya the right to express, enjoys more empowerment and voice concerns for women in a much open and liberal manner without fear or obstacles. Men’s attitude towards women, especially working women, have significantly changed which is now well reflected in the community.</p>
<p>“Because of my top position in the radio station, I think we have more female working in our station than other stations. A total of 16 youth women work in Radio Mahananda. Due to such efforts to remove discrimination against women the societies are now more aware of the rights of the women. Allaya says, “Women today enjoy a dignified life than before. Men show more respect and recognize their contributions. Such changes were unthinkable even five years ago but women have truly demonstrated that women have potentials and often can perform superior works given the opportunities.”</p>
<p><span><strong><u>Parvin Nahar, Station Manager, Radio Jhenuk 99.2 FM</u></strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13711" src="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jhenuk.jpg" alt="" width="2016" height="1512"/>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jhenuk-768x576.jpg 768w, <a href="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jhenuk-1536x1152.jpg">https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jhenuk-1536x1152.jpg</a> 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px" />Parvin Nahar of Radio Jhenuk has been literally associated with the radio station ever since its inception in 2009 when she was working for Srizony Bangladesh, a local NGO. She described her joining as ‘by sheer luck’ as she had been asked to replace a then popular local presenter and participate in a month-long training on radio programs production. “That was the beginning of my career. When I took charge, I was given overall responsibilities of establishing the entire radio station from paper works to installing transmission equipment,” said Parveen adding “It’s indeed a huge achievement!!”</p>
<p>Parvin has had the opportunities of traveling to many community radios in India, Nepal and even in the United States gaining technical knowledge on how to operate a community radio station. “The visits greatly helped me to learn mechanical operation of the machines we use in our stations. In fact, I can fix from minor to even some major faults of the machine we use in our studios,” said Parveen.</p>
<p>She said, “I am very proud today that I am able to contribute to my community. The programmes I produce are custom-designed to cater the needs of the local society. Radio Jhenuk acts as a central platform for learning and changing behaviour. Women’s increased participation in workplaces and their enhanced awareness are some of the examples.”</p>
<p>Parvin continued, “Women are better empowered as it is well reflected in our society. Radio Jhenuk has a lot of contributions for broadcasting advocacy programmes but what is more important, we have been able to change men’s attribute from negative views on women working in public places to men now thinking positively about women’s participation in public work places. With enhanced knowledge, men are now supporting women’s role in the society.”</p>
<p><span><strong><u>Shahana Parveen, Station Manager, Radio Padma 99.2 FM</u></strong></span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13712" src="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pdama.jpg" alt="" width="2048" height="1444"/>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pdama-768x542.jpg 768w, <a href="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pdama-1536x1083.jpg">https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Pdama-1536x1083.jpg</a> 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px" />Shahana Parvin, station manager of Radio Padma in Rajshahi, located in north of Dhaka, has been associated with the station ever since its journey began in 2011. While in her studies as a student of journalism Shahana was passionate about working as a broadcast journalist in a radio station. “Although I worked in a local NGO but I was always fascinated to working in a media,” said Shahana.</p>
<p>A confident woman, Shahana explains, “In a male dominated society, especially where religion prevails, women are largely confined to homes. Such primitive view was once common but steady improvement has changed our society.”</p>
<p>Shahana had the opportunity of visiting USA in a five-week tour during a fellowship offered by the American English Radio Project. “It was an eye opener for me. I learnt many positive things which I could not have if I did not visit USA.”</p>
<p><span><strong>Esrat Jahan, Station Manager of Community Visual Radio Voirob</strong>.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13713" src="https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Voirob-1.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="720"/>https://bnnrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Voirob-1-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" />The journey of Radio Voirob has been started for last one year as a community media. The concept of visual radio is comparatively new in our country. As a result, as the Station Manager of such a new type visual radio station, Esrat Jahan thinks that she has to learn a lot about the technical aspects of the station.</p>
<p>However, her experience in community journalism is around 15 years. It was started from 2004 with the participation in a fellowship program offered by the Pratichi Trust. The Trust was founded by Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen. journalism became a passion hobby and social responsibility for Esrat Jahan. Then one by one she gained experience gradually working in several dailies and electronic media.</p>
<p>Esrat Jahan thinks that with this experience and the efforts of a group of lively and enthusiastic broadcasters of Radio Voirob, the Radio Voirob will soon be able to alleviate the information poverty of the coastal area of Bagerhat as well as spread its culture and heritage from national to international level. Community radio is one such platform where youth women have played substantial role in raising voices of women, in particular those who are marginalized and neglected in the society.</p>
<p>Youth women in the rural Bangladesh are gradually advancing contributing to the socio-economic development of the nation. Instead of being confined and restrained at home these women earned equal respect and dignity through hard works. They are now more empowered to make their own decisions.</p>KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT(KM) VERSUS BIG DATA(BD)?tag:www.km4dev.org,2020-09-22:2672907:BlogPost:1276092020-09-22T15:49:11.000ZThabo Mosiakgabohttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/ThaboTlale
<p>Knowledge without a doubt has led to the evolution of people as a species and the role it has played in global economies and societies, can not be disputed. KM has always played an important role in collecting,storing, analysing, mining and processing data into knowledge although this practice varied from one organisation to the other due to varying organisational cultures. In todays world where rapid advancement in technologies has led to a phenomenon known as big data, we now find…</p>
<p>Knowledge without a doubt has led to the evolution of people as a species and the role it has played in global economies and societies, can not be disputed. KM has always played an important role in collecting,storing, analysing, mining and processing data into knowledge although this practice varied from one organisation to the other due to varying organisational cultures. In todays world where rapid advancement in technologies has led to a phenomenon known as big data, we now find ourselves being overwhelmed thus leading to the adoption of requirements and tools that comes with this new phenomenon. Big companies have now invested heavily in dealing with this large volumes of data for its not about the amount but its about what they do with it. So the big question is, is KM, which has led to some organisational innovations before going to be swallowed by this new phenomenon?.</p>Obituary: Hugo Besemertag:www.km4dev.org,2020-09-20:2672907:BlogPost:1276662020-09-20T19:00:00.000ZSarahCummingshttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/SarahCummings
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7949159865?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-right" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7949159865?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> We are very sad to let you know that our colleague and friend, <a href="http://www.km4dev.org/profile/HugoBesemer" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hugo Besemer</a>, passed away suddenly at home in Randwijk, The Netherlands, on 10 July 2020.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hugo has been at the heart of…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7949159865?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/7949159865?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right"/></a>We are very sad to let you know that our colleague and friend, <a href="http://www.km4dev.org/profile/HugoBesemer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hugo Besemer</a>, passed away suddenly at home in Randwijk, The Netherlands, on 10 July 2020.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hugo has been at the heart of significant steps in information management for international development. Whilst he helped generations of researchers at Wageningen University & Research in their research and data management, his work internationally had an impact on thousands of information managers across the world.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hugo supported a global community of UNESCO library software users through the CDS-ISIS discussion list and Fangorn (He always brought a mysticism to the software and services). He was the content force behind the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations training series, iMark, and played a key role in supporting the development of CIARD, an initiative that focussed on principles for Agricultural Information Management across the world. He helped design the Research for Development institutional repository for the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and supported the UK government to publish open metadata on international development research.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A founding board member of the</span> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledge Management for Development Journal</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, he was also an active member of the Information Management Working Group of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and of the IKM Emergent Research Programme.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He produced a number of papers in the agricultural information world, most recently for the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA). His work will continue to help information managers across the world through the course materials he has written in the e-learning and online courses for the FAO, Wageningen University & Research and CTA.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was always a pleasure to collaborate with Hugo, and we always benefited from his insights, his critical mind and the excellent advice he gave. No-one could speak his mind in such an honest and yet gentle way like Hugo. We would have never missed an occasion to involve him in projects, discussions and collaborations, we knew that we would all learn from Hugo. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A brilliant, delicate man who definitely leaves a legacy to our community of data and information practitioners, a lasting legacy and an indelible mark on all our lives. As colleagues, we will miss his supportive thoughtful approach, a mischievous smile and intelligent analysis. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>In his private life, Hugo was a nature lover and a poet.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Addison, Sarah Cummings, Martin Parr, Imma Subirats, Joke Webbink, Ilkay Holt, Valeria Pesce, Mike Powell</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to receive some of Hugo’s ‘Dichtkaarten’ (Poetry cards) as a rememberance, please get in touch with Sarah sarahcummingswork@gmail.com</span></p>BNNRC recognized for 4th time Champions in UN WSIS Prizes 2020tag:www.km4dev.org,2020-09-11:2672907:BlogPost:1275652020-09-11T12:39:18.000ZAHM Bazlur Rahmanhttp://www.km4dev.org/profile/AHMBazlurRahman95
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<p><span>Media development related initiative of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been recognized for 4th time as Champions in UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Prizes 2020.</span></p>
<p>The Champions prize was distributed virtual by ITU Secretary General on 7<sup>th</sup> September…</p>
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<p><span>Media development related initiative of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has been recognized for 4th time as Champions in UN World Summit on the Information Society (UN WSIS) Prizes 2020.</span></p>
<p>The Champions prize was distributed virtual by ITU Secretary General on 7<sup>th</sup> September 2020, Geneva, Switzerland. Out of 352 nominated ICT success stories from around the world, following a comprehensive review by the Expert Group of 776 projects submitted by the WSIS Stakeholders’ community, WSIS Expert Group have reviewed more than 2 million votes.</p>
<p>UN WSIS Prizes honor outstanding projects that leverage the power of information and communication technology (ICT) to accelerate socio-economic development. Besides the highlighted relevance of the project to the respective WSIS Action Line as referenced in the Geneva and Tunis Plan of Action, the selection process was based on the project’s impact on the community and linkages with the Sustainable Development. Since its inception, the contest of WSIS Prizes has attracted more than 300,000 stakeholders.</p>
<p>WSIS Prizes has been recognizing remarkable efforts made by entities and organizations from around the globe that focus on accelerating the socio-economic progress of the whole world as a community. <strong>The champion project is: Digital Safety and Security for the Journalists in Bangladesh. <a href="https://bnnrc.net/digital-safety-and-security-for-the-journalists-in-bangladesh/">https://bnnrc.net/digital-safety-and-security-for-the-journalists-in-bangladesh/</a></strong></p>
<p>The goal of the project was aiming to provide overall idea about the use of information and communication technology (ICT) Digital Safety and Security for the Journalists in Bangladesh in carrying out the professional duties without any problem at district and other places of Bangladesh.</p>
<p>It would be mentioned that BNNRC first won the WSIS Award in 2016 as the winner and champion of 2017, 2019. BNNRC has been chosen for this award on account of its creative thinking, critical analysis, strong media development leadership and exceptional innovation of community and media sector contributing towards voices of the voiceless people in rural Bangladesh. BNNRC is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) SDGs Media Compact of the United Nations.</p>
<p>BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly changing media environment in Bangladesh including community radio development giving voices for the voiceless in line with shaping the Future of Media, Information & Entertainment in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR).</p>
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<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an…</p>
<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an added bonus. Please contact me at : wen_sea19@yahoo.com or wsealy54@gmail.com. Thank you.</p>
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<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an…</p>
<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an added bonus. Please contact me at : wen_sea19@yahoo.com or wsealy54@gmail.com. Thank you.</p>
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<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an…</p>
<p>Dear Colleagues can you please direct to an established resource who is capable ofof assisting the Caribbean Development Bank which is embarking on a digitization project to convert all its records . The Project is being managed by IT. I would like to identify a resource who has worked on a similar conversion project and has perhaps advised on the Information Services component (ECM, Archiving m etc. Moreso this resource must have International Financial Institutions structures would be an added bonus. Please contact me at : wen_sea19@yahoo.com or wsealy54@gmail.com. Thank you.</p>
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