All Blog Posts Tagged 'Management' (9)

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA) ACP-EU has developed a training kit on Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication available online and on DVD, which is intended to support indigenous and marginalised communities’ participation in documenting, representing, and communicating…

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International Fund for Agricultural Development, India Country Office had organized workshop on Integration of Gender,  Knowledge Management, and Monitoring and Evaluation for enhanced project performance under LEWI Grant on November, 1-4, 2011 at New Delhi. The main objective of the workshop was to enhance project performance and integrate thematic areas i.e. Gender, Knowledge Management with a robust Project Monitoring and evaluation system. 

More Details can be obtained from…

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Hello Members of KM4DEV,



My name is Mark Turner and I work for the consulting arm of the international NGO Practical Action (www.practicalaction.org.uk).



I am working as part of a team on an exciting new knowledge management programme called ELLA (Evidence and Lessons from Latin America).



ELLA is a DFID funded project which aims to identify, synthesise and collate development lessons learned from experiences in Latin… Continue

Taxonomy Integration

In the digital world of online repositories, taxonomies and ontologies are the primary ways to categorize content by their underlying (or implicit) information domains. Taxonomies mean any controlled vocabulary

for tagging content. Thus a taxonomy is a logical organization based on how a

particular…

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Africa is perhaps the most culturally imaginative and creative region in the world. It is extremely diversified, rich in talents and ingenuity with unlimited

resources and potential. It has colonized the planet and it enriches humanity

through inimitable arts. Yet, one African out of two lives in dismal human conditions.

And despite spectacular progress here and there, it also remains profoundly…

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(This post was originally published on the K4Health Blog)

By Elizabeth Duncan McLean

One of our most critical outcomes from the three day meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, with the District and National level stakeholders, was that the group no longer saw knowledge management as a problem that’s “out there” but rather began viewing it as a challenge that they wanted to take on as…

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In an effort to assist the thousands of aid workers in Haiti responding to the aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks, K4Health has published the Haiti Relief Toolkit which provides practical and technical health-related information for those on the ground.



The Haiti Relief Toolkit is a resource to help health workers respond more effectively to the earthquake relief efforts underway in… Continue

[Cross-pollinated on the K4Health Blog during the International Family Planning Conference in Kampala, Uganda]



As the International Conference on Family Planning: Research and Best Practices gets underway in Kampala, Uganda, it’s important to remember that to increase family planning (FP) worldwide, information needs to be shared and exchanged among program managers and health service providers working on the front lines.… Continue

Knowledge Management is the convergence of planning, sharing, networking, collaboration, analysing and reusing of both information resources and/or intellectual capital to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness in risk control, process and product innovation.