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The Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide For Development Practitioners

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This guide takes the complexity out of the process of designing and implementing knowledge exchange programs by identifying simple steps and providing tools to enable more effective knowledge connections and learning facilitation. The document provides guideance on»» Identifying & Assessing capacity development needs»» Designing & Developing an appropriate knowledge exchange initiativethat responds to those needs»» Implementing the knowledge exchange initiative»» Measuring & Reporting the results 

Authors: 
Shobha Kumar
Aaron Leonard
Organizational Authors: 
World Bank
Year Published: 
2012
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Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meetings and Tools

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Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meeting Places and Tools presents a selection of easy ways to help readers have better access to the knowledge needed to do their jobs more effectively.

Organizational Authors: 
Canadian International Development Agency
Year Published: 
2003
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Knowledge Sharing for Change: Designing and Facilitating Learning Processes with a Transformative Impact

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This handbook is designed as a script for training courses in facilitation and transformational change management. It seeks to create a greater understanding of complex adaptive systems, kindle a new understanding of facilitation and leadership, and give readers a set of practical tools. 

Authors: 
Mark Steinlin
Catherine Widrig Jenkins
Organizational Authors: 
IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge
Year Published: 
2010
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ABC of Knowledge Management

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A soup to nuts guide to knowledge management from knowledge audits to measurement of KM efforts, along with definitions, processes and approaches, and a toolbox of techniques

Organizational Authors: 
United Kingdom National Health Service
Year Published: 
2005
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Accountability, Learning and Planning System

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ActionAid’s Accountability, Learning and Planning System works to guide the learning and planning process to ensure the organization creates the space for innovation, learning and critical reflection while reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. It also a guide to building synergy and linkages across programs at local, national and international levels as well as ensuring planning, monitoring and review processes that are participatory and transparent but also rigorous.

Organizational Authors: 
Action Aid
Year Published: 
2011
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Learning for Change in the Asian Development Bank

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While written for staff at the Asian Development Bank, this document, nevertheless, provides more general readers an overview of the steps to becoming a learning organization, including clear definitions for what constitutes a learning organization and different organizational configurations this can take, anticipating roadblocks and overcoming challenges, managing critical success factors, and integrating the process of learning from evaluation into organizational systems.

Authors: 
Olivier Serrat
Organizational Authors: 
Asian Development Bank
Year Published: 
2009
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Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

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This guide provides users advise on using social media to improve reach of health messages, increase access to your content, further participation with audiences and advance transparency to improve health communication efforts.

Organizational Authors: 
United States Centers for Disease Control
Year Published: 
2011
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Knowledge Networks and Virtual Collaboration: A Framework for Success

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This guide, providing advice on how to create, manage and evaluate knowledge networks, is divided into four sections: 1. An Introduction to Knowledge Networks; 2. Creating Knowledge Networks; 3. Managing Knowledge Networks; and finally, 4. Monitoring and Evaluating Knowledge Networks. Each section contains recommended strategies, tools and resources, as well as relevant WHO case studies and lessons learned.

Authors: 
Erica Nelson
Organizational Authors: 
World Health Organization
Year Published: 
2009
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Knowledge Management Assessment Model and Tool

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The assessment model and tool work to identify where an organization is in terms of the maturity of its knowledge management activities and systems. Assessment addresses a number of domains including: KM Strategies, Human and Social KM Issues, KM Organization, KM Processes, KM Technologies, KM Leadership, KM Performance Management, KM Implementation, and Business Cases.

Organizational Authors: 
European KM Forum
Year Published: 
2002
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Auditing Knowledge

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Knowledge audits help organizations identify their knowledge-based assets and develop strategies to manage them. This brief outlines the purpose of a knowledge audit, the deliverables that could result, and the key steps to carrying one out.

Authors: 
Olivier Serrat
Organizational Authors: 
Asian Development Bank
Year Published: 
2008
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Tools for Stakeholder Analysis: 10 building blocks for designing participatory systems of cooperation

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To increase the impact of an intervention, it is particularly important to have a constructive way of dealing with resistance from specific roleplayers, as well as to build alliances and develop joint activities aimed at achieving common goals. In this way. The tool box contains ten building blocks that have been tested in practice that can be used flexibly depending on the context to not only reach particular vulnerable groups of a community, but also to include them as participants.

Authors: 
Dr Arthur Zimmermann
Dr Claudia Maennling
Organizational Authors: 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Year Published: 
2007
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Knowledge Sharing Methods and Tools: A Facilitators Guide

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The guide is intended as a broad overview and workshop format for skills strenthening in knowledge sharing tools and approaches. It can be used directly to plan and deliver a “KS Methods and Tools Workshop” that would provide hands-on practice in the use of the methods and tools, to integrate KS skills strengthening into a workshop on another topic, or to integrate KS practices directly into progam activities.

Authors: 
Allison Hewlitt
Lucie Lamoureux
Organizational Authors: 
International Development Research Center
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Year Published: 
2010
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Tools for Stakeholder Analysis: 10 building blocks for designing participatory systems of cooperation

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To increase the impact of an intervention, it is particularly important to have a constructive way of dealing with resistance from specific roleplayers, as well as to build alliances and develop joint activities aimed at achieving common goals. In this way. The tool box contains ten building blocks that have been tested in practice that can be used flexibly depending on the context to not only reach particular vulnerable groups of a community, but also to include them as participants.

Authors: 
Dr Arthur Zimmermann
Dr Claudia Maennling
Organizational Authors: 
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Year Published: 
2007
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The Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide For Development Practitioners

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This guide takes the complexity out of the process of designing and implementing knowledge exchange programs by identifying simple steps and providing tools to enable more effective knowledge connections and learning facilitation. The document provides guideance on»» Identifying & Assessing capacity development needs»» Designing & Developing an appropriate knowledge exchange initiativethat responds to those needs»» Implementing the knowledge exchange initiative»» Measuring & Reporting the results 

Authors: 
Shobha Kumar
Aaron Leonard
Organizational Authors: 
World Bank
Year Published: 
2012
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Knowledge Sharing for Change: Designing and Facilitating Learning Processes with a Transformative Impact

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This handbook is designed as a script for training courses in facilitation and transformational change management. It seeks to create a greater understanding of complex adaptive systems, kindle a new understanding of facilitation and leadership, and give readers a set of practical tools. 

Authors: 
Mark Steinlin
Catherine Widrig Jenkins
Organizational Authors: 
IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge
Year Published: 
2010
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ABC of Knowledge Management

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A soup to nuts guide to knowledge management from knowledge audits to measurement of KM efforts, along with definitions, processes and approaches, and a toolbox of techniques

Organizational Authors: 
United Kingdom National Health Service
Year Published: 
2005
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Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meetings and Tools

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Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meeting Places and Tools presents a selection of easy ways to help readers have better access to the knowledge needed to do their jobs more effectively.

Organizational Authors: 
Canadian International Development Agency
Year Published: 
2003
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Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

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This guide provides users advise on using social media to improve reach of health messages, increase access to your content, further participation with audiences and advance transparency to improve health communication efforts.

Organizational Authors: 
United States Centers for Disease Control
Year Published: 
2011
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Knowledge Management Toolkit for the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Practice Area

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The toolkit explains the concept of knowledge management (KM), before introducing various KM products and tools, pulling together a range of resources, tools and techniques that can help us to learn from one another’s experiences and improve the way we work in crisis prevention and recovery situations.

Organizational Authors: 
United Nations Development Program
Year Published: 
2007
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Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies

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The report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between them in future emergencies.

Organizational Authors: 
United Nations Foundation
OCHA
Vodafone Foundation
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Year Published: 
2011
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Knowledge Networks and Virtual Collaboration: A Framework for Success

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This guide, providing advice on how to create, manage and evaluate knowledge networks, is divided into four sections: 1. An Introduction to Knowledge Networks; 2. Creating Knowledge Networks; 3. Managing Knowledge Networks; and finally, 4. Monitoring and Evaluating Knowledge Networks. Each section contains recommended strategies, tools and resources, as well as relevant WHO case studies and lessons learned.

Authors: 
Erica Nelson
Organizational Authors: 
World Health Organization
Year Published: 
2009
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Knowledge Management Assessment Model and Tool

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The assessment model and tool work to identify where an organization is in terms of the maturity of its knowledge management activities and systems. Assessment addresses a number of domains including: KM Strategies, Human and Social KM Issues, KM Organization, KM Processes, KM Technologies, KM Leadership, KM Performance Management, KM Implementation, and Business Cases.

Organizational Authors: 
European KM Forum
Year Published: 
2002
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ABC of Knowledge Management

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application/pdf iconABC of Knowledge Management

 

A soup to nuts guide to knowledge management from knowledge audits to measurement of KM efforts, along with definitions, processes and approaches, and a toolbox of techniques

Organizational Authors: 
United Kingdom National Health Service
Year Published: 
2005
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Accountability, Learning and Planning System

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ActionAid’s Accountability, Learning and Planning System works to guide the learning and planning process to ensure the organization creates the space for innovation, learning and critical reflection while reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. It also a guide to building synergy and linkages across programs at local, national and international levels as well as ensuring planning, monitoring and review processes that are participatory and transparent but also rigorous.

Organizational Authors: 
Action Aid
Year Published: 
2011
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Auditing Knowledge

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Knowledge audits help organizations identify their knowledge-based assets and develop strategies to manage them. This brief outlines the purpose of a knowledge audit, the deliverables that could result, and the key steps to carrying one out.

Authors: 
Olivier Serrat
Organizational Authors: 
Asian Development Bank
Year Published: 
2008
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Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies

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application/pdf iconDisaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies

The report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and recommends ways to improve coordination between them in future emergencies.

Organizational Authors: 
United Nations Foundation
OCHA
Vodafone Foundation
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Year Published: 
2011
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Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

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application/pdf iconHealth Communicator's Social Media Toolkit

This guide provides users advise on using social media to improve reach of health messages, increase access to your content, further participation with audiences and advance transparency to improve health communication efforts.

Organizational Authors: 
United States Centers for Disease Control
Year Published: 
2011
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Knowledge Management Assessment Model and Tool

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application/pdf iconKnowledge Management Assessment Model and Tool

The assessment model and tool work to identify where an organization is in terms of the maturity of its knowledge management activities and systems. Assessment addresses a number of domains including: KM Strategies, Human and Social KM Issues, KM Organization, KM Processes, KM Technologies, KM Leadership, KM Performance Management, KM Implementation, and Business Cases.

Organizational Authors: 
European KM Forum
Year Published: 
2002
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Knowledge Management Toolkit

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application/pdf iconKnowlegement Management Toolkit

The aim of this toolkit is to help people in getting familiar with a variety of methods and tools for planning and reflection of their own activities, for drawing lessons and for sharing insights and applying them. It features a selection of more than 20 methods and tools for knowledge sharing and learning, from basic to more advanced tools, applicable at personal, team and organisational level.

Organizational Authors: 
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Year Published: 
2009
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Knowledge Management Toolkit for the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Practice Area

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application/pdf iconKnowledge Management Toolkit for the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Practice Area

The toolkit explains the concept of knowledge management (KM), before introducing various KM products and tools, pulling together a range of resources, tools and techniques that can help us to learn from one another’s experiences and improve the way we work in crisis prevention and recovery situations.

Organizational Authors: 
United Nations Development Program
Year Published: 
2007
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Knowledge Networks and Virtual Collaboration: A Framework for Success

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application/pdf iconKnowledge Networks and Virtual Collaboration: A Framework for Success

This guide, providing advice on how to create, manage and evaluate knowledge networks, is divided into four sections: 1. An Introduction to Knowledge Networks; 2. Creating Knowledge Networks; 3. Managing Knowledge Networks; and finally, 4. Monitoring and Evaluating Knowledge Networks. Each section contains recommended strategies, tools and resources, as well as relevant WHO case studies and lessons learned.

Authors: 
Erica Nelson
Organizational Authors: 
World Health Organization
Year Published: 
2009
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Knowledge Sharing for Change: Designing and Facilitating Learning Processes with a Transformative Impact

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application/pdf iconKnowledge Sharing for Change: Designing and Facilitating Learning Processes with a Tranformational Impact

 

This handbook is designed as a script for training courses in facilitation and transformational change management. It seeks to create a greater understanding of complex adaptive systems, kindle a new understanding of facilitation and leadership, and give readers a set of practical tools. 

Authors: 
Mark Steinlin
Catherine Widrig Jenkins
Organizational Authors: 
IngeniousPeoplesKnowledge
Year Published: 
2010
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