IFAD Strategy for Knowledge Management
The strategy was adopted during the April 2007 executive board.
Four components are presented in the document:
A- Strengthening knowledge-sharing and learning processes,
B- Equipping IFAD with a more supportive knowledge-sharing and learning infrastructure,
C- Fostering partnerships for broader knowledge-sharing and learning,
D- Promoting a supportive knowledge-sharing and learning culture.
Within the strengthening knowledge-sharing and learning processes component, there is special reference to Regional Networks. Here is the summary of the four points addressed:
- Within the country programme cycle: at the country level, three major processes will be strengthened or scaled up to improve impact through knowledge-sharing and learning: (i) the project cycle will be retooled to integrate knowledge management throughout; (ii) a knowledge-based policy development process will be tested; and (iii) specific local learning activities will be scaled up (knowledge, innovation).
- Regional networks: at the regional level, IFAD intends to invest in learning from the experience of existing grant-financed regional networks by selecting two of these – FIDAMERICA in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and FIDAFRIQUE in the Western and Central Africa region – for scaling up and further development. The goal will be to harvest, distil and share regional knowledge, including knowledge related to programmes (for example, strategies/approaches, research and development programmes).
- Thematic networks: at the headquarters level, building on the existing thematic groups, IFAD will initially develop two thematic networks, choosing from among the themes of gender, rural finance, natural resources management and indigenous peoples.
- Learning events and publications: Building on existing events, IFAD will launch a cycle of seminars in order to provide opportunities to discuss and debate global development issues and their relevance to rural poverty. Learning events at country and regional levels will be better and more strategically planned and managed. Their outcomes will be systematically recorded and disseminated through the regional networks and the Rural Poverty Portal.
Full document to download: www.ifad.org/gbdocs/eb/90/e/EB-2007-90-R-4.pdf (330 Ko - 35 pages)