Knowledge Management for Organizational Capacity

K4D Program Initiative

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Much in the same way that national leaders are developing strategies to remain competitive in the new, global knowledge-based economy, institutions in the public, private or non-profit sectors, have come to realize the role which “knowledge” can play in enhancing the effectiveness of their operations. In addition to investments in human resources and leveraging the role information technology, they have begun to devote considerable attention to harnessing the explicit and tacit knowledge they posses.

This initiative is supported by the World Bank Institute’s Knowledge for Development (K4D) Program. It aims to enhance the capacity of development-oriented organizations in the client countries to achieve greater impact through the application of knowledge management tools and practices. Download a brief program overview in PDF format.

Contact KMOC Program Leader Ronald Kim, 1-202-473-4612

Highlights

Recent Events

bullet point for events Managing Knowledge to Build Trust in Government - From June 26-29, 2007 in Vienna, Austria, WBI partnered with the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) to deliver a workshop on the ways in which knowledge management can help to build public trust in government. This 4 day workshop was part of the 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government. For more information, see the event web page.

bullet point for events Conference on Knowledge Management as an Enabler of Change and Innovation in Africa - June 11-13, 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. This regional event, sponsored by the Global Development Network (GDN), African Capacity Building Foundation, and WBI, brought together 125 policymakers and practitioners representing 30 African countries, research institutes and universities, the private sector, and development organizations such as UNDP, FAO, CGIAR, WHO, Ashoka Foundation, and the Honeybee Network. The conference focused on how research is shared and applied to development practice generally and within specific sectors. It served as the culmination of the collaboration between GDN and WBI in developing the knowledge management capacity of a number of African organizations (involving four previous sub-regional workshops), and as the formal launch of new regional programs in Latin America and South Asia. For more information, see the event web page.

bullet point for events Knowledge Management Capacity for African Research Institutes and Networks: Western Africa Workshop - From April 11-13, 2007 the World Bank Institute in cooperation with the Global Development Network organized the 3rd in its series of sub-regional workshops across Sub-Saharan Africa in cooperation with the Institute of Economic and Social Policies/Centre d’analyse des Politiques Economiques et Sociales. For more information, visit the workshop web page.

bullet point for events Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) Forum 2007 - WBI assisted the Asia Development Bank in the delivery of the 2007 gathering of the KM4Dev community. This was the first meeting of KM4Dev in East Asia. For more information, go to the forum web page.

Knowledge Management in Thailand - On February 15, 2007, in Bangkok -Thailand, WBI delivered a one-day workshop on knowledge management in partnership with the Thailand Knowledge Management Institute. For more information, see the event web page.

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Feature Resources

bullet point for events Communities of Practice for Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Erik C. Johnson and Ramla Khalidi. KM4D Journal. (PDF, 109Kb)

bullet point for events Thematic Group Toolkit provides support for the creation and development of "communities of practice."

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