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The Art of Knowledge Exchange: Results-Focused Guide for Development Practitioners

Summary

Full title: The Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide for Development Practitioners in the Social, Urban, Land, and Resilience Sectors

Based on the original publication Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide for Development Practitioners (2015), this guide has been customized for practitioners in the urban, social, land, and resilience sectors. It offers a practical step-by-step framework with illustrative examples on how to design, implement, and measure progress with regard to knowledge exchange initiatives.

This planning guide is for anyone who wishes to design, implement, and measure a results-oriented knowledge exchange initiative. It is written for those who broker knowledge exchange: it connects and facilitates engagements between knowledge seekers and providers.
This guide follows a strategic approach to learning. It does so by breaking down the knowledge exchange process into five simple steps. And by providing tools to help you play a more effective role as a knowledge broker.
This approach will help you to:
» consider knowledge exchange within a broader programmatic and development context.
» ensure your initiative is stakeholder-owned and demand-driven.
» determine the challenges to reaching a solution.
» reflect on the change processes needed to address these challenges.
» identify individuals or groups who can play effective roles in bringing about needed change.
» choose the right mix of knowledge exchange instruments and activities to help your participants learn, grow, and act.
» implement in an adaptive and learning-focused manner.
» measure and report the results of your knowledge exchange initiative.

Review by Wilde Ganzen

An important task of the World Bank, apart from financing development projects, is to enhance the capacities of people working towards a world with less poverty and inequality. This very detailed handbook provides many useful tools on how to disseminate results and promote contacts between practitioners in the field.

It has the following subjects:

ANCHOR
Step 1.1 Identify the Development Goal
Step 1.2 Define the Institutional Challenge(s)
Step 1.3 Determine the Change Objective(s)
DEFINE
Step 2.1 Identify the Ideal Participant Profiles
Step 2.2 Determine Intermediate Outcomes.
Step 2.3 Identify the Most Appropriate Knowledge Providers.

DESIGN & DEVELOP
Step 3.1 Select the Participants.
Step 3.2 Verify the Objective and Outcomes.
Step 3.3 Organize the Design and Delivery Team.
Step 3.4 Assemble the Knowledge Exchange .

IMPLEMENT
Step 4.1 Guide the Participants along Their Learning Journey.
Step 4.2 Orchestrate Engagement and Build Relationships.
Step 4.3 Document Implementation and Track Results.

MEASURE & REPORT THE RESULTS
Step 5.1 Synthesize Implementation Data .
Step 5.2 Measure Results .
5tep 5.3 Report Results.

In addition, there is a well-stacked Toolbox, containing:
INSTRUMENTS
1. Short-Term Engagement
Conference
Expert Visit
Knowledge Fair
Study Tour
Technical Deep Dive
Workshop
2. Medium-Term Engagement
Competition/Challenge
Knowledge Jam
Multi-stakeholder Dialogue/Consultation
3. Long-Term Engagement
Community of Practice
Twinning

ACTIVITIES
1. Presentation
Demonstration
Expert Panel
Lightning Talks
Poster Session
Report
Storytelling
2. Discussion
Anecdote Circle
Brainstorming
Buzz Session
e-Discussion
Knowledge Café
Peer Assist
3. Experiential
Action Planning
Book Sprint
Field Visit
Fishbowl
Role Play
Secondment
Simulation
4. Analytical
After-Action Review
Focus Group
Gap Analysis
Interview
Self-Assessment
Survey
SWOT Analysis

In our view, it can be useful if used very selectively: to assist with ideas, as a checklist, etcetera.

Keywords

Knowledge dissemination tools

Author: Kumar, Shobha; Leonard, Aaron; Watkins, Ryan; Vovides, Yianna; and Kerby, Brigitte.

Publisher/source/organization: World Bank, Washington, DC.

Place and year of issue: Washington DC 2018

Type: Book

Country/region: Worldwide

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