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Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies
Nature does not measure. Nature recognizes patterns. (Senge)
IKM Background Paper October 2009
Joitske Hulsebosch, Mark Turpin and Sibrenne Wagenaar
IKM Background Paper, Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies. October 2009.
About IKM Emergent
In April 2007, a five-year research programme was approved for funding by the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme, Emergent Issues in Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) and International Development, will be known as the IKM Emergent Research Programme. The objective of the programme is to improve development practice by promoting change in the way the development sector approaches the selection, management and use of knowledge in the formation and implementation of its policies and programmes. It aims to achieve this by: Raising awareness of the importance of knowledge to development work and its contested nature; Promoting investment in and use of Southern knowledge production of all types and origins; Creating an environment for innovation, supported by research on existing and emergent practice, for people working in the development sector to raise and discuss means of addressing these issues; and Finding, creating, testing and documenting ideas for processes and tools which will illustrate the range of issues which affect how knowledge is used in development work and stimulate thought around possible solutions.
Colophon IKM Working Papers comprises a series of publications published by the Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Research Programme. Some IKM Working Papers are written by IKM Programme members, others have been commissioned from leading experts in a given field. The content may not necessarily be the view or position of the IKM Emergent Research Programme. IKM Working Papers are published and distributed
Nature does not measure. Nature recognizes patterns. (Senge)
IKM Background Paper October 2009
Joitske Hulsebosch, Mark Turpin and Sibrenne Wagenaar
IKM Background Paper, Monitoring and evaluating knowledge management strategies. October 2009.
About IKM Emergent
In April 2007, a five-year research programme was approved for funding by the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme, Emergent Issues in Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) and International Development, will be known as the IKM Emergent Research Programme. The objective of the programme is to improve development practice by promoting change in the way the development sector approaches the selection, management and use of knowledge in the formation and implementation of its policies and programmes. It aims to achieve this by: Raising awareness of the importance of knowledge to development work and its contested nature; Promoting investment in and use of Southern knowledge production of all types and origins; Creating an environment for innovation, supported by research on existing and emergent practice, for people working in the development sector to raise and discuss means of addressing these issues; and Finding, creating, testing and documenting ideas for processes and tools which will illustrate the range of issues which affect how knowledge is used in development work and stimulate thought around possible solutions.
Colophon IKM Working Papers comprises a series of publications published by the Information and Knowledge Management (IKM) Research Programme. Some IKM Working Papers are written by IKM Programme members, others have been commissioned from leading experts in a given field. The content may not necessarily be the view or position of the IKM Emergent Research Programme. IKM Working Papers are published and distributed
References: Krohwinkel-Karlsson A. (2007) Knowledge and learning in aid organizations. SADEV Working Paper 2007:1. www.sadev.se/. Uploads/Files/116.pdf Leormans, J IKM Background Paper series Sarah Cummings (2008) IKM Emergent Communications Strategy, IKM Background Paper, December 2008, 45pp