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Knowledge management for anti-corruption


Examples of knowledge management and knowledge sharing activities

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If an organisation has no mechanisms for sharing effectively within
the office, the wider organisation or with partner organisations,
or worse, if it cannot learn from the experience of others,
how then can we expect it to learn from and share with partners in the South?


The list below contains examples of learning and knowledge management that have been introduced in development agencies. Few of these have purposely been tried in the anti-corruption community. Many have however been tried and tested long before anyone spoke of knowledge management in development.

It seems that some of the initiatives listed have been set up to catch tacit and manage codified knowledge. Some of the learning activities are taking place within organisations while other focuse on external audiences. We say nothing of the effects these initiatives have had within the organisation. Those seeking more knowledge should have a look at the knowledge management toolbox.

List of activity examples

  • Setting up a dedicated KM secretariat
  • Mentoring and on the job training
  • Mixed age mission teams
  • Human resource policies to recruit staff with KM skills
  • Include KM and learning competencies in all job descriptions
  • Staff appraisals and performance reviews
  • Staff training on publications and facilitation (also in-country)
  • Mapping of competency inside and outside the organisation "who knows what"
  • Make KM skills a part of performance reviews of staff
  • Social gatherings, coffee mornings, guest speaker lunches, brown bag lunches
  • Setting up a knowledge-based project cycle
  • Evaluations and impact assessments
  • Reorientation of planning and evaluation process towards capturing lessons learned
  • Learning reviews after major events
  • Team appraisals to look at performance over the past months
  • Trip reports
  • Exit interviews
  • Internal and external (formal and informal) sectoral, thematic, and methodological networks and focus groups
  • Internal discussion forums, panels, workshops and roundtables, interdisciplinary staff seminars, web casts
  • Conferences
  • Make "how-to notes" or info briefs on key themes and processes
  • Newsletters, publications of different sorts
  • Helpdesks
  • Joint venture and partnerships
  • Internet site
  • Intranet site
  • Collaboration site (like www.u4.no)
  • Knowledge networks (like www.eldis.org)
  • Electronic lessons database
  • Shared drives (by group but not across the whole agency)
  • Stories database, some times even a stories gathering team

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Harald Mathisen
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SEE ALSO

Sharing Information and Knowledge to Fight Corruption
- Challenges and Opportunities. pdf

In spite of enormous efforts by government, business and civil society to share knowledge, much useful and sometimes critical information and knowledge remains untapped by experts, the public and other stakeholders. The session therefore sought to explore the challenges and opportunities for gathering and sharing information and knowledge within, between, and beyond individuals and organizations.

 
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