capacity strengthening and knowledge managemen: the way ahead for ciat

Agricultura Eco-Eficiente para Reducir la Pobreza

Capacity Strengthening and Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management: The Way Ahead for CIATThe Way Ahead for CIAT

Capacity Strengthening and Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management: The Way Ahead for CIATThe Way Ahead for CIAT

Simone Staiger-Rivas, Leader Capacity Initiative, CIAT


1. Impact2. Knowledge Management3. Capacity Strengthening4. Our Initiative – Challenges ahead

OutlineOutline

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The same old impact songThe same old impact song

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Impact throughImpact through

• High Quality Eco-efficient Science

• Policy Influence

• Capacity Strengthening

• …….

Share knowledge with decision makers: Scientists, farmers, policy makers, entrepreneurs.


Knowledge ManagementKnowledge Management

Overarching Principle:Stakeholder Engagement


Stakeholder EngagementStakeholder Engagement

• Continuous engagement of next and end users as a sine qua non condition for maximizing research adoption.

• Research delivery for adoption = use, reuse, adaptation, combination with other solutions.


• Open Access• Facilitate Participation• Monitor and Evaluate • Document• Strategize the Web

Stakeholder Engagement: How?Stakeholder Engagement: How?


Open AccessOpen Access

• JournalsPre-prints (Library)

• BroadbandUniversity Networks (IT)

• Social media, collaborative toolsCIAT Web (Comms)


• From the inside out: Everything starts within the team• No participation without purposes:

• Decision making I have no convincing example!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Planning togetherCRP consultations

• PrioritizationGFAR

• Create institutional memoryConvenio “Meeting of the Oldies”

Facilitate participationFacilitate participation


DocumentDocument

• The process stuff• Stakeholder engagement around what?

• Vision, MissionCGIAR working groups

• InformationOpen House

• DataGene banks, GIS

• Content for effective communication


Strategize the WebStrategize the Web• Product versus process to product

Capacity blog, LAC Biosafety (forthcoming)

• The issue of the issues Dapa blog, CIAT blog

• Multiple tools for engagement Wikis, Blogs, Facebook, pdfs,

Google sites• The end of the intranet

Has to come• Social media, collaborative tools

Accessible to all: We can all be promoters of CIAT


Capacity StrengtheningCapacity Strengthening

Overarching Principle:Learning


LearningLearning

• The “before, during, after”• Self-directed learning• Learning by doing• Action research• Learning loops: Information for decision

making, trial and error, conclusions, next decision…


Learning: How?Learning: How?

• Training• Alliances• Networks • Participatory M&E• Public-Private

Partnerships


Learning: How?Learning: How?

We have multiple excellent tools. How do we make more out of it?

• Internal integration• Marketing • Training• Partnerships


Regional Capacity Strengthening Regional Capacity Strengthening PlatformsPlatforms

• Learning in partnership• Are we building on CIAT’s strengths?• Seeds: Are we coherent with current

research proposals? • Intellectual Property: Is CIAT equipped? • Participatory Research; Knowledge

Management: Is there a demand?


TrainingTraining

• Strategic partnerships• Development, availability, promotion of

training materials• Monitoring and Evaluation of training

activities. Impact assessment• Regional integration and collaboration• Visiting researchers: They are not a cheap task

force


CIAT’s Capacity Strengthening and CIAT’s Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management Initiative Knowledge Management Initiative

Putting Research into Use


ACTIVITY Detail No. PEOPLE TOTAL Specialized Courses organized

Virology 5

50

Clayuca 6

Diva – gis 11

Genetic Resources 8

Network Mapping 16

DAPA 4

Visiting Researchers administrated

Individual training 28 51Tesis MSc 12

Tesis PhD 11

Seeds Workshop org. and facilitated Workshop 40 104Open House organized Special Event 64

Capacity Blog published Unique Visitors 1450 1450

Start-up Knowledge around “Convenio”

Teams and workshops 90 90

Presentations held at Conferences KM SICTA Nicaragua 30

350KMIC, Washington, US 50

KM, Bogotá, Colombia 200

MADR, Bogotá, Colombia 50

Visitors 20

Training held Network Mapping 1676Storytelling 40

Web SEO 20

January-June 2011: January-June 2011: Over 2,100 People Reached Over 2,100 People Reached


The TeamThe Team

• Sophie Alvarez, Consultant, M&E• Wilson Celemin, Administration• Flávia Cunha, Consultant, social communicator,

Amazon Initiative • Eleonora Izquierdo, Visiting researchers HQ• Carlos Arturo Quiroz, Agricultural engineer

specialized in participatory research• Simone Staiger-Rivas, Leader• Paola Andrea Victoria, Convenio


Publications 2010-2011Publications 2010-2011• Share Fair Case studies (forthcoming)• Staiger-Rivas, S.; Salokhe G.; Smith, J.; Jordan, T.; Palmieri, V. 2010: A

Knowledge Share Fair and a KM4Dev meeting in Colombia, May 2010: involving people in a rich environment of dialogue, Km4Dev Journal, Volume 6, Issue 2 September 2010, pages 151 – 158

• Alvarez, S.; Staiger-Rivas, S.; Tehelen, K.; Garcia, C. X.; Manners, G.; Biermayr-Jenzano, P. Demand Analysis Report: Gender-Responsive Participatory Research. CIAT, 2010.

• Alvarez, S.; Staiger-Rivas, S.; Tehelen, K.; Garcia, C. X.; Manners, G.; Biermayr-Jenzano, P. Workshop on Repositioning Gender-Responsive Participatory Research in Times of Change: Final Report. CIAT, 2010.

• Barr, A., Alvarez, S., Douthwaite, B., Tehelen, K. 2009. Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are a by-product of the network broking process?


Thank YouThank You

We have our own Perspectives.

Let’s suspend Judgment,

And find the common ground,

That enables us to

See the same picture

Photo: Neil Palmer, CIAT

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