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This blog proposes a conceptual approach that can used as a starting
point to contextualize knowledge for development initiatives in international
organizations and other types of non-profit organizations interested in
knowledge for development to unlock development complexity in the areas where
development efforts are still having
resistance.
Knowledge Producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector as
well as Organizational knowledge leaders, development knowledge leader,
knowledge managers and consultants involved in creating and implementing
knowledge for development initiatives aimed at development process improvements
in international development organizations context could benefit from the
reflections and learning insights from this blog.
The integration, the transfer and the alignment of available knowledge
for development, strategies, concepts and methods into development processes
and communities practices (client knowledge) is a pressing
and challenging research issue today. This is required to change
development policies, people’s mindset, development approaches, and capacity
building of the local people to handle at a certain point their own problem and
understand what issues lead to poverty as well as undertaking innovative
research on specific development issues, developing key partnerships to expand
knowledge exchange (e.g. academia, experts, civil societies etc.), combining a
global perspective with local knowledge, better interaction directly with
clients to determine knowledge needs, helping countries address their own
development challenges and match them with relevant global practices,
disseminating good practice to different audiences, facilitating global
partnerships and knowledge exchange, connecting, involving, drawing from
existing research, data and expertise etc.
Development researches and practitioners as well as Knowledge producer ,
Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector in the areas of process and
knowledge for development alike seek for solutions that aid the flexible
alignment of knowledge for development efforts to development’s most value
generating activities that enable the eradication for Extreme Poverty, and for
promoting shared prosperity where development efforts are stilled mysterious.
The advantages inherent in such efforts are variable. The execution of
sustainable development processes is supported from a knowledge perspective,
the economic, politic, the moral, cultural, social, public and environmental
benefit of knowledge for development can be illustrated more easily and
knowledge for development activities become "alive" because of it
well integration in development processes - which in turn thrives sustainable
development performance.
Development researches and practitioners have to work more with
Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector, partners to help
identify why, what and how they can most effectively mobilize knowledge to
influence social, economic, environment and change. They have to support local
partners to identify and measure desired outcomes, understand the nature of local
knowledge context, and the key people and organizations they need to be
engaging with, and the Why? | What? | How?
In order to align knowledge for development efforts to development’s
most value generating activities that enable the eradication for Extreme
Poverty, and for promoting shared prosperity, development practitioners, Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector, and partners need to
understand what the knowledge management for development (the business
knowledge, the knowledge for development, client knowledge)
Fig.1
The three components of knowledge Management for development
- and individuals (stakeholders, publics, private, government, civil
societies and communities) are in any given context, and how they relate to
each other and influence social and environmental challenge and change.
Development practitioners as well as Knowledge
producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector have to develop a strategy
which identified approaches to understand the local context, the current
knowledge on practices and preferences, to introduce new practical knowledge
into communities’ practices, to support global partnerships, knowledge exchange
, knowledge -sharing and learning for the eradication of extreme poverty, and
for promoting shared prosperity.
Effective
development practices must recognize when the timing is appropriate to make
investments in knowledge strategy (people, platforms and infrastructures) which
identified approaches to support knowledge-sharing and learning to enable the
development practices to deliver on its growth objectives. This practices
should include declarative knowledge (e.g., basic development emergency
solution routines and operating procedures), procedural knowledge (e.g.,
instructions from Development practitioners, Knowledge
producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector, actual knowledge
practice, and learning) and conditional knowledge (e.g., observation and development
of a specific knowledge for development involving direct interactions with
target communities) and others relevant knowledge exchanges and operation
strategies.
Development
practitioners as well as Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge
connector should combine and apply the various knowledge types in development
practice to assess comprehensively each local development’s condition and
administer effective development solutions.
Knowing
the Why? | What? | How? to understand the current knowledge on practices,
preferences and migrate into the future knowledge practices in complex regions
that resist to development efforts (e.g. Africa) requires a more comprehensive
understanding of the process of becoming knowledge focused, demand for evidence
and how knowledge for development can understand and address the local
situation, while taking advantage of investments in global and local knowledge
for development strategy.
Fig.2 Pragmatic bottom-up and top down approach to research and distribute knowledge
for development across various regions
Adopting
a pragmatic bottom-up and top down approach- to develop research syntheses
products, policy briefs and thematic guides, which present diverse perspectives
on key development issues (e.g. undertaking innovative research on
specific development issues, developing key partnerships to expand knowledge
frontier (e.g. academia, experts, civil societies etc.), combining a global
perspective with local knowledge, better interaction directly with clients to
determine knowledge needs, helping countries address their own development
challenges and match them with relevant global practices, disseminating good
practice to different audiences, facilitating global partnerships and knowledge
exchange, connecting, involving drawing
from existing research, data and expertise etc.).
This
bottom-up and top down approach explores the structure of an integrated
knowledge for development strategy in international organizations and the
dynamic interactions between local and global stakeholders to share research
and knowledge about development using various repackage knowledge formats that
are accessible to local community practices, policymakers and practitioners
etc.
It
also demonstrates a description overview to classify and to deliver various knowledge
for development´s products and to contextualize knowledge for development
initiatives in international organizations.
Fig.3
Delivery processes of knowledge for development
The
Knowledge for development in the form of framework, developed as part of the
study, helped understand contextual issues facing the international
organizations and the strategic Knowledge for development systems proposed and
implemented - visit
A
good way to address a delivery structure and description - a record of
exploration and delivering hierarchies that supports the translation of
evidence into action. Providing access to
research evidence is not enough to unlock the development complexity.
Why? | What? | How?
Despite
abundant human capital, land, mineral resources cultural contributions and
progresses to name a few things Africa remains poor. Getting a clear and deep
sense of why and what (Demand of evidence) is happening there before the how (the translating of the acquired
evidence into action/practice) may be the key to unlock Africa development
complexity. If it is well done the Why? |
What? | How? in knowledge for development can unlock
the key to the mystery of development of the Africa.
Knowledge
for development have to undertake the right strategies to understand how people
working at local and national development policy levels access and engage with
the local evidence, local mentality, behaviors, culture, environment,
information especially in the context of local sustainable development (the
well-being of all).
At the same time, it's important to understand the specific local
practices we are concerned with. The practices endorsed by the geography, the
culture, the history and others social, human and environmental factors. Understanding and listening to by knowledge producers, governments and donors etc.
could help to well design, to produce, to package, to deliver and to support
with elegance and simplicity a practical knowledge package for development into
a foreign community practices.
The crucial mission of Why? | What? | How? in Knowledge for Development is to help local community of practices,
development policymakers, development practitioners, Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector etc., to understand,
identify and align trends and opportunities that guarantee and support the
eradication of extreme poverty, and for promoting shared prosperity where
development efforts are still having resistances.
Why?
Why?
This
step helps to listen and understand the local context, the situation, the
challenge development practitioners are facing, and the need of adequate interventions
or solutions.
The
why step allows development practitioners as well as Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector to move from concrete observations of the
happenings of a particular situation to the more abstract potential emotions
and motives that are at play in the situation they are trying to listen,
observe and understand.
For
example, why despite abundant human capital, land, mineral resources, cultural
contributions, progresses, to name a few things Africa remains so poor? Why
some are so rich and some are so poor? Why is the persons we are helping doing
what they’re doing, and in the particular way that they are doing it? Why
development efforts are sabotaged? Why are they so corrupted? A few many why
questions, it depends.
This step is a particularly powerful technique to leverage when analysing development intervention that development practitioners as well as Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector have taken into the field, both for synthesis purposes, and to direct development issues and challenges to future areas of need finding.
What?
This
step helps to design a solution and delivery strategy that result from the
first step, the why step.
For
example what we need to do to help them help themselves? What to do to reduce
the corruption? What to do to avoid social exclusion? What to do to avoid that
those development efforts are not sabotaged? A few many what questions, it
depends.
The
design and the delivery strategy should include these three parameters: 1.
Inclusion Management in all phases of the intervention. 2. Sociocultural
Infrastructures (Physical/soft) that enable the development and the support of
the intervention. 3. Knowledge transfer and Change Management that enable
efficient management and the exploitation of the intervention on the target
site after the intervention exits for maintaining sustainability.
Fig4. The three pillars of development intervention for maintaining sustainability
This is a particularly
powerful technique to leverage the design of a
solution and delivery strategy of a development intervention
that development practitioners as well as Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector
have taken into the field, both for synthesis purposes, and
to direct development issues and challenges to
future areas of need finding for maintaining sustainability.
How?
This step helps to plan
implementation of the solution, to develop and deliver, to measure and monitor,
learn, train on the target site, that result from the second step, the what step. This step
requires great design and social engineering talent.
For
example, how helping poor people to help themselves by the access to the right
economic, social, public and cultural infrastructures and the related knowledge
management and transfer that affect and endorse their daily lives and
activities wherever they are living? How to secure local market for competitive
advantage in production, consummation, and investment? How to develop local
industries for job development? How
promoting sector reform, improve governance, and the development of
country-owned roadmaps? How assisting
countries in developing sustainable financing strategies to implement
large-scale programs? How to avoid the politicization of development arena to
have more positive impact? How providing capacity-building support to both
regional and national policymakers and service providers? A few many how
questions, it depends.
Development
team (development practitioners, Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, Knowledge connector etc.) will challenge implantation solution and delivery intervention status
quo by using right designs and prioritizing simple end beneficiaries needs and
experiences to move an external knowledge solution into foreign community
practices without destroy the available local knowledge and with the respect of
the target environment.
This step
is a particularly powerful technique to leverage the implementation of the
solution, to develop and deliver, to measure and monitor, learn, train on development intervention that development practitioners have
taken into the field, both for synthesis purposes, and to direct development
issues and challenges to future areas of need finding for maintaining
intervention satisfaction and it sustainability into a foreign community practices.
Conclusion
The “Why? ” is our reason for existing, the higher cause we believe in, and the big development problem/challenge we want to solve. I think that the Why? | What? | How? Model could help individuals, development practitioners, Knowledge producer, Knowledge customizer, and Knowledge connector to unlock development complexity, to better engage with policy and practice in an effort to be more productive and effective in reducing poverty, shared prosperity, improving human wellbeing and enhancing social justice in development regions that always resist to development efforts. This model is a master key that can be used everywhere while facing complex challenges or problems.
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*Author, Amouzou Bedi (Expertise and knowledge of the science management and its cultural implications in the developed and developing world in particular), contact on LinkedIn. I will try to update this paper on a regular basis if a need arises. Please if you have a suggestion (how we can better this framework) and feedback with regards to this work please feel free to share this. Many thanks for taking your time to read this paper.
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