Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Knowledge Sharing Practice: The Case of Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) Bridget Leigh Snell and Yukika Awazu Oxfam America

Agenda 1.Oxfam America’s Knowledge and Learning Practice 2.Case 1: The Program-level Knowledge Practice – The Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) 3.Case 2: The Enterprise Level Knowledge Sharing Practice – Knowledge Strategy 1: Technology-enabled Knowledge Sharing (AIR Share Webinar) – Knowledge Strategy 2: The Knowledge Assessment Tools 4.Challenges and Opportunities 5.Two Wicked Questions! 2 World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

Building a systematic approach for Oxfam’s Knowledge and Learning Practice World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, Relational Ontology Practice- based Research

4World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012 The Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) Program-level Knowledge Practice AIR as an International Development Knowledge Practice Mobilizing knowledge and learning processes Making use and making sense of data Creating equal space

3-Year Impact Evaluation Annual Impact Reflection Yr Annual Review Yr International Development Programming a knowledge & learning system Year 1 Year 3 10 – 15 year Program Strategy Paper 3 – year. Program Implement Joint Planning Coordinated Action Public Retrospection 5 Managed by a Program Working Group World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012 Shared Meaning

Knowledge Strategy 1: Technology-enabled knowledge sharing (AIR Webinar) World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, An Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Practice Explicit and Tacit Knowledge Sharing Shared Experience Multi-lingual Commitment to Act Multi-geography Multiple time zones Shared Understanding

Knowledge Strategy 2: The Knowledge Assessment Tools 7 ReadinessUsabilityEffectiveness Are we ready? Environment Preparedness Contents preparedness How are we doing? Practice-based Scenarios Sociomaterial View of Technology So what? Project Outcome Knowledge Process Outcome World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012 The Holistic Approach

Key Challenges and Opportunities Challenges Engaging complex, diverse, distributed, and situated nature of multi-stakeholders Practicing sustainable knowledge-based relationships and networks Implementing systematic practices for repeatable processes Opportunities Building partner and regional capacities for learning Building collaborative extended network relationships Developing a model for sustainable co-participatory learning practice 8 World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

Wicked Questions 1.How can we build organizational appreciation and investment for knowledge sharing practice that values various sources of knowledge in international development practice - not just expert or indigenous/local knowledge? 2.What is the secret recipe to design truly interactive spaces for knowledge sharing, across language, geography and time? 9 World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

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