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Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Knowledge Sharing Practice: The Case of Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) Bridget Leigh Snell and Yukika Awazu Oxfam America
Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Knowledge Sharing Practice: The Case of Annual
Impact Reflection (AIR)
Bridget Leigh Snell and Yukika AwazuOxfam America
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Agenda
1. Oxfam America’s Knowledge and Learning Practice2. 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 Opportunities5. Two Wicked Questions!
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Building a systematic approach for Oxfam’s Knowledge and Learning Practice
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Relational Ontology
Practice-based Research
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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
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3-Year Impact
EvaluationAnnual Impact
ReflectionYr. 1 - 3
Annual ReviewYr. 1 - 3
International Development Programminga knowledge & learning system
Year 1 Year 3
10 – 15 year
Program Strategy
Paper
3 – year.Program
Implement
Joint Planning
Coordinated Action
Public Retrospection
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Managed by a Program Working Group
Shared Meaning
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• Knowledge Strategy 1: Technology-enabled knowledge sharing (AIR Webinar)
An Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Practice
Explicit and Tacit Knowledge Sharing
Shared Experience
Multi-lingual Commitment to Act
Multi-geographyMultiple time zones
Shared Understanding
Knowledge Strategy 2: The Knowledge Assessment Tools
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Readiness Usability Effectiveness
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
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The Holistic Approach
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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
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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?
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Please contact @Bridget Leigh Snell ([email protected])
Yukika Awazu ([email protected])
Thank you!
