Knowledge Management for Development Effectiveness

Temi AbimbolaManager

THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

(EADI)Program Design and Development Division (EADI.1)

Outline

• What are we aiming to achieve

• What are we actually doing?

• What are the lessons learnt?

• And so what??

African Development Bank

Enhancing the Capacity of the Bank’s Operations and Regional Member Countries in Project &

Program Implementation

Capacity Development Strategy (CDS 2010-2014)

African Development InstituteThe Bank’s Focal Point for Capacity Development

What are We Doing for Capacity Enhancement?

Enhancing the Capacity of the Bank’s Operations and Regional Member Countries in Project & Program Implementation

 

PPP

Project Mang. For Bank Staff

Standards on Financial Economic

Analysis

Results Based M&E and MfDR

Training of Trainers on Project

Mang.

COSTABFarmrod

LogFrame

Public Financial Management

Da Vinci’s ‘Helical Air Screw’

Charles Babbage: Difference Engine No. 1

Lessons Learnt: Conventional vs Pluralist

• Scientific Knowledge

• discplined experimentation leading to untainted objective error free– What about social

conception and practices?

• Several different kind of human knowledge– Interaction of the

organization and its environment

– Quasi Scientific

– Experiential +practical

– ‘Organizational routine practices’

Social Learning Cycle

• Quasi-Scientific

• Explicit vs Tacit (pluralist)

• Abstraction, codification, and diffusion (pluralist)

Smallest Big Idea(s)!• Ideas are plentiful

• Ideas need to be made explicit and communicated to others in ways that they can use if the organization is to be successful.– Hence the need for practices for maximizing the

value that the organization can gain from its ideas and knowledge.

Thank you!