Knowledge management Training workshop

Tentative dates: June 26-29, 2011

Venue: Cairo – Egypt

Languages: English and French

Target participants: (35 participants) Middle level management and project managers in the Ministries of agriculture and rural development and from different developmental projects; researchers and NGOs (farmers’ cooperatives and associations) from 10 countries in the MENA region: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Sudan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen.  

Lead experts:

·         International experts: Ms Lucie Lamoureux, and Ms Shalini Kala

·         The training relied on the ENRAP expertise for database management and experience in training.

·         Regional facilitator: Mr Ziad Moussa

·         National experts will take part in this training

Workshop overview

Knowledge management (KM) in the context of KariaNet serves to bring justice to the rural poor and small-scale farmers in terms of food security and poverty alleviation. Poverty alleviation is a challenge especially in our part of the world and KariaNet, as a project, aims to contributing to its achievement by enhancing the effectiveness of poverty reduction developmental projects. One of the project’s main objectives is to improve competencies and capacities at both National and Regional level as an entry point to better knowledge management along the rural development.  Capacity building, research, knowledge sharing (KS) and networking constitute the building blocks for an effective knowledge management that can support and promote a significant learning culture, scale up innovations and influence pro-poor policy reforms through KM and KS.

The concept of the training was revisited after the start-up workshop and from the needs’ assessment results; it was redesigned to be a series of adaptive-learning platforms to capacitate the diverse stakeholders involved in knowledge management. The first platform was an introductory hands-on and contextualized exercise.

The training was based on different modules in which knowledge management approaches are introduced: (i) generating and sharing lessons learned, case studies and good practices, (ii) capturing and disseminating lessons learned, case studies and good practices, (iii) planning, reflecting and learning, (iv) building and leveraging relationships and networks, (v) designing and facilitating better meetings and workshops, and finally (vi) strengthening and sustaining knowledge.

Plenary sessions were kept to a minimum and the training content is based on the participants’ experiences tackling the most useful KM-KS tools. The training is “learning by doing” at its best taking into account the regional context.

The objectives of the training:

1.      To define and share state-of-the-art concepts and tools of knowledge management and knowledge sharing in an interactive platform.

2.      To build on previous and future activities to cement networking possibilities between members.

3.      To extract the need of the next training on KM-KS.

4.      Contribute in the creation of a critical mass of experts in KM-KS to sustain KariaNet.

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