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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!