The objective of this paper is to respond to the angoisse - at the end of the day, we can say we provided practical knowledge, we achieved results, however no one is happy and the solution becomes unsustainable  - A situation that makes development delivery complex and unconfortable.

Climate Change, Tourism, and Freshwater Management in the Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park, Nepal

Alton C. Byers, Ph.D.

The Mountain Institute

High Mountain Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)

The 1113 km² Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Bufer Zone is located in northeastern Nepal in the Solu Khumbu District of Sagarmatha Zone.  The park is roughly triangular in shape…

Dear KM4Dev Members, 

Here is the first Case Study for Week 1. This case is provided by CONDESAN, which was founded in 1993 and has since consolidated its position as an important platform for issues related to natural resource management and sustainable development in the Andean region, particularly in water and watershed management. CONDESAN generates and shares information and knowledge about natural…

Felipe Custer, Sep 24, 2013, Case 2: Integrated Water Management of Muylo Mullucro catchment, Tarma, Peru

I. Basin overview

Location: The micro Muylo - Mullucro are located in the district of Tarma , Tarma province and department of Junin, Peru . Both watersheds are located in the upper river basin Tarma . The access road from Tarma is by dirt road for a stretch of 14 kms…

Dear KM4Dev Members, 

Dear KM4Dev Members,

On behalf of Dr. Alejandro Camino, Founder of HimalAndes Initiative, I am pleased to share below the foreword for the focused conversation titled:  „Knowledge Sharing…

Everyone knows that Knowledge is the main key of success. For an effective organization, it is very much needed to build up knowledge management unit into the organization.  It helps increasing knowledge of its members and employees. By sharing knowledge with one another and with other organizations all em…

By: Anne Sophie Lambert, Associate Director

Thomas Jefferson once said, “We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant’s books, so that every member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend them, to investigate abuses, and consequently to control them.”

Last week, I attended the nation’s…

"Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it."

Etienne Wenger, co-creator of the concept of Communities of Practice

By: Yasmin Anis, Accountability Lab Summer Resident.

This summer, Accountability Lab Liberia helped organize and lead a series of training sessions to help Liberian youth better understand the concept of accountability and their related rights and…

Dear KM4Dev Colleagues,

I am glad to contact you regarding the upcoming Focused Conversation, titled: “Knowledge Sharing around water management innovations in the Andes and Himalayas”. This focused conversation is an KM4Dev project which opens a space to share lessons learnt by communities in both mountain regions around innovative solutions on water…

Dear all,

SIRIS Academic, an academic consultancy which works in Higher Education, Research and Knowledge Management, is launching a PhD program in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia (Spain) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). The PhD student will be involved in a mid-long term project on the creation of a Knowledge Hub in Central Asia between researchers (Universities) and practitioners (NGO's,…

Blogging has been one of the umost important activities in my life as knowledge worker over the past five to six years, both for personal knowledge management (to process my thoughts, curate information and analyse my work and surrounding) as for wider knowledge sharing with other individuals and institutions.

I would encourage anyone to start blogging if they haven't done so yet, and to see for themselves. However it takes some time and tips can help, so I compiled this overview of…

The African Men for Sexual Health and Rights [AMSHeR] wishes to appoint a suitable qualified individual…

Job opportunity with the new Knowledge Gateway on Women's Economic Empowerment @Empower_Women by @UN_Women! Great team & a very interesting portfolio on gender & Knowledge Management http://bit.ly/16HwNzm

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is offering a consultancy opportunity in digital communication.

Duty station: Lyon, France

 …

Dear all,

CARE Nepal is looking for consultant  for Video Documentary. Interest individual/firm are requested to go through attached RfP and ToR for further details.

Thank you,

Roshani

RfP_Video%20Documentary.pdf…

By Yasmin Anis, Accountability Lab Summer Resident

As the Lab has written about previously, Liberia under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has made considerable progress in terms of development and governance- from dismissing tainted civil servants, to enforcing transparency, to pushing through new strategies and legislation to address graft. Against a…

Dear all

There is an exciting consultancy opportunity in CARE Nepal's  EMPHASIS Project for it's 'Endline Survey and Evalution'. Detail ToR is attached here for your reference.

RfP%20-%20Endline.pdf…

The Campbell Collaboration's  International Development Coordinating Group is an international network of researchers,  policy makers and practitioners who are interested in systematic reviews for better evidence-based international development policy and practice.



The Group prepares, updates and disseminates systematic reviews of high policy-relevance with a dedicated focus on social and…