Knowledge Management Support for Europe and the CIS

KM Support for ECIS
Geographical focus: Europe & CIS
Project ID: 59631
Award ID: 49095
Duration: 2008 to 2010
Status: under implementation
Lead organization: UNDP/BRC
Funding:

Budget: $450,000.00

Objectives;
Situation Analysis;
Strategy;
(Expected) Results / Outcome;
Major activities

The objective of the Knowledge Management (KM) efforts in the Europe and the CIS is to support the achievement of UNDP’s development agenda in the region, specifically to enable UNDP to work in a more networked and collaborative fashion, where people’s knowledge and practical experiences are leveraged to the fullest extent, with the lowest transaction costs, and as easily as possible. This should be done by building on existing experience in the region and across UNDP, which showed the success of communities of practice and networking of professionals, the strengths and weaknesses of knowledge codification and dissemination, as well as the development of new tools and methods in support of KM.

In the past several years, the PSPD in the Bratislava Regional Centre managed to integrate key knowledge management activities into every-day practice work to ensure KM is everyone’s business. As such, the role of KM at the regional level is to work with practices to ensure these elements are constantly present and strengthened, offer support and capacity building for the communities of practice, and ensure cross-practice fertilization.

Project Output: Practitioners’ capacities in the region increased to understand and apply existing relevant knowledge and experience for more efficient and quality programming.  
 
The project will aim at achieving this through the following activities:
Activity 1: Support regional and sub-regional Community of Practice development
Activity 2: Support the development and dissemination of knowledge and experience through enhanced communication, strengthened knowledge products and publications
Activity 3: Develop and promote tools in support of KM

When implementing these activities, the following principles will prevail:

  • Service orientation responding to demands of beneficiaries and clients;
  • Support activities that have sub-regional or regional impact
  • Support activities that can be replicable and applicable in other countries/sub-regions
  • Support activities and way that are innovative and that support active involvement of practitioners
Focal point

Agi Veres

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