Beyond Boundaries: Leveraging No-Code Solutions for Industry Innovation
Knowledge management, communication and e-extension in the LIVES project
1. Knowledge management, communication
and e-extension in the LIVES project
Fanos Mekonnen, Knowledge Management and Communications Expert
LIVES Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop
Addis Ababa, 21–24 January 2013
2. Knowledge
• Is information and data
• Could be explicit or tacit
• Could be individual or
collective/ organizational
• May come in different
formats
3. Knowledge Management
The right knowledge
In the right place
At the right time
Two types of Knowledge Management
• Personal knowledge management
• Organizational knowledge management
4. The Five Focus areas of LIVES
1. Commodity value chain development
2. Capacity Development
3. Knowledge Management and Learning
4. Monitoring and Documentation
5. Promotion and Scaling out
6. Strategic approach to KM in LIVES
1. What knowledge to capture, store & share
2. With whom to share
3. How to share
4. When and where to share
5. How to measure impact of Knowledge sharing
7. Planned KM and Comms in LIVES
1. Agricultural Knowledge centers
2. Online platforms
3. Offline platforms
4. E- extension use of ICTs (E-
readers, videos, Cellphone,….)
5. Training, coaching, skills development
18. 4. Training, Coaching, skill development
Improved capacity to value chain actors
(producers, suppliers, service providers )
– Training farmers, Das, input
suppliers, processors…..
– guidelines on production
technology, market assessment, extension
service provision,
19. Public extension and advisory staff
capacity at LIVES district
Amhara district
staff SNNP district staff
463 78
974
Total district staff 750
1089
3082
BSc & Above Below BSc
Oromia district Tigray district staff
staff 332
216
574
784
20. Training, coaching, skills development
• BSc/ MSc studies
• On job training
for practical skills
development
21. At the end of the LIVES project….
1. Strengthened knowledge sharing and learning
processes
• knowledge and information is packed in different
formats that are appropriate to the needs and
interest of its stakeholders, and thus have
greater utility
• Enhanced staff capacity on knowledge sharing
and learning
22. At the end of the LIVES project….
2. Increased impact of the project’s
intervention, research and capacity development
activities
Greater engagement, linkage
and collaboration of partners.
Facilitate evidence based
decision making on Livestock
and irrigated value chains
development
23. At the end of the LIVES project….
3. KM and communication approaches, methods
and tools are tested, proved and taken up to be
institutionalized
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