KM (and communication) at ILRI
Igniting ‘researching out loud’
for more effective development outcomes
Ewen Le Borgne
KM4Dev Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
21 June 2013

Principles
(KM without a strategy)

1. Open knowledge
2. Partners’ knowledge valued
3. Multi-purposed
4. Collecting, connecting, conversing
5. Face‐to‐face (and otherwise)
6. Joined up advocacy
7. Outcome-focused
8. Internal communication & M&E
9. Partnerships for impact (systemic capacity)
10.Innovative ICTs
Principles
(KM without a strategy)

KM pillars

KM pillars
Knowledge sharing and learning
Publishing
Translating outputs into
research, development and
policy outcomes, getting
knowledge into use
Internal communication
Communicating for wider influence and impact

Where is KM at ILRI?
Everywhere!

In managing information

In sharing knowledge

On social media
Around the corner
At the Zebu club
At bimonthly coffee mornings
At monthly seminars
At team meetings
In project workshops
In external workshops
At team retreats
In annual planning meetings

In learning

In our overall comms approach

In KMIS & Comms

In our projects

In our organisation,
Internally…
…and at its edges

In networks

Through
formal
training…

…And informal coaching

In our repositories

And in our people

We do have (many) challenges :/

But we see them as next
opportunities :D

Next opportunity #1
Big picture KM at big scale

Next opportunity #1
Big picture KM at big scale

Next opportunity #2
Monitoring and learning

Next opportunity #3
Changing attitudes

Next opportunity #4
Refining our approach in CGIAR and beyond
With sandboxes
and the like

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