Guest Lecture for the 'Global health and the SDGs' Batchelor course at University College Utrecht, delivered on Monday 19 February 2018.

1. Knowledge translation and the
SDGs
Sarah Cummings
Knowledge Ecologist & VU University Amsterdam &
Knowledge for Development Partnership
Monday 19 February 2018
Global Health and the SDGs
Spring Semester 2018

2.  Introduction (5 minutes)
 Discussion of the article ‘The missing ingredient’
(15 minutes)
 Introduction to the Agenda Knowledge for
Development – and questions (15 minutes)
 Group work – developing a joint statement (15
minutes, two rounds)
 Reporting in plenary
 Conclusions and follow-up
Overview

3.  Knowledge translation is my business…
 Knowledge management for development (KM4D
and KM4Dev), knowledge brokering and knowledge
for development
 Social entrepreneur creating social and economic
value
 Researcher – consultant – writer focusing on
inequalities as they relate to knowledge
 PhD on local knowledge for sustainable development
Introduction

5. Table 3.3 Gender representation on editorial boards
Male Female Total
No % No % No %
Economic Development and Cultural Change 15 88.2 2 11.8 17 100.0
Journal of Development Studies 33 82.5 7 15.5 40 100.0
Development and Change 31 64.6 17 35.4 48 100.0
World Development 23 74.2 8 25.8 31 100.0
Third World Quarterly 28 82.4 6 17.6 34 100.0
Canadian Journal of Development Studies 37 68.5 17 31.5 54 100.0
Development Policy Review 20 54.1 7 25.9 27 100.0
Journal of International Development 11 50.0 11 50.0 22 100.0
European Journal of Development Research 17 70.8 7 29.2 24 100.0
Progress in Development Studies 26 81.3 6 18.8 32 100.0
231 70.2 98 29.8 329 100.0
Representation of academics from developing countries as
authors and editorial board members in scientific journals: does
this matter to the field of development studies?

6. Article: The missing ingredient
 Agenda 2030 is probably the most important policy
document
 Social, economic and environmental aspects of sustainable
development
 Knowledge is absent (and it prioritises scientific and
technical knowledge)
 UN, civil society and academics are addressing this
problem
 Local knowledge and universities are marginalised while
ICTs and the private sector are emphasized

7. Knowledge cultures as a nested system (Valerie Brown, 2011: 125)

8. Designed to complement Agenda 2030 from perspective
of knowledge
Created collaboratively over 2 year period
Launched at Global Knowledge Partnership Conference,
April 2017
13 Knowledge Development Goals with 3-7 targets each
73 individual statements from UN policymakers,
academics, KM professionals and students
Michel Mordasini and Ashwani Muthoo (IFAD), Irina
Bokova (UNESCO), Petru Dumitriu (JIU) and others
Agenda Knowledge for
Development

9.  Goal 1: Pluralistic, diverse and inclusive knowledge
societies
 Goal 2: People-focused knowledge societies
 Goal 3: Strengthening local knowledge ecosystems
 Goal 4: Knowledge partnerships
 Goal 5: Knowledge cities and rural-urban linkages
 Goal 6: Improved knowledge strategies in development
organisations
Agenda Knowledge for
Development: 1

10.  Goal 7: Capture, preservation and democratisation of
knowledge
 Goal 8: Fair and dynamic knowledge markets – the importance of
the private sector
 Goal 9: Safety, security and sustainability
 Goal 10: Legal knowledge
 Goal 11: Improved knowledge competencies and knowledge
work
 Goal 12: Institutions of higher education to play an active role
 Goal 13: Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
for all
Agenda Knowledge for
Development: 2

11.  Important to put KM and knowledge into the SDG process
 Agenda Knowledge for Development still open to new insights
 New personal statements requested (400 words)
 Looking at 100+ statements
 What is still missing?
 Group work:
- Discussion of what areas still need to be addressed?
- Identify 5 priorities
- Discussion in different groups of these 5 priorities
Agenda Knowledge for
Development: 3

12.  Personal vision of knowledge, knowledge societies and
knowledge management
 400 words with portrait photograph
 Include 5 ‘best’ statements
 Criteria: well-written, originality and authenticity
 Students: Astrid Aune (p. 12), Virginia Cavedoni (p. 20),
Leah de Haan (p. 31), and Chris McMullan (p. 38)
 Composite: LSE students, p. 51
 E-mail: sarah.cummings@k4dp.org by 28 February
Statements