Knowledge and communication in the Livestock and Fish Research Program: The first year

Knowledge and communication in the Livestock and Fish Research Program: The first year

Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)

Program Planning and Management Committee Meeting, Nairobi, 14 December 2012

Principles

• The knowledge we generate will be open and public • We value the knowledge of our clients and partners• We publish and communicate using multiple formats for multiple

purposes• We support knowledge collecting, connecting and conversing• Face to face communication is as important as other more explicit ‐ ‐

communication channels• Advocacy is everyone’s responsibility• Communication inextricably linked to outcomes• Internal communication is part of our communication strategy• Partnerships are the key to impact• We will innovate in the ways we share knowledge and use ICTs.

5 Areas of Intervention

Comms 4 VCD Comms tools, methodologies and approaches reinforce efforts of key actors within the 9 target value chains to identify and address innovation needs and to access and use appropriate technologies, institutional strategies and knowledge.

Comms for Tech Dev

The results/evidence of technology development activities are published as international public goods and adapted/transformed as required for optimal re-use by VCD partners

Program comms and learning

Partners in the Program are supported by and using a range of tailored communication and knowledge sharing tools, methodologies and approaches to deliver effective learning and communication within and across the Program

Comms 4 wider impact

Targeted stakeholders beyond the Program are aware of its focus, emerging results and insights, and they are encouraged and influenced by the evidence presented to take up, as necessary adapt and put the Program’s results into use.

Data Data collected and produced by the Program components is properly documented, archived and published to maximize its wide accessibility and re-use by others

Scope of activities

•Communicate for wider influence and impact – Reach and engage with and influence wide audiences

•Research for impact – Translate outputs into potential research, development and policy outcomes, get knowledge into use

•Knowledge sharing and learning – Enrich program/project learning, interaction and exchange

•Publishing – Capture and disseminate research products and outputs

• Internal communication – Link and connect teams

internal

Internalcommunication

FeedsGenetics HealthTargetGender

VN IN TZ UG ET ML EG NI

VCD

local

global

Connecting and powering value chain development

Enabling technology

development

Deal with data

Knowledge sharing and

learning across the program

Communicating for wider

influence and impact

external

Ambitions

Organize & disseminate

products

Translate outputs for

uptake

Facilitate processes,

engagement

Results• Tools set up and Workflows initiated

• Repository: http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/3112• Web site: http://livestockfish.cgiar.org• Workspace: http://livestock-fish.wikispaces.com• Calendar: http://livestock-fish.wikispaces.com/calendar• Communication space on Yammer

• Facilitating and documenting/communicating component planning activities (http://livestock-fish.wikispaces.com/events) • Workshop with WLE CRP on building blocks to organize knowledge and information for CRPs• Initial communication ‘templates’ and materials• ILRI and WF comms collaboration started• re-orienting from ‘center’ towards ‘program’

Numbers

web views 11,000 web posts 66 alert subscribers 176 products (program and projects) 125 wiki members 76 wiki views 17,000 wiki edits 1,139 meetings reported 34 yammer posts 75 yammer members 50

Up 300%

Evidence of Sharing?

Facilitation & reporting

Exchanging!

Weekly!

Working out loud!

• “bringing activities out of closed repositories and applications [and events and processes], and pulling them into the open increases the likelihood of learning . . .”- Stowe Boyd:

http://blog.podio.com/2011/08/01/working-out-loud-make-work-open-to-make-it-better

now

Opportunities• Walk the talk – Use the tools, work out loud!• Data! Let’s get started.• Country VCD … document the approaches,

the choices and the results (partners? multimedia, engagement)

• Innovate with ICTs …• Attribute (claim) legacy project results?• Comms budget? Comms skills?

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

livestockfish.cgiar.org