Solution Exchange – an initiative of the UN Country Team in India The Art of Knowledge Exchange: YOUNG & COOPERATING by Ramesh Kumar Jalan, Ph.D. Resource.

Solution Exchange – an initiative of the UN Country Team in India

The Art of Knowledge Exchange: YOUNG & COOPERATING

by Ramesh Kumar Jalan, Ph.D.

Resource Person & ModeratorClimate Change Community of Practice(CoP)

United Nations Development ProgrammeNew Delhi

18th July, 2013

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About Solution Exchange Network of development practitioners in India with over

35,000 subscriptions.

Set up in 2005, the 10 online Communities have

generated more than 2,500 publications.

A part of the UN Development Action Framework to

support the Government of India.

Leverages the convening power, international reach and

development experience of the UN.

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Decentralization (UNDP)

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10 Active Communities of Solution Exchange in India

Work & Employment (ILO)

Disaster Management (UNDP)

Microfinance (UNDP &

ILO)

Climate Change (UNDP)

Water UNICEF)

Food & Nutrition Security (FAO)

Gender (UNICEF & UNWOMEN)

Maternal & Child Health(UNICEF)

Open Knowledge Community (UNESCO)

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Solution Exchange in Different Countries

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Philippines

HIV & AIDS Community

Pacific Islands

Development Effectiveness Community

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Solution Exchanges in Different Countries

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Bangladesh

Urban Poverty Reduction

Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Communities

Bhutan

The Development Community

Services

e-Discussion Publication

2. e-Discussion

Priority topic

3. e-Consultation

Draft plan/ policy/

programme

“For Comments”

Feedback for consideration

e-Discussion(or Query)

Action Group assignment

Action research;

pilot; strategy; proposal

4. Action Group

1. Query service

ResponsesConsolidated

ReplyQuestion

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Help!

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Help!

Query Service: How it works

1. Member sends the Community a query (day 1)

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Try this

I did this

Read this

Contact her

Desk Research

Query Service: How it works

2. Community offers Member solutions (days 2-11)

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Query Service: How it works

3. Consolidated Reply is prepared, sent & archived (day 12)

Cons. Reply

Thank you!

To the Solutions

Bank

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What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people that interacts regularly on

a common topic to learn from one another.

It is Best used for :

o Energizing professional networks at a global, regional, country, community, and institutional levels; in multiple modes, i.e. face to face and also virtual activities

o Sharing experiences and best practices

o Generating new ideas

o Capturing and sharing tacit knowledge

How to use it:

o Planning Phase

o Delivery Phase

o Follow-up phase

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Tips for increasing engagement in your community? Model the desired behavior in your community from Day 1 and stick to it.

Make it easy to participate

Welcome new members and acknowledge contributors in a timely fashion

Email is still the king.

Write interesting content

Identify and nurture a core group of ‘power users’

Showcase and cross promote content generated by community members

Set limits and clarify expected outcomes

Engage with popular existing communities

Don’t forget about face to face gatherings

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How to Sustain a Community of Practice (CoP) In order to sustain a CoP it is imperative to include MAVENS,

CONNECTORS and SALESPEOPLE as the members.

MAVENS are subject matter experts. They provide new information, refine existing ones and highlight insights

CONNECTORS as the name suggests connect people and groups and also establish new partnerships.

SALESPEOPLE are persuasive and charismatic and also act as negotiators. They are the champions who energize the group.

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Young & Cooperating An e-mouthpiece for the ICA Committee on Youth Cooperation for

Asia Pacific.

Cooperatives are a reminder to the international community that it is possible to pursue both economic viability and social responsibility(UN-SG).

The Lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labor for a small pittance of wages from others.(Robert Owen, Father of Cooperation)

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions…. (Albert Einstein)

I am not young enough to know every thing –Oscar Wilde

A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprise.

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Young & Cooperating The Cooperative Principles:

Voluntary and open Membership

Democratic Member Control

Member economic participation

Autonomy & Independence

Education , Training & Information

Cooperation among Cooperatives

Concern for Community

These are also the principles on which Solution Exchange was pioneered in India by the UN

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Knowledge Exchange (KE) – The Art Knowledge Exchange or peer-to-peer learning is

a powerful way to share, replicate and scale up development success stories.

Development practitioners are keen to learn from the practical experience of others facing or have faced similar problems.

Basically they want to be connected to each other and have ready access to knowledge and solutions.

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Knowledge Exchange (KE) – The Art The approach followed by Solution Exchange helps you to:

Consider KE within a broader programmatic and development context

Ensure your initiative is stakeholder-owned and demand-driven

Determine Capacity challenges impeding the achieve of a specific development goal.

Reflect on the change processes needed to achieve a development objective

Choose the right mix of Knowledge Exchange Instruments and activities needed to help your participants to learn, grow and above all play their individual role.

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Five Steps to a Successful KE Step 1 – Anchor it

o Identify the development goal and how it can be reached

o Identify the institutional capacity challenges

o Consider the capacity development objectives

Step 2 – Define it

o Identify the ideal participant profile

o Consider the desired capacity outcomes

o Identify the most appropriate knowledge providers

Step 3 – Design & Develop it

o Select the Participants

o Agree on the capacity objectives and outcomes

o Assemble the KE initiative

• Operating constraints

• Select KE instruments

• Select , sequence and design the activities

o Plan the Results Management

Step 4 – Implement it

Step 5 – Report the Results

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UNDP & Knowledge : Connecting Globally, Enabling Locally

UNDP is a knowledge institution and its role in this arena includes:

Producing and disseminating high Quality global and country knowledge. E.g. The Human Development Reports.

Utilizing best available knowledge to influence and inform policies and programs designed to meet specific challenges

Connecting governments, civil society and private sector players with others that have faced similar challenges.

Keeping in view UNDP’s scale and diversity, it can play any or all of the above roles as required to address the development challenges in particular as a knowledge producer, knowledge customizer and knowledge connector.

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Conclusion

Youth today are the major stakeholders to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change as the real impacts of climate change are yet to be felt

Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase awareness amongst the youth on various facets of climate change.

A cost effective way to share knowledge and enhance awareness would be to create a sub-community of practice under the aegis of the climate change community, Solution Exchange

The modalities of such a community of practice neds to be worked out with ICA-AP.

In order to empower the youth all over the world, I think setting up such a community of practice is the need of the hour as the youth really need to cooperate if they are to face this challenge.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon way back in 2008 warned of the dangers of the fight against climate change – which he characterized as the “defining challenge of our era”

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