IBP Knowledge Gateway - Share, exchange, transfer and apply knowledge
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Angela Nash-Mercado, JHU CCP, K4Health
On behalf of Partners of the Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Initiative
Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Implementing Best Practices (IBP) Knowledge Gateway:Knowledge Gateway:
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Implementing Best Practices
IBP is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of the family planning/reproductive health community to identify, implement, and scale-up effective practices through sharing knowledge and resources, minimizing duplication, and promoting collaboration.
IBP Consortium Members
Diverse group of partners
Different comparative advantages
Function at the global, regional and country level
Reduce duplication
Harmonize approaches
Identifying and taking effective practices to scale
Catalyze action to managing change
IBP Consortium MembersFounding partners: WHO/RHR USAID UNFPA EngenderHealth Family Health International International Planned Parenthood
Federation IntraHealth Jhpiego Johns Hopkins’ Center for
Communication Programs Management Sciences for Health Pathfinder International Public Health Institute
New partners: Academy for Education Development Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health CARE International Centre for African Family Studies Centre for Development & Population Activities CORE Group East, Central, and Southern African Heath Community (ECSA HC) ExpandNet Family Care International International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University International Council on Management of Population Programs John Snow ,Inc. Marie Stopes International Partners in Population & Development Population Council Population Reference Burearu PATH Regional Centre for Quality of Health Care, Makerere University, Uganda University Research Corporation White Ribbon Alliance
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To effectively exchange or transfer knowledge, information, expertise, and experience in order to improve practice
Our Challenge
Overcome gap in transfer and application
of knowledge
Improve practice and
health
Unlock and share knowledge
and experience
Save time & money
Promotecollaboration
The value of participating in a Community of Practice
Solveproblems
Share lessons learned
Capture“know how”
Enable innovation
&creativity
Knowledge Gateway
Web-based technology to function via: Email Online http://knowledge-gateway.org
Every communication is automatically archived
Access the system from anywhere you have an Internet connection
Low resolution Simple to use Connects individuals and groups to other
communities of practice
Knowledge GatewayKnowledge Gateway
WHO/RHR shares the management of the Knowledge Gateway with JHU/CCP/K4Health.
Both help IBP members and other organizations and agencies to create and manage communities of practice and eForums.
WA Research is the IT partner who created and maintains the Knowledge Gateway platform.
Knowledge GatewayKnowledge Gateway
42,673 members from:220 countries and territories13,801 organizations
Members participate in hundreds of communities
More than 60 online discussion forums conducted
Design Principles
1. Link with external resources
2. Accept different levels of participation
3. Develop public and private community
spaces
4. Focus on value – to individual members and
to organization
5. Combine routine events with new activities
6. Create a rhythm for the community
Role of CoP Leaders
• Foster learning• Stimulate interaction• Create new knowledge• Promote awareness among
new members• Develop common
understandings• Identify and share good
methodologies, tools, projects, etc.
• Build a network of experts in specific areas of interest
Strategies for Fostering Engagement
• Recognize community members’ contributions, helping peers, sharing experiences, connecting experts, and mentoring
• Create processes for rewarding knowledge nuggets captured, created, and shared
• Recognize and market communities internally and externally
• Organize and conduct online discussion forums• Can attract new members• Enables participants to ask an expert in their
field questions to which they can respond over a set period of time
• Create community eNewsletters
clear purpose – what will it be used to do? creating a safe and trusted environment committed core group of active participants being motivated knowing the needs of participants having a clear action plan with activities to
meet needs blending face-to-face and online activities
Nurturing and sustaining the CoP requires efforteffort and energyenergy from a skilled leaderleader.
What Makes a Successful CoP?
Criteria for Successful CoPs
Easy access to the discussion; The opportunity to interact with a wide range of
participants; The ability to meet one's information needs; Maintaining or increasing membership and motivation to
participate; Reaching participants with key information; Ensuring that discussion threads are clear and easily
understood; Generating debate that is provocative, interesting and
stimulating; and Encouraging participants to discover new ways to tackle
problems and to foster sustainable partnerships.
knowledge-gateway.org
For more information, visit the Knowledge Gateway