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Coordinating Knowledge Management Across the UN and
EnhancingCollaboration
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Ian Thorpe Team Leader, Knowledge Management, UN DOCO
A brief history of interagency KM…
• UNDG Working group on knowledge management (2004-2007)
• JIU report 2008 • UNDG KM mapping 2010• UNDG knowledge fairs 2010• DOCO KM team created 2011
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UNDG Key Outcomes 2010-2012
• Outcome 1: Accelerated national achievement of MDGs/IADGs and treaty obligations
• Outcome 2: Strengthened UN coherence and coordination at the country level
• Outcome 3: UN Development System More Effectively Deploys Knowledge and Know-how
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KM in DOCO
• New (small) unit created in 2011• Main responsibility for managing knowledge
around UN coordination• Strong emphasis on data, information, results• Many basic IM/KM systems not yet in place• No formal DOCO responsibility or UN
working mechanism for UNDG/UN wide KM
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DOCO KM priorities in 2012
• Revised reporting system on UNDG and UNCT progress,
especially on co-ordination and UN reform
• Deployment of a common UNDG expert roster system
• Redesign of UNDG website, information base and tools
• Revitalize Coordination Practice Network (CPN) and other
networks
• Documenting and sharing case studies, innovations, lessons
learned and good practice “what works in co-ordination”
• General support for UNDG working mechanisms
• Improving internal KM within DOCO (mainly document
management)
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UNDG Workstreams• UNDAF/Common Country Programming• Common Services and Harmonized Business
Practices • Joint Communication • Common Premises • Joint Resource Mobilization/Common budgetary
framework • Organizational change – leadership, structure,
skills, culture
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UNDG “Normative Areas”
• Post-Crisis Transition• Delivering as One• Aid Effectiveness• Human Rights Mainstreaming• Gender Mainstreaming
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Not current DOCO priorities!
• Support in KM to UN country teams (internal or external)
• Co-ordination or harmonization of KM work across UN system
• KM around substantive programme areas (who does/should do this ?)
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Informal Interagency Interaction
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• KM focal points network• “KM within the United Nations” Teamworks
space• UN KM Yammer• Ad-hoc partnerships and joint initiatives
Challenges to inter-agency KM
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• Lack of common vision on role of KM in UN• Weak inter-agency sharing and collaboration• No-one with formal coordinating role in KM• Capacity gaps• Diverse approaches• Platform competition• Creating our own knowledge silos
Prusak’s three ages of knowledge management
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• Information/Knowledge repositories• Individual knowledge• Collective knowledge
Are we stuck in the information age?
Moving into the era of collective knowledge?
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• UN as a knowledge convener and platform provider
• Greater openness and external/service focus• Inter-operability of approaches and systems• Knowledge as capability not repository• Focus on developing knowledge capacity of
partners
Discussion questions
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• How can we ensure the knowledge generated from MDG-F can be put to use in the UN?
• How can we foster greater cross-UN collaboration on KM?
• How can we maintain and build on the networks you have developed?
• What is the catalytic role MDG-F and you as individuals can play?
Coordinating Knowledge Management Across the UN and Enhancing
Collaboration
Thank you!
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Ian Thorpe Team Leader, Knowledge Management, UN DOCO
Resources
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• UNDG website: http://undg.org• UNDG toolkit: http://toolkit.undg.org• “KM within the UN” teamworks:
https://one.unteamworks.org/node/63792
• UN KM Yammer:https://www.yammer.com/unknowledgemanagement/
• Knowledge Sharing toolkit: http://kstoolkit.org/