This week is ‘Open Access Week’ with lots of activities happening worldwide. A good week to celebrate the freedom of information to circulate. This week is also ‘International Facilitation Week’; also a good opportunity to wonder how open facilitation helps knowledge circulate just as openly… Continue reading
Author Archives: Ewen Le Borgne
Africa / Event / ILRIComms / LIVESTOCKFISH / PIM / Value chains
Creative (graphic) facilitation to support a dairy value chain seminar
The intention of the organizers of the ‘African Dairy Seminar’ (21-24 September 2014) was, from the start, to organize a ‘different kind of event’, realizing that a lot of workshops are run in a rather standard kind of way. The difference this time? Good content and questions, a good mix of participants, and useful (graphic) facilitation – with all that this encompasses… Continue reading
CCAFS / Climate change / Event / ILRIComms / Innovation Systems / Interview / Knowledge and Information / Social learning
Assessing social learning? Four monitoring specialists provide some answers
Last month, the Climate Change Communication and Social Learning (CCSL) project organized an evidence-gathering workshop to better unpack what social learning is, and particularly how to assess and monitor it. Four monitoring and evaluation (M&E) specialists comment on some of the issues raised. Continue reading
Capacity Strengthening / CCAFS / Climate change / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Social learning
Doing, documenting and assessing social learning with the CCSL framework and toolkit
There has been much talk about social learning in CGIAR over the past decade. In recent years we have seen additional actions driven by the CCSL initiative; it has now produced a climate change communication and social learning framework and toolkit to help social learning beginners and experts do, document and assess social learning. Continue reading
Using ILRI wikis to communicate, collaborate and co-evolve
ILRI has been using wikis since at least 2009 and they have been used extensively in projects such as the Nile Basin Development Challenge, Africa RISING, and the Livestock and Fish research program. Continue reading
Navigating monitoring and evaluation with a knowledge management compass
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) often feels as a burden that to be complied with. It is often equated with bean-counting and providing meaningless reports. Yet M&E also offers the promise of great learning – if done well. It can be a real instrument for smart adaptive management to deal with complex organizational agendas. How do … Continue reading
Climate change communication and social learning for smarter agricultural research
Social learning helps smart organizations become smarter, and their activities to end up in smarter results. This is what a group of people working on climate change communication and social learning (CCSL) posited in June 2013 at a plan-and-writeshop. Hypothesis A: Social learning improves institutional processes and performance/effectiveness in the context of climate change. Hypothesis B: Social … Continue reading
Africa / Asia / CCAFS / East Africa / Event / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Latin America / LIVESTOCKFISH / South America / South Asia / Southeast Asia / Southern Africa / West Africa / WLE
Getting knowledge management and communication into CGIAR programs
In many CGIAR programs and activities, communication and knowledge management are invited too little and too late. This means that the results of their science may fall into oblivion. Much can be achieved by bringing communication and knowledge management right into the heart of CGIAR programs – to support engagement with partners, research uptake and … Continue reading
Climate change communication and social learning – documenting the evidence
Since late 2011, ILRI has been working closely with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and a host of other organizations and individuals on ‘climate change, communication and social learning’ (CCSL). What started off with a meeting of minds in May 2012 has turned into a series of events, … Continue reading
Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Event / ICT / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information
Facilitating large events – Lessons from the ict4ag Rwanda conference
This year’s most important event in the world of agricultural information and knowledge took place from 4 to 8 November in Kigali, Rwanda. ict4ag brought together over 400 participants eager to share ideas, questions, and applications supporting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for agricultural development. The event was led by the Technical Centre … Continue reading
Maarifa - Communications and Knowledge Management 