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Return on Knowledge

How international development agencies are collaborating to deliver impact through knowledge, learning, research and evidence
Return on Knowledge: How international development agencies are collaborating to deliver impact through knowledge, learning, research and evidence

Author(s)

Piers Bocock; Chris Collison

 

Publication series:
Miscellanea

No. of pages: 283

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Abstract

Effective collaboration around knowledge management and organizational learning is a key contributor to improving the impact of international development work for the world’s most vulnerable people. But how can it be proven?

With only 10 years from the target date for the Sustainable Development Goals, nine of the world’s most influential agencies set out to show to the connection between the use of evidence, knowledge and learning and a better quality of human life. This book – a synthesis of stories, examples and insights that demonstrate where and how these practices have made a positive impact on development programming – is the result of the Multi-Donor Learning Partnership (MDLP), a collective effort to record the ways each of these organizations have leveraged intentional, systematic and resourced approaches to knowledge management and organizational learning in their work.

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