Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)

This paper is a case study of a network that combined participatory approaches to propose best suited knowledge management (KM) interventions for its member countries. A five-step exercise used existing elements of the alliance’s strategy, a KM survey and a face-to-face participatory validation of t...

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Autores principales: Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel, Staiger Rivas, Simone, Beelen, Koen, Bheenick, Krishan
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83167
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author Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel
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description This paper is a case study of a network that combined participatory approaches to propose best suited knowledge management (KM) interventions for its member countries. A five-step exercise used existing elements of the alliance’s strategy, a KM survey and a face-to-face participatory validation of the analysis, to identify gaps in current KM approaches and to collectively point to immediate opportunities for improvement. The KM survey, also referred to as a scan, provided a neutral space for reflection. Its conclusions through the workshop process were crucial in confirming the network's strengths and weaknesses specific to KM. Feeding back the results into existing work plans provided concrete opportunities for country members to implement ideas that had been discussed. The approach to and the outputs of this exercise were extrapolated to formulate a theory of change on KM for the alliance.
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spelling CGSpace831672025-03-13T09:45:44Z Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN) Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel Staiger Rivas, Simone Beelen, Koen Bheenick, Krishan knowledge management cartography research networks phaseolus vulgaris beans case studies gestión del conocimiento cartografía redes de investigación estudios de casos prácticos This paper is a case study of a network that combined participatory approaches to propose best suited knowledge management (KM) interventions for its member countries. A five-step exercise used existing elements of the alliance’s strategy, a KM survey and a face-to-face participatory validation of the analysis, to identify gaps in current KM approaches and to collectively point to immediate opportunities for improvement. The KM survey, also referred to as a scan, provided a neutral space for reflection. Its conclusions through the workshop process were crucial in confirming the network's strengths and weaknesses specific to KM. Feeding back the results into existing work plans provided concrete opportunities for country members to implement ideas that had been discussed. The approach to and the outputs of this exercise were extrapolated to formulate a theory of change on KM for the alliance. 2017 2017-08-17T16:26:53Z 2017-08-17T16:26:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/83167 en Open Access Muthoni-Andriatsitohaina, Rachel; Staiger-Rivas, Simone; Beelen, Koen; Bheenick, Krishan. 2017. Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN) . Knowledge Management for Development Journal 13(2): 81-95.
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research networks
phaseolus vulgaris
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case studies
gestión del conocimiento
cartografía
redes de investigación
estudios de casos prácticos
Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Rachel
Staiger Rivas, Simone
Beelen, Koen
Bheenick, Krishan
Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title_full Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title_fullStr Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title_full_unstemmed Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title_short Developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system: the case of the Southern African Bean Research Network (SABRN)
title_sort developing a knowledge management approach for an agricultural innovation system the case of the southern african bean research network sabrn
topic knowledge management
cartography
research networks
phaseolus vulgaris
beans
case studies
gestión del conocimiento
cartografía
redes de investigación
estudios de casos prácticos
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