Knowledge Creation: An Institutional Capacity Building Instrument

Capacity Building

process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in the fast-changing world.

(Ann Philbin, Capacity Building in Social Justice Organizations

Ford Foundation, 1996)

Capacity Building (contd.)

Activities which strengthen the knowledge,

abilities, skills and behaviour of individuals

and improve institutional structures and

processes such that the organization can

efficiently meet its mission and goals in a

sustainable way.

Levels of capacity Building• Individual level- It also calls for the establishment of

conditions that will allow individuals to engage in the “process of learning and adapting to change”

• Institutional level- It should not involve creating new institutions, rather modernizing existing institutions and supporting them in forming sound policies, organizational structures, and effective methods of management and revenue control.

• Societal level- support the establishment of a more “interactive public administration that learns equally from its actions and from feedback it receives from the population at large.”

Impact of Capacity Building

Why is organizational capacity Building important?

Eternity

Innovation

Efficiency & Effectiveness

Stability

Survival

Why Doesn’t Capacity Building Happen Naturally?

• Need Recognition

• Unaware of Options/ Resources

• Strategy Lack

• Unrealistic Expectations

• Time and Money Investment

Knowledge at the base of Capacity Building

Dual Nature of Knowledge

• Formal & Informal

• Transitive Knowledge & resource Knowledge

• Know how & know what

• Soft & Hard

• Autopoietic & representative

• Participation & Reification

• Tacit & Explicit

Complementary Forms

Participation & Reification

Knowledge Spiral (Nonaka 1991)

Knowledge Spiral another Look (Nonaka etal 1995)

Knowledge Spiral in Capacity Building

Needs

• Knowledge Base

– Database, software, records, domestic research codification, delivery and verification system, MIS and the like.

• Knowledgeable People

– Willing to learn, Experiment, Take risk, Explore knowledge avenues, Research patiently, Innovate and the like

Operation of Knowledge creation in Educational Institutions

Through• Curricular Reforms

• Continued Learning and encouragement to learning ventures

• Domestic Knowledge services: creation and active involvement

• Dynamic and Static Knowledge bank

• Transparency and accountability

Thesis

आ नौ भद्राः कृतवो यन्तु ववश्वताः

LET NOBLE THOUGHTS(KNOWLEDGE) COME TO US FROM ALL SIDES.

Thanks For Kind Attention

Grover Vijay K

D A V College of Education,

Abohar (Punjab)grovervijayk@gmail.com