Livestock Donors Week , 4-6 May 2010
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New Partnerships
Better Connections
Exchange mechanisms
Multiple sources of
knowledge and practices
Faster problem-solving
mechanisms
Pro-active Participation
KS Culture
Direct use of new KS/KM
Tools
Promotion of CoP-PPLD
Sharing Platform
Strenghts Weaknesses
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Key Ingredients for a Successful Implementation:
Dialogue between inside and outside perspectives;
Champions;
Commitment;
New interest, perspectives and common challenges ;
Community but also person-to person communications based on common objectives.
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Objectives:
Strengthening partnerships and establishing
sustainable knowledge exchange mechanisms
with rural community organizations;
Enhancing the sharing and learning functions
of CoP-PPLD Members to capture and scale up
innovative approaches and good practices
among poor livestock keepers;
Securing financial sustainability for the
operalization of the CoP-PPLD.
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Key Activities:
Replicate the Ghana and Kenya initiatives to strengthen partnerships,
and open knowledge exchange channels with rural community
organizations;
Organize Knowledge Fairs for Farmers Organizations to promote sharing
and broadcast their achievements, best practices and innovative
approaches;
Introduce Low bandwidth tools to establish communication channels
with people in remote areas and limited internet access;
Conduct a self evaluation of the CoP-PPLD.
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ChallengesBuilding ownership and contributing to members’ sensitization;
Identifying barriers that limit knowledge sharing and participation;
Involving new members;
Enabling continuous and dynamic interactions.
How to remove barriers that limit / prevent knowledge sharing and how can we concretely enhance the participation within the CoP-PPLD?
How can we build ownership towards the Community?
Open discussion:
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Challenges
“ A group of participants becomes a community through being a
community. It is through interacting and experiencing common
events that the community is created”. (Tosey, P.)
Identification of new…
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