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Knowledge Networking. Tracking the Health of the Network. Topics to Cover. Networking Benefits of networks How we analyze networks Who uses network analysis? The IFAD network in APR What we have learned Looking at the maps. Networking is what you do all the time.
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Knowledge Networking Tracking the Health of the Network
Topics to Cover • Networking • Benefits of networks • How we analyze networks • Who uses network analysis? • The IFAD network in APR • What we have learned • Looking at the maps
Networking is what you do all the time • Meet and connect with people • Draw on your connections to help in your work
Why is Networking Important? • Bring skills and knowledge to bear on problems in your countries • Find others who have already solved similar problem • Make your own work more effective • Share what you have learned with others • Make their work more effective
Definitions • Social network analysis (SNA): An analysis of relationships / flows / influence between people, groups, or organizations • Organizational network analysis (ONA): A targeted approach to improving collaboration and network connectivity where they yield greatest benefitsfor an organization or network. (SNA applied to an organisation)
Who is Network Analysis used? Some examples • To track disease spread • For organisational development • For managing networks • …many others
Disease Spread • Disease spread: smoking and quitting in groups
Organisational Development • Improving collaboration • Finding gaps • Making connections • Finding key people
Managing Networks • Managing networks effectively • Improve performance
NGOs • A network of international donors supporting various NGOs within a particular country • A network of community organisations (formal and informal, modern and traditional) linked by overlapping membership, or by authority relationships. • A network of enterprises, lined by their commercial relationships, forming supply chains and networks within a specific industry. • A network of donors and NGOs linked by common policy concerns, such as specific objectives within a national poverty reduction strategy • Anetwork of events, such as workshops, linked by overlapping sets of participants Source: Rick Davies, http://mande.co.uk/special-issues/network-models/
Tracking the IFAD Network in Asia Pacific What we learned from the mapping exercises
Where we started Mongolia Rome China Rome Afghanistan Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh India Lao PDR Cambodia Philippines Vietnam Sri Lanka Maldives Indonesia Kiribati Fiji
A bit of History….. Pre-2007 • Tracking through m&e surveys; website usage; email exchange 2007 plan for network exercise 2008 First regional network mapping 2009 Bangladesh Country Mapping 2010 Second Regional Mapping
Where we have come Mongolia Rome China Rome Afghanistan Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh India Lao PDR Cambodia Philippines Vietnam Sri Lanka Maldives Kiribati Indonesia Fiji
Network Mapping I Objectives: • Baseline the current state of connectedness • Understand the extent to which the programme directors were working within and across geographic and cultural boundaries • Understand how people communicate and attitudes toward networking
Network Mapping II Objectives: • Look at how the connectedness and attitudes evolved over time • Determine the nature of the interactions that individual have with each other • Provide insights for transition of knowledge networking programme to IFAD
Specific questions • Are people sharing easily within and across country boundaries? • Do people know who might need to know what they are learning? • Who are the people who will help sustain the network over time? • What are people interacting about?
Participants: 2010 Sample* *2008 survey: 72 people surveyed; 49 responded (69%)
Network Structure I know this person and have at least some interaction with them.
Network Structure The network shows the core/periphery structure.
Network Structure (no HQ) I know this person and have at least some interaction with them.
Same Participants in Both Surveys 2008 2010 Density = 7.9% Density = 8.8% “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
Country Maps Bangladesh Cambodia “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
Country Maps China India “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
Country Maps Nepal Pakistan “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
Country Maps Philippines Sri Lanka “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
Country Maps Vietnam “I interact with this person at least once every other week.”
One Country: Bangladesh I interact with this person at least once a month on operational topics.
The nature of interactions • In 2010, we sought to understand how people interacted with respect to their areas of expertise • And, if the focus of interactions was: • Within their own area of expertise • On cross-cutting topics • On administrative topics • On areas outside of their own area of expertise
Interactions: Agricultural Expertise I know this person and have had some interaction I interact with this person at least every 2-3 months
Thematic Groups Knowledge Management Gender Issues I know this person and have at least some interaction with them.
Barriers to Sharing We are doing well here.
What Can We Improve? Still need: how to find the right person?
Learning from network mapping • CPMs are at the centre of the national networks and recognise the value of networking for information exchange • Strong common interest help establish networking groups • Facilitation and mechanisms to share lead to dynamic networks • Network has been growing and members see it as an important resource
Learning from network mapping • Emails and mobile phones are most popular means of communication • Great need to learn from others’ experiences to improve performance • Key connectors in the network help knowledge move faster and in variety of directions • Interaction between people are needs based
Your Network • A mapping exercise for you to visualise map out your relationships • Then share your network maps with others (discussion) • Fedback-what did you find interesting?
