Bridget Leigh Snell and Yukika Awazu Oxfam America

1. Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Knowledge Sharing Practice: The Case of Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) Bridget Leigh Snell and Yukika Awazu Oxfam America

2. Agenda • Oxfam America’s Knowledge and Learning Practice • Case 1: The Program-level Knowledge Practice • The Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) • Case 2: The Enterprise Level Knowledge Sharing Practice • Knowledge Strategy 1: Technology-enabled Knowledge Sharing (AIR Share Webinar) • Knowledge Strategy 2: The Knowledge Assessment Tools • Challenges and Opportunities • Two Wicked Questions! World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

3. Building a systematic approach for Oxfam’s Knowledge and Learning Practice Relational Ontology Practice-based Research World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

4. The Annual Impact Reflection (AIR) Program-level Knowledge Practice World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

5. International Development Programminga knowledge & learning system 3-Year Impact Evaluation Annual Impact Reflection Yr. 1 - 3 Annual Review Yr. 1 - 3 Public Retrospection 3 – year. Program Implement Shared Meaning 10 – 15 year Program Strategy Paper Coordinated Action Joint Planning Managed by a Program Working Group Year 1 Year 3 World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

6. An Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Practice • Knowledge Strategy 1: Technology-enabled knowledge sharing (AIR Webinar) Explicit and Tacit Knowledge Sharing Shared Experience Commitment to Act Multi-lingual Multi-geography Shared Understanding Multiple time zones World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

7. Knowledge Strategy 2: The Knowledge Assessment Tools The Holistic Approach World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

8. Key Challenges and Opportunities Challenges Opportunities Building partner and regional capacities for learning Building collaborative extended network relationships Developing a model for sustainable co-participatory learning practice • Engaging complex, diverse, distributed, and situated nature of multi-stakeholders • Practicing sustainable knowledge-based relationships and networks • Implementing systematic practices for repeatable processes World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

9. Wicked Questions • How can we build organizational appreciation and investment for knowledge sharing practice that values various sources of knowledge in international development practice - not just expert or indigenous/local knowledge? • What is the secret recipe to design truly interactive spaces for knowledge sharing, across language, geography and time? World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012

10. Thank you! Please contact @ Bridget Leigh Snell (bsnell@oxfamamerica.org) Yukika Awazu (yawazu@bentley.edu) World Bank Conference -Mobilizing Knowledge Networks for Development June 19-20, 2012