knowledge management & sustainability
Post on 22-Feb-2016
21 Views
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
1Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Knowledge Management& sustainability
Wednesday 14th November 2012
Presented byMarc Lepage
What’s KM?
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Refresher: what’s KM?
knowledge management is concerned with three things:
• What is known;• How that knowledge is used; and• How fast something new can be learned.
Simply put, it enables us to find and organise data and information so that it can be articulated and applied to make better decisions.
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
4Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Session outline
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
What will it take for AAP’s work to be sustainable? What might be the role KM has to contribute to that sustainability?
UNDP & adaptation
5Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Internal challenges
• Identifying and leveraging mutually-held knowledge for its benefit
• building its innovative capacity by “knowing what it is it knows” and applying this intellectual capacity in new products and services;
• taking on the educational challenge of building higher order skills eg resilience; coaching; negotiation; networking etc.
Leadership
Our respective organisations need to acknowledge that it is an open-system, nestled within an environment that contains other systems.
It means leadership has to ask - how do we lead differently in a world of multiple stakeholders?
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
KM leadership will involve..
– Commitment to building knowledge – Allowing self-managing teams greater flexibility
and adaptability; less ‘command & control”– Leadership cascading throughout the system– Leader as “servant”; not ‘hero”.
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
It means..It means replacing old values with new ones:
• Cooperation not competition• Understanding the whole picture not step-by-step linear planning
and micro-management• Co-evolving with the environment not controlling it
• It calls for authentic dialogue so that all stakeholder needs and concerns are understood and it involves understanding that value is created by building long-term sustainable relationships with stakeholders and consulting with NGOs, voluntary cooperatives etc...
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
BUT UNDP (and we humans) LOVE predictability and balance.
• To move towards sustainability, the organisation has to be in a state of non-equilibrium (i.e. keeping off balance/edge of chaos) so it can dynamically grow and adapt. It must receive new information and knowledge even if it disturbs the system.
• The new environment we are facing globally will force the organisation to be off balance.
• So just as the heat has been turned up on our planet, so the heat is on for the contemporary organisation.
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
KM has a key role in DRIVING sustainability
• If sustainability is all about stakeholder engagement; building bridging capital; broadening the knowledge base of what we do beyond its boundaries, then KM has a critical role to play.
• When a system is off balance, it must constantly innovate and adapt. It is known as the space of creativity or edge of chaos. KM can push the system towards the edge of chaos and force it to be continually challenged, continually respond to external stimuli; continually refresh itself.
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
How?
– Building rich connections and conversations– Communities of practice – Value networks – where knowledge is exchanged
and economic success for all participants in the value network is achieved.
– Coaching/mentoring– Learning how to adapt and be resilient in the face
of rapid change
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Overview of UNDP engagement on climate change
UNDP is the lead capacity development UN agency and have a long history of assisting countries to address climate change, climate variability & extremes; land degradation and biodiversity loss, and developing capacity in these areas.
UNDP’s CC adaptation portfolio includes 25 LDCs and 17 SIDS
UNDP has supported 31 LDCs to develop NAPAs, and 26 LDCS to develop National Communications
UNDP is currently supporting over half of all LDCs to access financing for NAPA follow-up priorities funded by the LDCF, etc
UNDP assists 23 LDCs to conserve & sustainably use biodiversity; an additional 12 LDCs will soon be supported
UNDP supported 32 LDC to undertake National Capacity Self-Assessments and work with several to address priorities
UNDP’s Approach to Adaptation
1. Develop Technical Capacity Identify climate change risks and opportunities Prepare long-term risk management strategies
2. Internalize Climate Change Risks Integrate climate change risks into planning,
budgeting, management Incorporate climate change risks into decision
making process for key economic sectors
3. Policy and Institutional Support Revise and formulate national and sectoral policies Establish institutional support mechanism
4. Demonstration Projects Test approaches and technologies for climate
change risk management
5. Capacity Building Codify and disseminate knowledge and best
practices
UNDP assists over 75 non-Annex I countries to adapt to climate change. Of these, 54 countries are already implementing programmes/projects to
manage uncertainties of climate change. This includes 25 LDCs and 17 SIDS.
UNDP Climate Change Adaptation Assistance: Distribution of Funding by Activity
UNDP Support to Least Developed Countries (LDCs)
NAPAs UNDP has supported 31 LDCs to develop NAPAs The final 2 UNDP-supported NAPAs for Nepal & Timor Leste were completed in 2010
Implementation of NAPA Follow-Up Activities UNDP is the first development agency to support NAPA follow-up activities
UNDP is currently supporting over half of all LDCs to access financing for implementation of NAPA follow-up priorities funded by the LDCF
UNDP has been instrumental to the development of National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) and Implementation of NAPA Priorities
UNDP also supports LDCs via initiatives funded by the SCCF and AF
Some examples: Coping with Drought & Climate Change (SCCF): Ethiopia, Mozambique Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (SCCF): Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu Enhancing resilience of communities to the adverse effects of climate change in
agriculture and food security (AF): Solomon Islands
Countries supported through UNDP LDCF/SCCF/SPA Initiatives
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Antarctic Circle
Arctic Circle
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Robinson ProjectionCentral Meridian 0.00
Stay connected!
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Join global networks (1)
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Join global networks (2)
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Share at the regional level
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
UNDP staff: remain engaged!
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Don’t let others talk alone: join the conversation!
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Connections are everywhere
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
SDGs: have your voice heard!
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
The KM ladder
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
So, what’s next?
• Share the top 10 documents you worked on while at AAP: make your work visible!
• Recommend/give feedback on work of others
• .. Climb the KM ladder!
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Questions?
marc.lepage@undp.org
Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
top related