This section contains stories, tools, and resources about the field of knowledge sharing and how it can be used to support individual and organizational learning.

• ECARMU HR Network - Case Study - (English 137kb | Spanish 142kb | French 104k)
• Advancing Organizational Learning to Promote Social Learning (LACRMU-MIT-IISC)

• Knowledge Sharing Position Paper - (.pdf - 54KB)
  
  
• CARE Knowledge Sharing Approach
  
  
• CARE KS Assessment (.pdf 253 kb) This document is password-protected and exclusive to CARE Staff. The password was sent in the initial e-mail communication to all-staff to announce the knowlege sharing funds, on November 7, 2006. Had a CARE Staff needs the password , please contact mfort@care.org to request it.
  
• Review of the SRH Communities of Practice and Recommendations. The review summarizes efforts by the Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) team to promote knowledge sharing through CoPs; identifies key promoters and constraints for CoP effectiveness; and makes recommendations on how CoPs could be more effective within CARE. CoP Summary (.pdf 180k) English | Spanish | CoP Report (.pdf 104k)
  
  
• CARE Assessment Summary (28kb .pdf) | English | Spanish
  
  
• Guidelines for managing virtual discussion groups - (.pdf - 117 KB)

• About Discussion Forums - (.pdf - 67 KB)

• Book Review on Knowledge Sharing - Colin Beckwith - (.pdf - 307 KB)

• Suggested Books & Articles
  
  
  • The reflective practitioner. How professionals think in action. Donald A. Scho. USA, 1983.
  • The fifth discipline. The art and practice of the learning organization. Peter Senge. USA, 1990
  • The Knowledge-Creating Company, by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi; Oxford University Press (1995)
    
  • Cultivating Communities of Practice, by Ettienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder; Harvard Business School Press (2002)
    
  • Harvesting Exprience: Reaping the Benefits of Knowledge, by Jan Duffy, ARMA International (1999)

• Links
  
  
  • KM for Development (KM4Dev) is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.
  • Knowledge Sharing at the World Bank - The World Bank Institutes website that provides information and resources on their own knowledge management strategies and activities
  • Knowledge Connections - a website that provides resources to help create effective knowledge management strategies
  • Organization Development and Capacity Building Links - A website developed by New Directions in Organizational Capacity Building that provides a variety of resources organizational development and organizational learning
  • NeLH Specialist Library on Knowledge Management - A library for knowledge management within the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH)
  • Story Telling as a Knowledge Sharing Method - Steve Denning's website that provides resources and links on the art of story telling and a leadership and knowledge sharing methodology
  • Tools for Knowledge and Learning: A guide for development and humanitarian organizations, RAPID, Overseas Development Institute. London, July 2006 Author: Ben Ramalingam. The handbook contains 30 tools organized into five categories of Strategy Development, Management Approaches, Collaboration Mechanisms, Knowledge Sharing and Learning and Knowledge Capture and Storage.
  • A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices. INFO project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs. Washington DC, 2005. Author: Margaret D’Adamo and Adrienne Kols. This tool, developed by the INFO Project, includes a step-by-step process, tips, case studies and links to additional resources that explain how an organization can more effectively share its own best practices internally. 
  • Managing Knowledge to Improve Reproductive Health Programs A useful resource for reproductive health program managers to help them systematically increase the creativity and empowerment of staff members and therefore lead to better health for clients.
  • Knowledge Management Specialist Library. This is an specialist library site on the National Library for Health, UK. The aim of this site is to provide the best available evidence and practical examples of health professionals successfully sharing and applying knowledge and experience to their daily activities. It contains also some general Knowledge management/Knowledge Sharing resources