Country: Eygpt/ Itlay
Client: WFP
Start Date: 01/06/2009 End Date: 01/08/2009
WFP, through the Grants Management Unit (GMU), is receiving extra-budgetary grants and trust funds from the governments of Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden and France. Two major shortcomings in relation to knowledge management were identified in relation the IS review:
- Lack of support to an ongoing exchange between regions, contributing to limited sharing of good practices and lessons learnt between regions and missed opportunities to exploit synergies.
- Inadequate systems and processes to document and make available lessons and good practices from grant funded activities.
To address this shortcoming, and to ensure that grant funded activities are used strategically to support WFP’s Strategic Plan (2008-2011), the Grant Management Unit contracted a team of four consultants to undertake an assignment on Knowledge Management, with two objectives:
- to identify tools, systems, approaches, lessons learnt and other outcomes of the various grants (focusing on key thematic areas relevant to Strategic Plan implementation) that are suitable for sharing within WFP – this will include largely good practice, but also lessons from failure – and to communicate these to relevant units in WFP as well as through the planning and implementation of 1-2 regional workshops;
- to identify current processes and tools that exist for knowledge sharing at RB and HQ level, and to propose strategies appropriate for sharing of knowledge emanating from the operational trust fund results in the short term as well as to propose for consideration elements of a corporate approach / strategy for knowledge sharing in the medium term.