Background
To be fully effective, we must also consciously and actively blend knowledge with financing. We will focus on developing, capturing, and sharing knowledge in all our work, ensuring that ADB serves an intermediary role for both financing and knowledge.
Enhancing Knowledge Management Under ADB’s Strategy 2020
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.—Ella Williams
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.—Colleen Barrett
Crafting a Knowledge Management Results Framework
Impact: The capacity of ADB and its DMCs to reduce poverty is enhanced | |||
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Outcome
| Monitoring indicator
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First Pillar Statement: The Knowledge Focus in ADB’s Operations is Sharpened
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At the regional level, ADB is increasingly recognized as a lead policy advisor, notably through the knowledge agenda that its TA for research and development advances |
Useful Results Indicators
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• Number of staff assessing the commitment and maturity of ADB’s knowledge management framework favorably. Baseline year: 2008 | 10% more every year | • Annual Knowledge Management Survey. RSDD-KM | |
• The number and outreach of ADB stand-alone flagship publications, facilitated by enhanced marketing and dissemination efforts. Baseline year: 2008 | 10% more every year | • DER | |
• The number of references to ADB knowledge products in research, press, and policy reports. Baseline year: 2008 | 5% more every year | • DER | |
• Views of web pages and downloads of PDF files from knowledge and operations departments. Baseline year: 2009 | 10% more every year | • DER | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• An E-library hosting knowledge products that are indexed and searchable is launched | Done: 2011 | • DER | |
• TA reports contain information on knowledge management and communication | More, every year | • Special study by national consultant. RSDD-KM | |
• Taxonomies, templates, and guidelines for branding and publishing, as well as use of metadata, are prepared or finalized, then disseminated through the knowledge coordinators, for use by authors | Done: 2010 | • DER | |
• A timetable for digitization of publications, e.g., books, significant papers, from 1966 is established and the process is launched, with care to add metadata to increase searchability, make intellectual patrimony more widely available, and enhance its intellectual equity | Done: 2010 | • DER | |
• Channels for marketing and distribution of knowledge products are expanded, enhanced, and monitored to build additional relationships and help increase exposure among key stakeholders, opinion makers, and academic institutions | More, every year | • DER | |
• A world-class translation system is adopted and introduced with associated training to retool, upgrade, and expand current practices, with emphasis on flow management of journalistically written summaries that where possible coincide with book releases | Done: 2011 | • DER | |
At the country level, CPSs guide medium-term operational programming with a focus on results and development effectiveness |
Useful Results
Indicators
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• Number of instances on record when CPSs led to DMC studies that were used to support policy development and decision-making. Baseline year: 2010 | 1 more every year | • Annual questionnaire to RMs. RSDD-KM | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• RRPs contain information on knowledge management and communication | More, every year | • Special study by national consultant. RSDD-KM | |
• CPSs contain information on knowledge management and communication | More, every year | • Special study by national consultant. RSDD-KM | |
• CPSs state in which sector(s) ADB considers itself a key knowledge partner in the donor community. | More, every year | • Special study by national consultant. RSDD-KM | |
• ADB organizes (i) ADB-wide, and (ii) in-country forums, workshops, seminars, conferences, media events, etc. Baseline year: 2010 | 5 more every year | • Annual questionnaire to RMs. RSDD-KM | |
At the project or TA level, key documents embody quality, knowledge, and innovation |
Useful Results Indicators
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• Downloads of TA reports from internal and external users. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • DER, ODs | |
• The number of TA consultant reports posted on ADB.org. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • DER, ODs | |
• The number of books, reports, journals, briefs, working papers, training and instructive materials, and awareness raising and multimedia materials posted on ADB.org. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • DER, ODs | |
• The number of landing pages on ADB.org for ADB projects and studies. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • DER, ODs | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• TA reports contain information on knowledge management and communication | More, every year | • Offices and departments | |
• New sector peer review process implemented in ADB for the preparation of RRPs and TAs | Done: 2010 | • SPPI, RSDD | |
Second Pillar Statement: The Communities of Practice are Empowered
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CoPs become an integral part of ADB’s business processes |
Useful Results
Indicators
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• CoPs are resourced with dedicated staff. Baseline year: 2009 | Done: 2010–2011 | • BPOD | |
• The number of work plans and PDPs in which participation in CoPs is mentioned. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • BPHR | |
• The number of meetings and events organized by CoPs. Baseline year: 2010 | More, every year | • RSDD-KM, CoPs | |
• The number of early informal peer reviews by CoP members, to help staff conceptualize projects and TA. Baseline year: 2010 | More, every year | • Annual questionnaire to CoPs. RSDD-KM | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• The capacity of CoPs in terms of staff positions in direct support of their operational and administrative activities. Baseline year: 2009 | Done: 2010–2011 | • BPOD | |
• CoPs conduct regular self-assessments of effectiveness, including assessments of the CoP convenor, as part of annual sector and thematic reports. Baseline year: 2010 | All, every year | • CoPs | |
• A Forum on Learning and ADB’s CoPs: Learning, Sharing, and Doing Together is held | Every year | • RSOD, RSDD-KM | |
• Sector and thematic websites are revamped and updated with links to relevant information in ADB. | Done: 2010–2011 | • RSDD-KM | |
• Supervisors are instructed and ensure that institutional initiatives in CoPs are assessed in PDPs and included in work planning. | Every year, at the start | • BPHR | |
• Revised Guidelines for sector and thematic reporting are prepared and approved | Done: 2009 | • RSDD-KM, RSOD | |
Output-based financing recognizes CoPs that generate and share useful and usable knowledge |
Useful Results Indicators
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• The budgets of CoPs support expanding activities and are complemented through TAs | Done: 2010 | • BPBM, CoPs | |
• Annual CoP work plans are based on triennial sector and thematic reports | 80% in 2010, 100% afterwards | • RSDD-KM | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• Budget allocations are devolved through relevant divisions to heads of CoPs responsible for managing funds. | Done: 2011 | • BPBM, CoPs | |
• A CoP Accomplishment Report is generated. | Every year, in September | • RSDD-KM | |
The CoPs engage more purposefully in external knowledge partnerships |
Useful Results Indicators
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• The number of formal and informal knowledge partnerships with other organizations for knowledge generation and sharing. Baseline year: 2010 | More, every year | • Annual questionnaire to CoPs. RSDD-KM | |
• Knowledge networking and collaboration is recognized by ADB with mention of this in PDPs | Done: 2010 | • Offices and departments, BPHR | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• CoPs engage in formal and informal knowledge partnerships that result in joint activities. Baseline year: 2010 | More, every year | • Annual questionnaire to CoPs. RSDD-KM | |
The contributions of the knowledge coordinators in ADB are enhanced |
Useful Results
Indicators
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• The activities of the knowledge coordinators are reviewed, harmonized, and managed for efficiency and effectiveness | Done: 2010–2011 | • RSDD-KM | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• Meetings, facilitated by RSDD-KM, are held with the knowledge coordinators to structure their contributions and to identify and discuss opportunities to ramp these up. Baseline year: 2010 | Every quarter | • RSDD-KM, DER | |
• Meetings, facilitated by DER, are held with the knowledge coordinators to identify and discuss marketing and dissemination opportunities to enhance knowledge products and increase their outreach with emphasis on relevance, accuracy, objectivity, and timeliness. Baseline year: 2010 | Every quarter | • DER, RSDD-KM | |
Third Pillar Statement: External Knowledge Partnerships are Strengthened
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The design, implementation, and monitoring of external knowledge partnerships with global, regional, and national institutions are improved |
Useful Results
Indicators
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• The design, implementation, and monitoring of strategic partnerships in key sectors and themes are informed by the Guidelines on Designing Knowledge Partnerships to be finalized in 2010 | Done: 2010 | • SPPI, RSDD-KM | |
• A database of strategic partnerships affords greater transparency and synergies are achieved where institutions are involved in more than one strategic partnership arrangement with ADB | Done: 2010 | • SPPI, OIST, RSDD-KM | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• A resource document, Guidelines on Designing Knowledge Partnerships, is drafted that informs the design, implementation, and monitoring of knowledge components in strategic partnerships | Done: 2010 | • RSDD-KM, SPPI | |
• Midterm review processes for memorandums of understanding with strategic partners are adapted to include review of knowledge generation and sharing components | Done: 2010 | • SPPI, RSDD-KM | |
• A database of strategic partnerships for use across ADB, including resident missions, is established and managed continuously thereafter. | Done: 2010 | • SPPI, OIST, RSDD-KM | |
External knowledge partnerships generate and share knowledge proactively |
Useful Results Indicators
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• External stakeholders perceiving ADB as a source of knowledge on development issues. Baseline year: 2006 | 10% more | • ADB Stakeholder Perceptions Survey, 2009. DER | |
Specific Activity
Indicators
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• ADB.org offers improved information on knowledge partnerships and profiles their products and services | Done: 2010 | • DER | |
• The dissemination and visibility of ADB’s knowledge products are expanded and enhanced through ADB’s depository library program and multi-donor public information center network | More, every year | • DER | |
Fourth Pillar Statement: Staff
Learning
and Skills Development are Enhanced Further
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Staff skills in knowledge management and learning are developed and captured |
Useful Results Indicators
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• Staff perceiving that ADB is becoming a learning organization that generates and shares knowledge better. Baseline year: 2008 | 10% more every year | • Annual KM Survey. RSDD-KM | |
• Staff participation in learning and development activities for knowledge management and learning | More, every year | • RSDD-KM, BPDB | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• A training needs assessment is conducted to identify the learning programs CoPs need and their preferred learning modes, and recommend learning opportunities to support their activities in 2010–2011. | Done: 2010 | • RSDD-KM, BPDB | |
• RSDD-KM and BPMSD collaborate on the design and conduct of learning and development activities | Done: 2010–2011 | • RSDD-KM, BPDB | |
• RSDD-KM holds awareness and capacity building sessions on knowledge management and learning. Start in 2010 | Continuously, every year | • RSDD-KM, BPDB | |
• The awareness, outreach, and impact of the Knowledge Solutions and Knowledge Showcase series are assessed in the baseline year and annually thereafter. | Done: 2010 | • RSDD-KM | |
• Expanded staff profile pages are developed in 2010 and made available externally in 2011. | Done: 2010 | • OISTb
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Staff pursue external learning opportunities |
Useful Results Indicators
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• The number of staff who express interest in external learning opportunities and apply for competitive sabbatical leave increases. Baseline year: 2007 | More, every year | • BPDB | |
Specific Activity Indicators
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• ADB encourages staff exchanges with strategic partners. Baseline year: 2007 | Done: 2010 | • BPDB | |
• The budget for external training expands opportunities. Baseline year: 2007 | Done: 2010 | • BPDB | |
Research in priority areas of Strategy 2020 is boosted |
Useful Results
Indicators
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• The number of senior researchers invited under the Eminent Speakers’ Forum, Distinguished Speakers Program, and Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • ADBI, ERD, RSDD-KM | |
• Demand-driven studies are undertaken by senior and junior researchers. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • Knowledge Departments | |
• Knowledge departments produce books, reports, journals, briefs, working papers, training and instructive materials, and awareness raising and multimedia materials. Baseline year: 2009 | More, every year | • RSDD, Knowledge Departments | |
Specific Activity Indicator
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• Knowledge departments seize opportunities to research priority areas of Strategy 2020. Baseline year: 2009 | One per department, every year | • RSDD, Knowledge Departments | |
The tacit knowledge of departing staff is captured to drive organizational performance improvement |
Useful Results Indicator
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• ADB retains critical knowledge from departing staff through exit interview summaries | All departing staff, from 2010 | • Offices and departments | |
Specific Activity Indicator
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• Exit interviews, initially for professional staff, are introduced in every department with assistance from RSDD-KM and mainstreamed from 2011 | Done: 2010 | • RSDD-KM, BPHR, Offices and departments |
Pillar Statement | Assumptions and Risks |
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First pillar: The knowledge focus in ADB’s operations is sharpened | (i) Strong commitment by ADB’s Senior Management Team; (ii) ADB values adjust in support of knowledge management and learning; (iii) close coordination among offices and departments; and (iv) availability of adequate resources |
Second pillar: The communities of practice are empowered | (i) Strong commitment by ADB’s Senior Management Team; (ii) availability of staff capabilities (experience, competencies, and technical and professional skills); (iii) staff attitudes (values and beliefs about innovation, commitment, and flexibility) adjust in support of knowledge management and learning; (iv) close coordination among offices and departments; and (v) availability of adequate resources |
Third pillar: External knowledge partnerships are strengthened | (i) Strong commitment by ADB’s Senior Management Team; (ii) close coordination among offices and departments; and (iii) availability of adequate resources |
Fourth pillar: Staff learning and skills development are enhanced further | (i) Strong commitment by ADB’s Senior Management Team; (ii) staff attitudes (values and beliefs about innovation, commitment, and flexibility) adjust in support of knowledge management and learning; (iii) staff behaviors (performance, productivity, teamwork, and cooperation) adjust in support of knowledge management and learning; and (iv) availability of adequate resources |