I guess one possible answer for your first question is what we are noticing to be a major problem in most development projects in Brazil: the knowledge management in a project avoids that similar efforts are repeated by more than one agency when it is possible to converge to one single and coordinated action. For example, lack of knowledge management in Xingo (Brazilian Northeast) about each actor's objectives, nature and action involved in the process is responsible for agencies to establish more than one forum for discussion of local agenda with the same aspects and purposes, what confuses and disestimulates the local population participation. And it is also minimizing the results of the project and possibilities of shared activities toward development, since one agency is unknown by the other and so on.
How to promote KM in a regime of distended deadlines which when they were established didn't take KM into account at all, good question we are trying to answer. Or at least how to elaborate a project taking these terms into account and all adverse conditions in a project. I guess the major problem, or at least our major problem, is how to convince actors to do such when their staffs achieve better reports for institutions without KM and consequently keeping their activities as a function of their solo performance. Perhaps guaranteeing that KM is an attribute of the institutions involved in the project is not enough for the project itself to present the benefits of KM, as you just said. Any help? ____________________________________________________________________ Railssa Peluti Alencar General Coordinator Forum for Studies and Research in Development FEPED - Universidade de Bras�lia www.multweb.com.br/fed Cel.: (11) 9911 6191 Tel.: (11) 3864 9667 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: Rua Caiowaa, 2046, Bl. 5 ap. 91 Perdizes S�o Paulo-SP 01258-010 ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, an NGO that is a GKP member*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
