Overview

The objective of UNDP-GEF's knowledge management efforts is to leverage lessons learned from projects, and to replicate successes. The primary target group is UNDP country office staff, who is the main interlocutors with in-country partners. Intended beneficiaries also include project teams, consultants and global environment practitioners. To achieve this objective, UNDP-GEF draws on the wealth of experience from its portfolio of nearly 1,000 medium to large-scale projects and close to 5,000 small-scale projects. Knowledge management at UNDP-GEF is based on four pillars.

Development of information systems to monitor and evaluate the UNDP-GEF portfolio; analysis and codification of lessons learnt through generation of knowledge products and services. Knowledge dissemination through existing UNDP mechanisms. Knowledge uptake, which is critical for ensuring that knowledge products and services are not only applied and used, but also further improved through such use.

The UNDP/GEF Project for steel re-rolling mills seeks to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by improving end-use energy efficiency in the sector, which mainly represents small and medium enterprises (SME). The project enables the steel re-rolling mills to adopt more energy efficient and environment friendly technologies by bridging knowledge gap, developing leadership and enabling private sector investments.

It is one of the first energy efficiency projects for the SME sector that has been developed in consultation with key stakeholders that include industry, banks and financial institutions, technology providers and domestic equipment manufactures consultants, institutions, government agencies and departments.

UNDP GEF wanted to implement a Knowledge Management Portal which will primarily consist of a Data Bank, in the form of a web enabled database. The data to be made available in this bank will mainly be of three types, with access allowed at various levels to the different types of stakeholders:

Complimentary Knowledge (Free of Cost, accessible freely from the website) Charged Services (Different levels of knowledge for different types of members) Internal Knowledge / Information (For consultancy, etc., and will be the most detailed data base of knowledge with inputs from all programs / teams of the project)

Solution

COMM-IT was awarded this project basis it’s Portal Development Practices where we take holistic view of an organization—reviewing not only the technology aspects but the information governance, people and processes so that associated capabilities relate back to the strategy ensuring that KM solutions are most effective. Our strategy framework therefore provides a road map for clients that are involved in assessing and planning enterprise content management solutions.

Key Features

Subscription Search Document management Knowledge Acquisition and Category Stakeholders management Knowledge Warehouse Response Tracking