New Journal Issue: Learning From the past; Impact of Information and Knowledge Management on Individuals and Organizations Over Decades (KM4Dev)

A new special issue of the KM4D Journal namely ‘Learning from the past: impact of information and knowledge management on individuals and organizations over decades’ Volume 16, issue 1 has been published.

Many of the contributions in this Issue  include contributions written by the past Director of an organization which has closed, looking back at the political realities of its closure (Caroline Figueres), a development worker who took part in a livestock project in Mozambique, arguing with hindsight that the project demonstrated epistemic injustices (Birgit Boogaard), a framework which aims to support knowledge retention in development organizations, based on research in many United Nations (UN) organizations (Rocio Sanz and John Hovell), two contributions on information and knowledge management practices related to COVID-19 at UNICEF (Nima Fallah and colleagues) and in West Africa for CARE International (Alfred Makavore and Emily Janoch), as well as a case study of a agricultural development project in Mali for young people, in French with an English abstract (Makono Coulibaly).

The issue was inspired by the recent closure of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), a joint international institution of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union, after 35 years of existence. Two of the contributions reflect on parts of the organization’s legacy: one case study focuses on knowledge and data management practice while CTA was closing (Mejury Shiri and colleagues) and another provides a detailed analysis of a project, the Ghana Question and Answer Service, which closed some 10 years ago (Joel Sam). The Editorial Team for this issue also reflects on the legacy of CTA in the video  CTA and the culture of learning.

The contents comprise:

Editorial
Learning from the past: impact of information and knowledge management on individuals and organizations over decades
Jorge Chavez-Tarfur; Sarah Cummings; Ibrahim Khadar, Rocio Sanz (1-7)Papers
Knowledge retention framework and maturity model: improving an organization or team’s capability to retain critical knowledge
Rocio Sanz and John Hovell (8-27)

Epistemic injustice in agricultural development: critical reflections on a livestock development project in rural Mozambique
Birgit Boogaard (28-54)

Case studies
Documenting UNICEF’s response to COVID-19: applied tools and practices
Nima Fallah, Ivan Butina and Sailas Nyareza (55-66)

Knowledge and data management during project execution and organisational closure: learning from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development (CTA)
Mejury Shiri, Imelda Mechtilde Aniambossou, Aichetou Ba, Josina M. Leguit (67-77)

Lessons from Working with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA): The Case of the Ghana-Question and Answer Service (Ghana-QAS)
Joel Sam (78-98)

Mécanisme d’insertion et d’appui à l’Entreprenariat des jeunes ruraux dans les filières agricoles, Mali/Mechanism for the integration and support of rural youth entrepreneurship in agricultural sectors, Mali

Makono Coulibaly (99-104)