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Knowledge Sharing in Research project

Appropriate and effective knowledge sharing is important within all the CGIAR centers and with their partners in order to improve the effectiveness and impact of agricultural research. The ICT-KM program’s Knowledge Sharing in Research (KSinR) project is working toward a better understanding and wider utilization of knowledge systems, knowledge sharing approaches, and innovation mechanisms in research for development.

The main objectives of the KSinR project are to generate and share knowledge on good practices to improve collaboration, learning and delivery of research results, and to support application of such approaches across the CGIAR. One of the main knowledge generation mechanisms is through support to and learning from 6 CGIAR research projects which are being funded to pilot knowledge sharing approaches.

To find out more about the Knowledge Sharing in research (KSinR) project, visit its interactive website here.

You can also contribute your views and experience regarding Knowledge Sharing, or catch up on the latest news, on the KSinR blog.

The CPWF contributes to the KSinR initiative's Pilot Projects through the work and collaboration of its own projects and relationships:

KSinR Pilot Project: Application of KS tools to impact monitoring and project M&E to a community-based fish culture project in Vietnam
Centre: WorldFish
Project Leader: Dr. Natasja Sheriff
Location: Vietnam
CPWF affiliation: CPWF Project No. 35 Community-based fish culture in seasonal flood plains and irrigation systems

KSinR Pilot Project: Knowledge Management Harmonizing Research Output in the Northern Uplands of Laos PDR          
Centre:IRRI
Project Leader: Dr. Ben Samson
Location: Laos
CPWF affiliation: Some of the results being harmonised, packaged and added to the Rice Knowledge Bank are from CPWF projects including:

1) Inventories of community resources, indigenous knowledge (IRRI-IFAD-CPWF)
2) More effective strategies for rapid dissemination of technologies (IRRI-IFAD-CPWF)
3) Improved capacity of NARES to plan and implement integrative research and development (IRRI-IFAD-CPWF)
4) Improved rice-based cropping systems for uplands for raising farm productivity (IRRI-CPWF-DMC-CIRAD-CIAT)
5) Managing land and water resources of communities in a sustainable manner (IRRI-CPWF)
6) Improved rice varieties and crop and water management practices to raise water productivity (IRRI-CPWF)

KSinR Pilot Project: Safe food despite wastewater irrigation: A Knowledge Sharing Approach
Centre: IWMI
Project Leader: Tonya Schuetz
Location: Ghana (West Africa region)
CPWF affiliation: CPWF Project No. 51 The impact of wastewater irrigation on human health and food safety among urban communities in the Volta Basin

KSinR Pilot Project: International Farmers Conference
Centre: ICARDA
Project Leader: Dr. Stefania Grando
Location: Syria (with other locations)
CPWF affiliation: Related to work of ICARDA's Participatory Plant Breeding Program which includes CPWF Project No. 2 Water Productivity Improvement in Eritrea which was involved in the Farmers' Conference idea and implementation

KSinR Pilot Project: Shared Learning to Enhance Research Priority Assessment Practices
Centre: CIFOR
Project Leader: David Raitzer
Location: Global across CGIAR
CPWF affiliation: A chapter in a compendium being developed in this Pilot Project concerns research priority assessment methodology and experience in the CPWF, written by Boru Douthwaite, Ronald Mackay, Sophie Alvarez, J.D.H. Keatinge, Graham Thiele and Jamie Watts (Concordia University, CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food, CIP and Bioversity International)