From “The Impacts of CIAT’s Collaborative Research” Edgar Alfonso Rodríguez is among the thousands of young professionals who  have benefited from CIAT’s important contribution to strengthening national  research capacity. He is working on his Ph.D. in soil and water management  under the joint supervision of Elena Velásquez, a soil science professor at  the Palmira campus of
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This past week in the PABRA Knowledge Sharing workshop, we had a full afternoon doing a People- centered Outcomes exercise. (Not to be confused with, but closely linked to People Centered Evaluation (PCE) approach) The whole session went well, and we were pleasantly surprised to see how people responded to the exercises by staying late
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After six months of working together as the Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management Initiative, let’s look at what we have been able to achieve so far and where we need to channel further efforts in order to implement the activities and obtain the results that we sat out for.

Tomorrow I will be giving a seminar at CIAT entitled: Capacity Strengthening and Knowledge Management: The Way ahead for CIAT. I will be suggesting overarching principles –Learning for Capacity Strengthening; Stakeholder engagement for Knowledge Management—and I will be discussing the inherent issues that we have to address. 10 top recommendations will be made.

Perhaps my understanding of the key take-aways of the KMIC conference was a case of ‘making lemonade because what I have is lemons’. Everything seemed to resound with the same “good old questions” of both Knowledge Management (KM) and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). The main issue: how do we go from assessing outputs to assessing outcomes of KM? The
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