Knowledge Management and Learning

Knowledge Management and Learning
Updated: 6 November 2009

Knowledge, and its transformation to meaningful action, is crucial to fighting poverty. Guided by its knowledge management framework, ADB works to become a learning institution and a primary source of development knowledge in Asia and the Pacific.

This site highlights ADB’s efforts to harness knowledge from its operations and shares the results of those efforts.

Overcoming ADB's Challenges to Learning

ADB identified key challenges that bar its progress as a learning institution. But while these challenges are significant, they are not insurmountable. Find out what specific and practical steps ADB has identified to overcome each one.

Knowledge Tools

	Enhancing Knowledge Management Strategies [ PDF: 1.67mb \| 13 pages ] Drawing a strategy is easier than executing it-strategy is both a macro and a micro phenomenon that depends on synchronization. One should systematically review, evaluate, prioritize, sequence, manage, redirect, or even cancel strategic initiatives.
	The Most Significant Change Technique [ PDF: 332kb \| 4 pages ] Stories of who did what, when, and why plus their systematic participatory interpretation, rather than quantitative indicators, make this technique useful for monitoring and evaluating the performance of projects and programs.
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Field Lessons

	When Size Matters: Improving Microfinance Outreach in Aceh Through a Revitalized Provincial Rural Bank Network [ PDF: 430kb \| 2 pages ] Aceh's rural banking services got a boost when 12 rural banks, each weakened by years of mismanagement, were consolidated into a single entity, now redesigned and retooled for fostering economic growth in the province.
	ADB's Regional Cooperation and Integration Today ADB leads the promotion of regional cooperation among the multilateral development banks. Increased lending for regional cooperation will require greater financial resources, technical expertise, and investment in knowledge products.
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What's New

Indonesia: Partnering with Communities for Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Aceh and Nias Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia
Drawing Learning Charters [ PDF: 482kb | 5 pages ]
Distributing Leadership [ PDF: 783kb | 8 pages ]
Exercising Servant Leadership [ PDF: 599kb | 6 pages ]

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Publications

How is the Global Recession Impacting on Poverty and Social Spending?
[ PDF: 297kb | 35 pages ]

This paper presents a simple methodology of ex ante impact assessment, focusing specifically on how the global recession will affect poverty and social expenditures in developing Asian countries.

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Knowledge Management and Learning