scholarly journals The future of knowledge brokering: perspectives from a generational framework of knowledge management for international development

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 781-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cummings ◽  
Suzanne Kiwanuka ◽  
Helen Gillman ◽  
Barbara Regeer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
International Development ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
Knowledge Brokering ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Future

Knowledge brokering has a crucial role in the field of international development because it is able to act as a cognitive bridge between many different types of knowledge, such as between local and global knowledge. Much of the research on knowledge brokering has focused on knowledge brokering between research, policy and practice, rather than looking at its wider implications. In addition, there appears to be no literature on the future of knowledge brokering, either within or outside the development sector. Given the apparent absence of literature on the future of knowledge brokering, a discussion group was held with experts in the field of knowledge management for development (KM4D) in April 2017 to consider their opinions on the future of knowledge brokering. Their opinions are then compared to the generational framework of KM4D, developed in a series of iterations by researchers in mainstream (non-development) knowledge management (KM) and KM4D researchers. In this framework, five generations of KM4D with different key perspectives, methods and tools have been identified. Based on the inputs from the experts in the discussion group, the future of knowledge brokering practice in international development appears to resemble practice-based, fourth generation KM4D, while there is some evidence of the emergence of fifth generation KM4D with its more systematic, societal perspective on knowledge. Given that the Sustainable Development Goals are providing a universal framework which is relevant to both organizational and societal KM4D, a new systemic conceptualization of KM4D is proposed which brings both of these strands together in one integrated framework linked to the SDGs. The SDGs also support the call for a new knowledge brokering practice with a greater emphasis on brokering knowledge between organizational and societal actors.

Building Success in Development and Peacebuilding by Caring for Carers: A Guide to Research, Policy and Practice to Ensure Effective, Inclusive and Responsive Interventions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Gordon ◽  
Briony Jones
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Individual

The experiences and marginalisation of international organisation employees with caring responsibilities has a direct negative impact on the type of security and justice being built in conflict-affected environments. This is in large part because international organisations fail to respond to the needs of those with caring responsibilities, which leads to their early departure from the field, and negatively affects their work while in post. In this toolkit we describe this problem, the exacerbating factors, and challenges to overcoming it. We offer a theory of change demonstrating how caring for carers can both improve the working conditions of employees of international organisations as well as the effectiveness, inclusivity and responsiveness of peace and justice interventions. This is important because it raises awareness among employers in the sector of the severity of the problem and its consequences. We also offer a guide for employers for how to take the caring responsibilities of their employees into account when developing human resource policies and practices, designing working conditions and planning interventions. Finally, we underscore the importance of conducting research on the gendered impacts of the marginalisation of employees with caring responsibilities, not least because of the breadth and depth of resultant individual, organisational and sectoral harms. In this regard, we also draw attention to the way in which gender stereotypes and gender biases not only inform and undermine peacebuilding efforts, but also permeate research in this field. Our toolkit is aimed at international organisation employees, employers and human resources personnel, as well as students and scholars of peacebuilding and international development. We see these communities of knowledge and action as overlapping, with insights to be brought to bear as well as challenges to be overcome in this area. The content of the toolkit is equally relevant across these knowledge communities as well as between different specialisms and disciplines. Peacebuilding and development draw in experts from economics, politics, anthropology, sociology and law, to name but a few. The authors of this toolkit have come together from gender studies, political science, and development studies to develop a theory of change informed by interdisciplinary insights. We hope, therefore, that this toolkit will be useful to an inclusive and interdisciplinary set of knowledge communities. Our core argument - that caring for carers benefits the individual, the sectors, and the intended beneficiaries of interventions - is relevant for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Criminological responses to climate change

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Regional Interests

This concluding chapter summarises the main propositions and areas of concern for Climate Change Criminology. It also emphasises the role of criminologists as public intellectuals and political activists, and the necessity that there be stewards and guardians of the future. This translates into prioritising research, policy, and practice around climate change themes. For criminologists, this means that they need to go beyond parochial viewpoints and those perspectives that frame harm in terms of national or regional interests. Their loyalty has to be to the planet as a whole, rather than being bound by a narrow prescriptive patriotism based on nation. Ultimately, the endeavour of Climate Change Criminology should be to create the conditions for a future that is more forgiving and generous rather than exploitive of humans, environments, and animals.

scholarly journals English in the multilingual classroom: implications for research, policy and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Brutt-Griffler
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Research ◽  
High Level

Purpose The shift in the function of English as a medium of instruction together with its use in knowledge construction and dissemination among scholars continue to fuel the global demand for high-level proficiency in the language. These components of the global knowledge economy mean that the ability of nations to produce multilinguals with advanced English proficiency alongside their mastery of other languages has become a key to global competitiveness. That need is helping to drive one of the greatest language learning experiments the world has ever known. It carries significant implications for new research agendas and teacher preparation in applied linguistics. Design/methodology/approach Evidence-based decision-making, whether it pertains to language policy decisions, instructional practices, teacher professional development or curricula/program building, needs to be based on a rigorous and systematically pursued program of research and assessment. Findings This paper seeks to advance these objectives by identifying new research foci that underscore a student-centered approach. Originality/value It introduces a new theoretical construct – multilingual proficiency – to underscore the knowledge that the learner develops in the process of language learning that makes for the surest route to the desired high levels of language proficiency. The paper highlights the advantages of a student-centered approach that focuses on multilingual proficiency for teachers and explores the concomitant conclusions for teacher development.

Critical Thinking on Disability and Development in the Global South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Grech
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Global North ◽  
Development Goals

The need to focus on disability in the Global South as an academic and practice endeavor has garnered some support in recent years, often backed by frequent references to a disability and poverty relationship, and a consequent need to link disability and international development. Indeed, calls for disability mainstreaming, disability targeting, and emerging discourse on disability-inclusive development (DID) have stepped up, accompanied by policy developments and declarations such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the sustainable development goals (SDGS). Despite these shifts, disability remains marginalized in development research, policy, and programs. Overall, there is a lack of critical discussion on “disability and development,” and difficult questions, including those regarding the implications of development for disabled people, are often forsaken in favor of an approach that seeks to simplify and generalize. The result is that accounts on disability and development are not only partial and fragmented but also neocolonizing. Inspired by critical disability studies and decolonial theory, this chapter reflects critically on some of these concerns, addressing emerging issues that arise when Global North disability discourse and “development” confront complex and dynamic heterogeneous Southern spaces and disability.

scholarly journals Audit as Accountability: Technical Authority and Expertise in the Governance of Private Financing for Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 096466392199210
Author(s):  
Celine Tan
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
External Finance ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Private Financing

The paper examines the emergence of a new landscape of international development finance that is blurring traditional boundaries between public and private resources for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other global public goods (GPGs). In the SDG financing ecosystem, private actors are no longer passive bystanders in the development process but as active contributors to and investors in development projects and programmes. The paper argues that the emerging ‘private turn’ in the architecture of development finance represents a technology of governance that is rooted in the assemblage of international development policy and practice. This regime constitutes an emerging complex and often problematic framework of organising and managing countries’ access to external finance and establishing their terms of engagement with the broader global economy.

scholarly journals Crime and victimisation in the era of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Robert Peacock
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The United Nations

Crime and victimisation have reached epidemic proportions. By fostering sustainable development within the social, economic and environmental spheres, the United Nations envisaged the strengthening of crime prevention and justice. However, within the global North/South divide there is little reason to assume that criminological and victimological interventions, development programmes or economic reforms can ever fully resolve the underlying causes of many victimological harms that affect developing or developed countries, unless and until they lead to greater freedom, equality and justice. Intersecting inequalities and social and economic exclusion highlight the importance of context and the complex geopolitical, institutional and ideological landscapes that gave rise to this global agenda. Together with the associated challenges for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a critical appraisal of the nexus between crime, victimisation, justice and sustainable development on account of the gravest threat to humanity, namely climate change and environmental degradation, remains a functional imperative for research, policy and practice.

scholarly journals Knowledge management in future organizations

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon-Arild Johannessen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Future

The question addressed in this paper is linked to the future of knowledge management. The problem is that we don’t know how knowledge resources will benefit the organization of the future. The purpose in this article is to give some tentative answers to knowledge management, organizational design and leadership issues in the global knowledge economy.

scholarly journals Volunteering and the Sustainable Development Goals: an opportunity to move beyond boundaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-260
Author(s):  
Angela Ellis Paine ◽  
Cliff Allum ◽  
Danielle Beswick ◽  
Benjamin J. Lough
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Global North ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Uk

There is growing recognition of the role that volunteering can play in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Evidence of its contribution, however, remains relatively weak, including for countries in the Global North such as the UK. This is compounded by limited collaboration between those concerned with volunteering and those concerned with development. The SDGs provide an opportunity to bring together research, policy and practice on volunteering and development, and on international and ‘domestic’ volunteering, enabling valuable interdisciplinary learning.

Social Sustainability: A Dwarf among giants in the Sustainable Development Pillars?

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
Justice Mensah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social

Although sustainable development (SD) has social, economic, and environmental dimensions as its pillars, the social aspect is virtually overlooked in development debates, making it the least conceptually developed and addressed in policy and practice. This paper draws on literature review to illuminate the concept of social sustainability (SS) and how it could be better appreciated and promoted. Data were sourced from scholarly databases and grey literature, and analysed using the qualitative content analysis approach. The review reflects the consensus that SS is essentially about maintaining an appreciable level of social wellbeing for both the present and future generations. Key factors for promoting and maintaining SS include, but are not limited to; equity, peace and security, freedom, education, justice, health, participation and inclusion, and empowerment, which can be achieved mainly through good governance and commitment. SS is inherently intertwined with environmental and economic sustainability. The main ways by which SS can be mainstreamed are; planning, research, policy, advocacy and sensitisation, as well as monitoring and evaluation at the local, national, and international levels. The UN, governments, non-governmental organisations, academic and research institutions, business enterprises, and civil society have critical roles to play in mainstreaming SS in the SD agenda. These key stakeholders need to collaborate to make strategic interventions and investments in relevant social issues to inform policy and practice regarding the social dimension of sustainable development. The paper contributes to the debate on mainstreaming social sustainability in the sustainable development agenda.

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