Roxanna Samii

IFADWestern and Central Africa, regional implementation workshop

Accra, Ghana, 2 December 2009

Knowledge sharing methods

Why use knowledge sharing methods?

• At the CDD workshop, you told us you enjoyed using them

• More interaction with all participants

• Everyone is a peer

• Everyone has opportunity to share their experience

• Everyone has opportunity to learn from each other

• No powerpoint presentations!!!

• A way of giving and adding value

Knowledge sharing methods will be using

• Chat show

• World Café

• Speed geeking

Chat show

• Listen and give

• Engage in real time interaction

• Involve and participate

World Cafe

• Opportunity to meet new people

• Collaborative dialogue

• Connect diverse perspectives

• Principles of World Café- Focus on what matters- Contribute your thinking- Speak your mind- Link and connect ideas- Listen together for deeper insights and

questions

World Cafe

• Three (3) progressive rounds of conversation with each round addressing one question

• Each table chooses a table host• At the end of each round, participants

are invited to move to a different table and table host stays behind

• New question discussed while linking and connecting ideas with previous conversation rounds.

• Use paper tablecloths to create a visual memory of the conversation

• Play, draw, doodle, share and learn while having fun!

Speed geeking

• Share information with a large audience

• Cafe table hosts have 10 minutes to present their finding at their stand

• Divide yourselves in groups of 7 and make sure you visit at least one table host per thematic group

Have fun

• Participate

• Connect

• Learn

• Share

• Indulge

•Make new friends

Social reporting channels

• IFAD social reporting bloghttp://ifad-un.blogspot.com

• IFAD twitter accounthttp://www.twitter.com/ifadnews

Where to go

• Chat show- Capacity building in the plenary- Value chain: room 2 (second floor)- Rural finance: room 3 (third floor)

• World café- Capacity building: room 1 (second floor)- Value chain: room 2 (second floor)- Rural finance: room 3 (third floor)

• Speed geeking- Open space