Edward Addai

from the European Commission (EC) under the terms of the UNFPA/EC/GOG Project, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of the FRONTIERS Cooperative Agreement Number HRN-A-00-98-00012-00 and the Population Council under In-house Project 5800 53086. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors. Table of Contents Table of Contents............................................................................................................. ii List of Acronyms.............................................................................................................iii

The international development sector is first and foremost a knowledge industry. Knowledge management (KM), knowledge exchange (KE) and mutual learning are essential in understanding what does and does not work in development. Using that knowledge to support replication and scale-up of interventions is critical. KE is one of the key pillars of UNICEF’s Programme Monitoring and Response (PMR) Initiative. The key objective of the PMR Initiative, launched by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), is to enhance programme performance through a combination of strengthening real-time monitoring of community health and nutrition services, social accountability, evidence-based programme adjustments, and citizen feedback loops, and peer-to-peer learning within and among countries. The initiative has an integral KE component to strengthen knowledge sharing and foster continual learning by UNICEF, government staff, national communities and other partners in implementing cou...

The international development sector is first and foremost a knowledge industry. Knowledge management (KM), knowledge exchange (KE) and mutual learning are essential in understanding what does and does not work in development. Using that knowledge to support replication and scale-up of interventions is critical. KE is one of the key pillars of UNICEF’s (United Nations Children's Fund) Programme Monitoring and Response (PMR) Initiative. The key objective of the PMR Initiative, Fallah, N. and Addai, E. 2017. Creating a culture of knowledge exchange within and beyond UNICEF: Case of programme monitoring and response initiative Communities of Practice in development: a relic of the past or sign of the future? Knowledge Management for Development Journal 13(3): 88-99 http://journal.km4dev.org 98 launched by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO), is to enhance programme performance through a combination of strengthening real-time monitoring of community health and...

This chapter concentrates on the main reasons for the study. It starts by giving a general background of the study. It further gives the research problems and also justifies why the study was undertaken. It finally brings out some of the factors that were challenging to the study.