Capacity development through knowledge sharing

capacity4dev.eu: EC’s Knowledge Sharing Platform on Development Capacity4dev.eu = CD through Knowledge Sharing! Promote Capacity Development as a priority of our cooperation 4 pillars : 1.Consolidate knowledge and build Institutional Memory 2.Support Thematic Expertise, break down the silos 3.Support good practice and innovation exchange / help identify specialists 4.Cross-learning among practitioners from EC, EEAS, MS, Donors, International Organisations, private sector, CSOs, Governments, Academia…

What is offered: Fast Facts Professionals from all over the world staff (EC/EEAS) from Private Cos, CSOs, Government, Donors etc 450+ Knowledge pieces Posts in 350+ Groups & 50+ Projects Access to a large community of development practitioners from across the world knowledge pieces (Voices and Views) on a great variety of themes backed with video and references updated weekly – Access to professional Video / journalist Team to help cover your events Knowledge sharing tools for teams: Fully fledged free Groupware for the development community: Public, EU, EC or Private groups with: Group site - wiki, Blog, full document library, events, survey tool, task management tool, members rooster, group taxonomies, powerful search.. Projects : share knowledge on projects Your profile page, mail notifications, personal recommendations Secure hosting (EC Infrastructure)

An active Community! In the Past Year : more than page views from more than users (09/ /2015) in the past 3 months 12 New communities of practice / groups started 16 new Voices and Views published 123 new events / workshops shared 284 New group pages added 386 new images and photos shared 615 Blog posts contributed 1251 new documents uploaded AND 952 New members joined our community

Increase your Personal Capacity : Learn: Voices and views, Thematic groups Make your work or expertise visible : profile / people section Get support from CoP / peers, find expertise in thematic groups Online collaboration tools in groups to Build-up your Knowledge : group site / pages Share updates, ideas and ask questions: Blogs Share your work, documents and files : Document library + Taxonomies / filters Capitalise on your workshops : events pages + Task management, surveys etc Projects : Lessons Learned & experiences shared from other projects

Improve Our Organisation's Capacity: - To retain knowledge / stop reinventing of the wheel: knowledge online - not on s : The nightmare - Resilience and adaptability: retain knowledge and capacity despite people turn around, reorganisations, staff cuts - Cross learning among thematics + among various parts of the institution - Open our knowledge to and learn from partners, ngos, private sector, governments - Capitalise on the huge knowledge and expertise that stems from the implementation of thousands of projects : today stays mostly with the consultants and NGOs implementing our programmes - Re-consolidate the knowledge of hundreds of project / programme websites onto capacity4dev - Offer an open consultation space : internal and external

A solution that can serve the needs of other Commission Directorates looking for knowledge sharing and collaboration capabilities (in close collaboration with DIGIT in that respect) or that can be offered as a software distribution that can be re- deployed by EU Member States and partners; The project is in line with the multiple simplification and rationalisation exercises both in DEVCO and Commission wide, in which capacity4dev plays an important role, both consolidating multiple platforms, websites and communities of practice in a common knowledge sharing space as well as offering generic tools and capabilities to other DGs; The improvement of the platform will allow delivering on management expectations and commitments taken at the level of the "knowledge and learning development strategy" and the "Internal communication action plan" approved by management respectively in November 2014 and July These commitments include concrete actions and functionality to support knowledge sharing, learning and improving internal communication;

Join the community today! As simple as … 1,2,3 1. Become a member of capacity4dev 2. Look for groups you should be joining and request membership or start a new group 3. … start learning and contributing your experience! We are here to help you come on-board! or Online help and guidance

The new capacity4dev Continuously improved since first launch in 2009 with a major reconstruction phase now underway : better usability and design, improved discussion spaces, better taxonomies and search, adopting EU branding (not DEVCO) Future: Multilingual, mail-to-web, connecting to COM external LMS (moodle based)