Sub-Component 7 Development of a Framework for Climate Knowledge Management and Capacity Development for the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources ARID LANDS INFORMATION NETWORK

ALIN is an NGO that facilitates information and knowledge exchange to and between extension workers or infomediaries and arid lands communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Our Vision A knowledge driven society The Mission To improve the livelihoods of arid lands communities in East Africa through delivery of practical information using modern technologies.

Award winning NGO – Accolades in Access to Learning Award (ATLA) of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – US$1million: for providing public library services, the internet and computers to marginalised communities free of charge 2. Award from the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources: Best in Information Dissemination and Knowledge Management – NGO Category during the 2011 national Climate Change Exhibition.

Accolades for Top 100 organisations in CIO 100 East Africa – For using ICTs innovatively for better business value, creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving livelihoods 4. Ashoka Fellowship for founding director, James Nguo, for conceiving the Maarifa centres concept

Maarifa centres A room and in some cases a modified shipping container equipped with at least five computers connected to the internet. Located in a remote semi-arid place in East Africa

Maarifa centres Each has a full time field officer employed by ALIN Contains other information products: books, CD ROMS, DVDs and periodicals 12 centres across east Africa (Kenya – 7, Uganda – 3, Tanzania 2)

Sub-Component 7: Planned assignment outcomes i.A Policy Analysis showing the extent to which climate change programmes in Kenya align with the UNFCCC and other Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) as well as the NCCRS ii.A Capacity Building Plan of Action for organisations dealing with climate change in Kenya. iii.An online Knowledge Management Platform for climate change knowledge exchange

Policies review To assess how well aligned current climate change programmes are with international and national instruments: UNFCCC and the NCCRS among others. To assess the extent to which key institutions are guided by these instruments and make appropriate recommendations

UNFCCC: Capacity building and knowledge management Kyoto ProtocolNCCRS Other policies and strategies COPsReview

Development of a Climate Change Knowledge Management Platform Such a platform can fulfil five functions: Learning Sharing Collection Consolidation Innovation

Learning A website whose primary purpose is learning focuses on unilateral transfer of knowledge, whereby users acquire knowledge from the website but are not able to contribute their own.

Sharing Ensuring that the users have access to what all members have contributed. A sharing website neither processes the knowledge nor does it complement it with additional information of its own.

Connecting Enabling users to connect and constantly interact with each other.

Consolidating Helping users to assimilate vast quantities of knowledge by offering it to them in digested, ready-to-use formats from elsewhere. Notably, though a consolidating website processes the knowledge it collects, it never complements it with original knowledge of its own.

Innovation An innovation website collects and processes existing knowledge and attempts to use it to move beyond the status quo, challenging existing assumptions and generating new ideas, perspectives and findings. One platform can perform all 5 functions

Presentation by Patrick Kinoti or David Kimaru

The Process of the developing the Knowledge Portal will be as follows: Consulting stakeholders to understand their knowledge needs Validation Modular development Implementation and UAT

1. Requirements Gathering This is the stage whereby the users will explicitly explain the behaviors they expect from the software. It includes the interactions they expect to do and the results they expect from the system. The output for this process will be Draft Software Requirements Specification Document

2. Validation This is the review of the Software Specifications. At this stage we confirm that all the specifications are properly captured. This stage may lead to the previous stage if there are specifications which are improperly captured The output of this stage is the Final Software Specification Document This will lead to functional specification

4. Modular Development We aggregate the functionalities into the modules. Participatory development starts at this stage with increments being delivered at every stage. Developmental testing takes place in each development stage

5. Implementation and UAT Once the system is fully developed, implementation training, User acceptance tests take place. Comparison is done between the User Requirements and the software delivered. All errors are corrected.

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