Documentation for change - NETWORKING

ENRAP - Knowledge Networking for Rural Development in Asia/Pacific Region
http://www.enrap.org
ENRAP, an IFAD-IDRC collaboration, leverages a growing body of useful information generated by development projects and made available on the Internet. The program, now in its second phase and running until the end of 2005, is designed to bring the benefits of accessing and sharing global information resources to IFAD-supported rural development projects in the Asia/Pacific region. Effective use of Internet and electronic communication by project staff and, ultimately, by project communities will contribute to the empowerment of rural people and help them better address their development objectives. Their website provides an electronic space for collaborative work and exchange of information. It allows for interactive database access, posting of documents and photographs in native formats by all users, conducting electronic conferences, and contributing web pages on line. projects. Among the interesting information, this inlcudes a small guide for systematization, information on digital videos, and the Final Consolidated Summary of E-discussion on Systematization held between July 23rd-August 10th 2007. This summary is available here:
http://www.enrap.org/index.php?module=pnKnwMang&func=displayResource&kid=514&cid=116

Agroecologia em Rede
http://www.agroecologiaemrede.org.br
Agroecologia em Rede is a Brazilian database which presents agro-ecological field experiences, research information, persons and organizations. Freely available on the internet, this site was designed and constructed with the objective of facilitating interaction and stimulating learning among practitioners, academicians and decision makers. Information is presented according to the region or to a specific topic and is thus easy to find (in Portuguese).

International Institute for Communications and Development
http://www.iicd.org
P.O. Box 11586, 2502 AN The Hague, The Netherlands.
The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) assists developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). IICD works with its partner organisations in selected countries, helping local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development. The collection and dissemination of best practices and lessons learnt is an important tool in IICD’s role as a knowledge broker. Its main activities include the promotion of local networks of information partners in the countries where the institute works, and the distribution of the “ICT Stories”, which seek to capture the learning process accompanying the introduction and implementation of ICTs for development.

Mountain Voices
http://www.mountainvoices.org
This website presents interviews with over 300 people who live in mountain and highland regions around the world. Their testimonies offer a personal perspective on change and development. The interviews on this site have been gathered by the Oral Testimony Programme of the Panos Institute in partnership with local organisations. This programme aims to amplify the voices of those at the heart of development: people who are disadvantaged by poverty, gender, lack of education and other inequalities. Referring to many different themes, the collection includes testimonies from the communities in the Himalaya (India and Nepal); the Andes (Peru); the Sierra Norte (Mexico); Mount Elgon (Kenya); the highlands of Ethiopia and Lesotho; southwest and northeast China; the Sudety mountains (Poland); and the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan.

The Communication Initiative
http://www.comminit.com
5148 Polson Terrace, Victoria, British Columbia, V8Y 2C4 Canada.
The Communication Initiative provides a forum to share, debate and advance effective  ommunication for development progress. One of its programmes, the Drum Beat (also known as Son de Tambora in Spanish) is a weekly electronic publication sent by e-mail, exploring initiatives, ideas and trends in communication for development. The aim is to provide a space for debate and to develop more effective development communication practices.

CEAAL  Programa Latinoamericano de Apoyo a la Sistematizacion
http://www.alforja.or.cr/sistem/index.html
El Programa Latinoamericano de Apoyo a la Sistematización presenta un Directorio algunas de las personas e instituciones inscritas en él, además de una biblioteca virtual con una bibliografía detallada sobre la sistematizacion, incluyendo publicaciones, videos, programas radiales etc. sobre el tema, y de una biblioteca electrónica con documentos y textos importantes. Presenta también anuncios y eventos, y la posibilidad de inscribirse en una lista de interesados, la que pretende intercomunicar de manera abierta a todas aquellas personas interesadas en el tema de la sistematización, intercambiando reflexiones y experiencias; organizar "talleres electrónicos" sobre temas específicos y crear una base de información sobre sistematización de experiencias.

The Impact Alliance
http://www.impactalliance.org
The Impact Alliance is a global action network committed to strengthening the capacity of individuals and organizations to generate deep impact within the communities they serve.  It achieves this through assisting members to improve the quality, scale and social impact of their services and programs. The Impact Alliance facilitates access to local and international providers of innovative capacity building programs and services. Its mission is to inspire, inform, and improve practice and performance within organizations leading to the reduction of poverty and the achievement of sustainable livelihoods. Their website includes a specific section on M&E, and another one on knowledge management. Both includes numerous contacts, books and documents.

PROLINNOVA
http://www.prolinnova.net
Prolinnova is an NGO-initiated programme to build a global learning network to promote local innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and NRM. The focus is on recognising the dynamics of indigenous knowledge and enhancing capacities of farmers (including forest dwellers, pastoralists and fisherfolk) to adjust to change – to develop their own site-appropriate systems and institutions of resource management so as to gain food security, sustain their livelihoods and safeguard the environment. The programme builds on and scales up farmer-based approaches to development that start with discovering how farmers do informal experiments to develop and test new ideas for better use of natural resources. Their website includes a section on Farmer-Led Documentation, presenting specific information, like the Proceedings of the International Farmer-Led Documentation Workshop in Kampala, Uganda: Exchange and Capacity Building Workshop on Farmer-Led Documentation for Sustainable Agriculture / Natural Resource Management

Farming solutions
http://www.farmingsolutions.org
c/o Greenpeace International, Chausseestr. 131, 10115 Berlin, Germany
The aim of this site is to present real solutions to hunger and poverty. Farming Solutions brings examples of successful, environmentally responsible farming systems to life from all over the world, illustrating how farmers can protect the environment while at the same time increasing food supply where it is most needed. Interested individuals or organisations are invited to send their stories on ecologically sound farming practices from around the world.

Interdev
http://www.interdev-net.org/uk/interdev/index.htm
InterDev is a mutualist information service based on new information technologies whose construction began in 1999. It offers development practitioners validated references on experiences, techniques, and methods. In different thematic fields (food-processing, agro-ecological farming systems, etc.), a network of practitioners from developed and developing countries produces and makes available operational information based on their practices. This information is organised in databases, accessible through a Web site that is a platform for exchange between these development stakeholders. InterDev's purpose is to encourage development practitioners to produce and exchange information based on their practices and focused on their experiences, and the techniques and tools they use professionally.The information service does not bring together information specialists but rather practitioners in immediate contact with the realities in the field and development practices.

MandE News
http://www.mande.co.uk
This website brings varied information on Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation. This includes coming events, books, documents, the possibility of participating in a mailing list, and links to many other websites.

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis - Impact Pathways
http://boru.pbwiki.com
Impact pathways help the people involved in a project, program or organization make explicit their theories of change, in other words how they see themselves achieving their goals and having impact. Researchers from the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, the WorldFish Center and the International Potato Center are developing Impact Pathways models to provide plausible ex-ante (predicted) impact assessment, provide a basis for monitoring and evaluation, help project / program staff and partners clarify, make explicit and improve their theories about how change will happen. Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) describes the impact pathways in terms of two outputs: (i) a logic model that defines the causal chains of activities, outputs and outcomes through which a project is expected to achieve its purpose and goal; and (ii) network maps that show the evolving relationships between project implementing organizations, stakeholders and ultimate beneficiaries that are necessary to achieve the goal.

EBPDN - Evidence-Based Policy in Development Network
http://www.ebpdn.org
This website is a key outcome of ODI's Civil Society Partnership Programme (CSPP). This programme aims to establish a worldwide community of practice for think tanks, policy research institutes and similar organisations working in international development, to promote more evidence-based, pro-poor development policies. For more information on this programme, please see below. Specifically, this website is designed as a community website which provides: knowledge on bridging research and policy; details of members of the network; a directory of training and advisory expertise; discussion forums; project areas; and a partnership brokering area.

Intersard
http://www.infosard.net/intersard/home/home.htm
InterSard is an initiative to build a network of Southern and Northern partners for the documentation and sharing of information. Principally information that relates to social and technological innovations in sustainable agriculture and the management of natural resources in rural areas. InterSard is providing a public domain information service in combination with a capacity building programme for community supporting organisations in the South. Among its activities, it favours the establishment of a community of practice’, a community of practitioners in the field of rural development, sustainable agriculture and natural resources management; it stimulates the documentation, sharing and dissemination of ‘best practices’ in these fields; makes information of resource organisations including national and international research organisations, accessible through web-based tools. Their site includes a database with more that 170 records of Good practices.

KM4Dev
http://www.km4dev.org
KM for Development is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches. Its main discussion forum is the KM4Dev mailing list, where the sharing of ideas and experiences take place. KM4Dev is a community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches, and who seek to share ideas and experiences in this domain. Linked to the community is the KM4D Journal. It focuses on KM in development, which includes diverse knowledge management approaches in development organizations, large and small, in the South and in the North. Offering practice-based cases, analysis and research concerning the role of knowledge in development processes, it provides a forum for debate and exchange of ideas among practitioners, policy makers, academics and activists world-wide, and is a peer-reviewed, open access e-journal.

Oxfam KIC
http://www.oxfamkic.org