The Art of Knowledge Exchange : A Results-Focused Planning Guide for Climate Change Practitioners

Welcome to this customized edition of The Art of Knowledge Exchange.

Based on the original Art of Knowledge Exchange: A Results-Focused Planning Guide for Development Practitioners, this guide has been customized for climate change practitioners. It offers a practical step-bystep framework with illustrative examples on how to design, implement, and measure progress with regard to knowledge exchange initiatives. While the guide contains information that is of value to all those involved in knowledge exchange from the local to the global level, it is particularly geared to those who broker the exchange of knowledge and expertise on development challenges and solutions in the areas of clean technologies, climate resilience, energy access, and sustainable forests.

This guide will help practitioners to:

• Consider knowledge exchange within a broader programmatic and development context.
• Ensure that knowledge exchange initiatives are stakeholder owned and demand driven.
• Determine the challenges to reaching a solution. » Reflect on the change processes needed to address these challenges.
• Identify individuals or groups who can play effective roles in bringing about needed change.
• Choose the right mix of knowledge exchange instruments and activities to help participants learn, grow, and act.
• Implement in an adaptive and learning-focused manner.
• Measure and report the results of a knowledge exchange initiative.

This guide includes and refers to case studies and other examples of successful knowledge exchange initiatives in the clean technologies, climate resilience, energy access, and sustainable forests sectors, highlighting lessons learned from implementing these initiatives for high development impact. It also refl ects the experience of the Climate Investment Funds Administrative Unit, multilateral development banks, knowledge and learning professionals, government offi cials, stakeholders, and other international and development practitioners who have successfully integrated knowledge exchange as a part of a larger change process.