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Sustainability is a buzzword, but what does it mean for organisations? Being sustainable, and especially financially sustainable means that the organisation has the ability to adapt to new circumstances and to develop resilience in uncertain times. Those organisations which fall into the category of “financially sustainable” have a greater potential to...
Often, M&E Systems for large organisations, for example ministerial departments, can struggle to ‘touch the ground’ in terms of getting any meaningful information from the reality in the field. Results Based Management approaches and systems based on national policy have positives and negatives. The positives of national RBM systems is the...
While among practitioners in Knowledge Management (KM) there is no commonly accepted framework to measure the beneficial impact of the practice,[1] KM is an important discipline which in the past decade has attracted more attention across organisations for a reason. “Knowledge is power”, it is the power within an organisation which...
After completing my BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences (Anthropology), I knew I wanted to pursue a career in international development, and the opportunity to intern at IMA was an ideal starting point. I worked at IMA for a month in July, starting the week commencing their summer courses in Brighton. During...
It is understood that we face volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) times - where “wicked problems” abound – that’s to say problems whose solutions require a great number of people to change mind-sets and behaviour. As individuals, we are all members of groups, teams, organisations, networks and even movements of some...
For the second year running, Ruth Jolly and Silvia Capezzuoli took part in the UK-based KMbForum, an annual event for those with a passion for ensuring that knowledge makes a positive difference to society. This year the theme was ‘Crafting our Knowledge Stories’ and the Forum took place in the amazing Seven...
In the last few years we have been having conversations with clients, participants and each other about how to evaluate training. If you have attended an IMA International learning event it is likely you will have completed some monitoring on a daily basis, usually in small groups, as well as an...
It is an amazing feeling to see the ripple effect of the training we ran in December 2017 on Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAFM) for REBYC-LAC II. IMA has been supporting EAFM initiatives since 2013, initially in Asia and more recently in Latin America and the Caribbean, promoting the sustainable and...
I’ve increasingly been struck this year with the strength of the notion that the way the problem is understood and depicted determines what we do. And the idea that language is generative is becoming more alive to me in all the recent work we’ve been up to. Talking about organisations, for example,...
The place we inhabit as knowledge brokers/ mobilisers can often be a lonely place, one of filling the gaps between ‘spaces’ so I was looking forward to my first KMb Forum. I was not sure what to expect, as most of the Forum participants were practitioners and academics from the UK...
As you read this, slowly move your toes. Feel your feet touching the inside of your shoes, and the sensation of your heels and the pads of your toes on the floor. Really think about what your feet feel like right now, their weight on the floor. If you’ve never heard of mindfulness...
30 degrees on a lazy Sunday afternoon and we found ourselves having several deep conversations with a few of the participants on our M&E course in Brighton. My son, studying for an A level Chemistry exam the next day, said he would say hi and then have to get back to...
I was disappointed I didn’t get to meet Ian Macdonald, the founder of Ian Macdonald Associates which later became IMA International. Overlooking the MacLeod/Macdonald ancient rivalry I think we had some notable common interests, mainly an appreciation of film. I started working for IMA by creating a promotional film this later progressed...