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Knowledge for Development Partnership

Welcome at K4DP (Knowledge for Development Partnership), which was founded under Austrian law at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 3 April 2017 during the “Knowledge for Development: Global Partnership Conference”.

We are a non-profit organisation (NGO) which promotes the global advancement of peaceful, wealthy, sustainable, and inclusive knowledge societies, fosters global knowledge partnerships for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and implements the Agenda 2030.

With partners from all over the world, K4DP aims to localize and implement the global Agenda Knowledge for Development.

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Joint Centre for Knowledge Sciences at International University of Management and Khatam University are established!

The Launch of K4DP´s School of Knoweldge Sciences was a great success, and we are very happy to announce that at the same time, the launch of the two Joint Centres for Knowledge Sciences at the International University of Management, Namibia, and at Khatam University, Iran, could be celebrated.

The KM Award 2020 and Launch Ceremony was a milestone in the further advancement of K4DP and Kimiz Dalkir as well as UNICEF could be celebrated as winners of the Knowledge Management Award. Additionally, FSDZ Financial Sector Deepening Zambia received the Golden KM4D Award, a recognition of implementing KM according to the KM4D Framework with the outstanding achievements in linking it with Financial inclusion in Zambia and playing the lead role in the FSD Network through KM.

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About us

K4DP aims to include stakeholder groups from all over the world to create, drive and implement the Agenda Knowledge for Development for better knowledge sharing and collaboration, increased competence in knowledge management, and better conditions for individual knowledge work.

National knowledge partnerships have been established to localize the agenda and set local, national and regional initiatives. Communication platforms are established to bring together the K4D community to learn, share, and perform better together.

Agenda for Knowledge Development

The Agenda is aimed at providing a universal knowledge framework offering guiding principles, nurturing the dialogue on knowledge, strengthening global knowledge ecosystems and, ultimately, contributing to
better success in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Based on the statements of 130 experts and representatives of multi-stakeholder communities, this Agenda has been presented in its current version in April 2017 at the UN Office in Geneva.

School of Knowledge Sciences

The School of Knowledge Sciences provides academic education and training, research, communication and outreach as well as art activities. The global faculty includes world-leading experts and practitioners. The K4D Challenge 2021 will be the flagship programme combining education/training with real action and outreach, grounded in research and collaborating with artists.

The School of Knowledge Sciences is acting in cooperation with academic institutions, some of which are establishing Centres of Knowledge Sciences at their campus.

Statements for the Agenda K4D

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Mamun Rashid

Mamun Rashid Managing Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bangladesh The concept of knowledge management is actually as old as the human civilization itself. There is no denying the fact that the generation, accumulation, sharing and utilization of knowledge has been the fuel that...

Syed Ishtiaque Reza

Syed Ishtiaque Reza Editor in Chief, GTV Bangladesh economy has experienced tremendous growth in some selected industries such as readymade garment, leather, food-processing and service sector like information technology over the last two decades. The country also made...

Inam Ahmed

Inam Ahmed EditorThe Business Standard Since SDG is a global collective commitment to make life better free of poverty, hunger and to establish equality, access to resources and better environment, the effort to achieve this is quite a lofty task especially in the backdrop of...

Syed Khaled Ahsan

Syed Khaled Ahsan The World Bank Office in Bangladesh Knowledge and development are complementary to each other. The connotation of knowledge is broad in the context of development. There is a need for a culture to be patronized by the state and a habit by its citizens to live...

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Next Level Academy founded

Vienna, 27 August 2020. Youth is a key actor in societal transformation. Evidently they play a key role in the advancement of knowledge societies....

Kenyan Knowledge Agenda

At the global K4DP Conference 2019 at the UN Office in Nairobi, K4DP and the Kenyan Ministry of Devolution and ASALs joined forces to develop a...

1st Knowledge for Development Partnership Meeting in Berlin

Berlin, November 2019 – On the 20th of November K4DP had its first K4DP-meeting in Berlin in partnership with the WWF, hosted at the Heinrich-Böll...

School of Knowledge Sciences initiated

Strengthening academic research and education has been on the Agenda Knowledge for Development since its first launch in 2016. However, it took...

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K4DP Launch and Award Ceremony 17 December 2020

Nov 25, 2020

On 17 December 2020, 4-6pm Vienna-time (CET), K4DP will celebrate its achievements of the year by launching its key innovations of 2020: The School...