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Knowledge for Development Partnership

Welcome to K4DP – the 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) promoting the global advancement of peaceful, wealthy, sustainable, and inclusive knowledge societies, fostering global knowledge partnerships for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and implementing 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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KM Award 2020 going to UNICEF and Prof. Kimiz Dalkir (McGill University)

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

K4DP has launched the School of Knowledge Sciences in December 2020 and we proudly announce that the first Joint Centre for Knowledge Sciences has been established at the International University of Management, Namibia.

The KM Award 2020 Ceremony highlighted the achievements of UNICEF as an International Organisation with its meaningful, strategic, global and integrated KM Approach, specifically reflecting its recently published Global KM Medium-Term Strategy 2021-2022.

The individual KM Award was given to Kimiz Dalkir (photo right), Professor at McGill University, Canada, for her outstanding achievements in academic teaching, research and publishing. Her book “Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice (MIT Press)” is outstanding, inspiring and influencial on a global level. We gratulate the winners of the Award! The KM Award is a programme of Knowledge Management Austria – one of the initiators of K4DP – since 2009.

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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...