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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

What our Agenda contains

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Shahidul Alam

Shahidul Alam Photographer, writer, human rights activist. Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. The development lens has largely focused on basic needs. On the availability of material things. For our life to have meaning, we need more than merely the ability to survive. We...

Ms. Shaheen Anam

Ms. Shaheen Anam Executive DirectorManusher Jonno Foundation Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) formed a Knowledge Management Team (KMT) in April 2018 for gathering evidence on what works, what does not work and capture lesson learned from its programmes. KMT is also contributing...

Dr. Ali Riaz

Dr. Ali Riaz Professor, Department of Politics and Government, Illinois State University and Non-resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, USA Politics is essentially a process of comprehending the rights as citizens, understanding the responsibilities, exercising these...

Sumaiya Khair Ph.D.

Sumaiya Khair Ph.D. Professor of Law, University of Dhaka& Adviser, Executive Management, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) For years now, legal reform initiatives have been focusing on empowering the poor and the marginalized to make strategic use of the law to...