If that sounds familiar, you are not alone.
The scenario above illustrates the main knowledge management (KM) concern expressed by family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) professionals during four regional co-creation workshops hosted by Knowledge SUCCESS in mid-2020. Similar sentiments were highlighted across all four workshops—in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the United States—indicating this is a consistent KM challenge for FP/RH professionals regardless of location.
Unless you are a new Knowledge SUCCESS visitor, you may already be aware of the co-creation workshops and the important insights and ideas that came out of them. The workshops used a design thinking approach rooted in empathy and behavioral economics to help participants to identify common knowledge management barriers and challenges. These barriers and challenges limit the flow of family planning knowledge between programs, countries, and regions—but identifying them gives us opportunities to transform the way our FP/RH community approaches knowledge management.
The Opportunity: Create a tool to discover and curate family planning resources
Participants at all workshops expressed a desire for an online resource hub: somewhere to find timely resources from different projects and organizations curated in one place, save the ones that are most relevant for their particular context and needs, and easily return to them at any time.