Knowledge SUCCESS received funding from USAID’s East Africa Regional Mission to support Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (RIGOs) and other nonprofit partners in achieving FP/RHprogrammatic goals. Since 2019, the Knowledge SUCCESS East Africa team has nurtured a culture of knowledge sharing in the region. Through events, strategic partnerships, and the establishment of an active regional community of practice (TheCollaborative), the team strengthens capacity in and practice of knowledge management (KM), with the ultimate goal of improving health systems, programs and policies.
“Knowledge management can be instrumental in addressing knowledge gaps and help to increase efficient learning across sectors,” said George Kapiyo, who will lead this project with his team from Amref Health Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. “We therefore aim to work with regional networks and professional organizations to pull out the FP/RH program successes of their work and make linkages to other technical and development priorities.”
The East Africa team has embraced KM approaches, like storytelling, that reflect the cultural heritage of the region. Efforts to help people find, share, and use information are more likely to be successful and sustained when matched to the local context.
The new work will focus on six organizations: East, Central and Southern Africa Health Community (ECSA-HC), East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing and Midwifery (ECSACON), Partnership for Population Development- Africa Regional Office (PPD-ARO), Eastern Africa National Networks of AIDS and Health Service Organisations (EANNASSO), East African Health Platform (EAHP), and the FP2030 East Africa Hub.