We love these toolkits! They provide great inspiration for developing and evaluating knowledge management strategies, tools, and practices. This is a collection of 8 toolkits published by and geared towards people in non-profit organizations.

Knowledge sharing toolkit

Publishers: among others Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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“A continuously updated knowledge repository about knowledge sharing. ”Created as a resource both for KS workshops and as an ongoing place to learn about, improve upon and generally share knowledge sharing practices. The toolkit owners invite you to improve upon any of the entries, leave your name and contact information if you can be a resource on a tool or method, and share stories (both success and “uh-oh – failure” types) of these methods and tools in use”.”

Knowledge translation toolkit: a resource for researchers

Publishers: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

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“This Toolkit is offered primarily to researchers working on health policy and systems issues in low and middle income countries, but it will be of interest to many other audiences as well. It is not a book of recipes. Rather, the Research Matters KT Toolkit aims to open doors into new worlds of understanding, provoking debate and encouraging researchers to think broadly and develop skills in asking and beginning to answer the many new questions that today’s complex health challenges force us to address. Readers will not become experts in the topics of each of its 12 chapters, nor is success guaranteed. However, readers will come away with new ideas and practical tips to get started right now, along with thoughts about who else might need to join the team, how and where to learn more, and renewed commitment and confidence to try something challenging, new, and important.”

Knowledge management toolkit

for the crisis prevention and recovery practice area

Publisher: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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“This toolkit aims to provide ideas and entry points to a wide range of tools and methods that can help us to better share and apply the knowledge that exists within UNDP on crisis prevention and recovery. By working to simplify and standardize knowledge management products and methodologies, we can cut out the timeconsuming process of ‘reinventing the wheel’ every time we embark on a knowledge management-related task. This toolkit is one step along the road to advocating for a simplified and standardized approach towards knowledge management in the CPR Practice Area.”

Tools for knowledge and learning:

A guide for development and humanitarian organisations

Publisher: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

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“The aim behind this toolkit is to present entry points and references to the wide range of tools and methods that have been used to facilitate improved knowledge and learning in the development and humanitarian sectors.”

Knowledge management toolkit

Pubisher: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

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“As presented on the webpage “Dare to Share”, owned by the “Knowledge and Learning Processes” division of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The aim of this page is to help people in getting familiar with a variety of methods and tools for planning and reflection of their own activities, for drawing lessons and for sharing insights and applying them. It features a selection of  more than 20 methods and tools for knowledge sharing and learning, applicable at personal, team and organisational level. The toolkit exists in English, French, German and Spanish.”

Local government knowledge management toolkit

Publisher: Australian Local Government Association (ALGA)

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“The Local government knowledge management toolkit has been developed to help build the capacity of local government staff to recognise the opportunities for discovering and sharing knowledge. The Toolkit has been prepared on behalf of the Australian Local Government Association to assist local governments to find, harness, and manage their knowledge resource. A strategic outcome is to facilitate flows of knowledge within and between councils, and ultimately the community all local governments serve. The Toolkit can be used as a text book document, teaching aid or as a series of individual modules.”

Knowledge management for development wiki

Publisher: KM4Dev Community

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“This wiki is both a working area for the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community and a way for us to make our joint work accessible to a wider audience. KM4Dev is a community of international development practitioners interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches.”