Knowledge & Skills Transfer in Capacity Development

Abstract

Education for All (EFA) is an international initiative which aims to bring the benefits of education to “every citizen in every society.Therefore, EFA can be realized when effective capacity development machineries are put in place. Capacity Development is a conceptual approach to development that focuses on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people, governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations from realizing their developmental goals while enhancing the abilities that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable results. On the other hand, Knowledge Management involves people, technology, and processes in overlapping parts (Awad & Ghaziri 2007). Most of companies have built knowledge repositories, supporting such knowledge varieties as customer knowledge, product development knowledge, customer service knowledge, human resource management knowledge, and so on. Effective knowledge transfer requires processes to make the knowledge useful(Jackson & Schuler, 2000) which relies on the SECI model involving four types of knowledge conversion among people and can be combined to form process in time. Knowledge transfer can impact positively on the capacity development of individuals, society and institutions to achieve EFA. This will result into credible performance in providing high quality services and products to the stakeholders. The research reveals that proper knowledge sharing ultimately cause effective and efficient performance in any organization.

Keywords: Education for All, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Transfer, Capacity Development