How to write effective KPs

How to Write Effective Knowledge Products

Remember that "knowledge" is such if it enables, motivates, facilitates or supports effective action. Therefore a "knowledge product" or KP can be defined as a publication that enables, motivates, facilitates or supports the reader to perform an intended action effectively, such as replication of a good practice.

In development communication, a publication is intended to inform, explain, generate interest and even motivate. In addition, a KP must be actionable or operational. It must clearly specify the steps to be done by the reader to perform an action intended behind the KP.

TO DO Checklist

If you are one of the designated KP writers for the National Knowledge Sharing Forum on CBE scheduled for July 2016, please do the steps below. If you were designated (see list below) to attend the Batanes workshop on April 18-22, 2016 you must prepare and upload (click "Add files" at the bottom of this main text) a first draft of your KP BEFORE April 18. In the title of your file, append your surname and center name at the end, e.g. "How to xx - Florendo CLSU" or "Steps in the xx process - Dayanan LCSF".

Although this is a self-paced study, please adhere to the timelines we agreed in our Clark workshop (see timeline at the bottom of this page).

• Study the slide presentation below on how to prepare effective knowledge products. Click the triangle at the bottom of the slide for automatic slide advance or click the arrow at the bottom of the slide for manual slide advance.

• Take particular note of the sample Table of Contents of a KP and recommended number of pages per section in Slide #23.

• You can also download the file "Practical Guidelines in Knowledge Translation" (click the downward pointing arrow at the right side of the file name at the bottom of this page). "Knowledge translation" is the process of converting a less actionable KP to a more actionable KP.

• Examine the KPs published by ADB by clicking HERE.

• If anything is not clear or if you wish to make a suggestion, enter your message using the Comment box below. However, if you are responding to or following up on an earlier comment, use the Reply box below the Comment you are reacting to.

Our Agreed Timeline

Between now and our April workshop, we have agreed on the following timeline. Let us try to adhere to this. We have little time between now and the National Knowledge Sharing Forum on CBED in July 2016.

Suggested Guidelines

• If you have a ready paper written on your assigned topic, you must still study how to write an effective KP. A KP is different from an academic or research paper. For one, it is shorter. Secondly, it is action oriented. Thirdly, the readers are those who will replicate a CBED process or set up a CBE: farmers, cooperative officers, LGU officers, businessmen and entrepreneur-investors. Hence it must be readable and easy to understand by them. You must REWRITE your ready paper to adhere to our guidelines for writing an effective KP.

• If you plan to write about a long or complex procedure, consider the option of breaking it up into smaller KPs where each KP is about a specific replicable exemplary practice or REP. The larger procedure can be written up but it will be shorter because the REPs in that larger procedure are written separately into corresponding KPs. Remember, we want our KPs to be easily understood and acted upon by users who are not academic or research oriented.

• Submit your draft KPs to your designated Lead Writer. Do NOT upload it here (only draft KPs for input to the Batanes workshop can be uploaded in this page). The writing, review and editing process is internal between you and the Lead Writer, and later with the Knowledge Product Board (see membership below as agreed in our Clark workshop). The details of the review process by the Board will be worked out in April in Batanes.

Lead Writers/Study Leaders (who will participate in Training of Trainers (TOT) in Writing Effective Knowledge Products workshop in Batanes, 18-22 April 2016):

• • Perla Florendo - CLSU

  • Maximo Wandagan - CSU

  • Anna Reylene Montes - UPLB

  • Grace Marjorie Recta - MMSU

  • Vilma Gagni - DMMMSU

  • Johnson Royo - VSU

  • Saturnino Dayanan - LCSF

  • Guillerma Abay-Abay - USF

  • Myrtel Alcazar - WVSU

  • Jane Tranquilan - MSU

  • USM (none designated yet)

  • Fe Emelda Academia - MLPC

  • Vicenta Canatoy - CMU

Operations: Mina Abella, Wilma del Rosario, Ericson de la Cruz

KMD: Rowena Bumanlag, Ronaldo Mateo, Khrizie Evert Padre, Maria Cecilia Irang, Crissalyn Marcelo

Execom members attending the parallel Administrators’ Working Meeting on PCC Guidelines for Compilation, Production and Updating of CBE Compendium:

• • Dr. Anabelle Sarabia

  • Dr. Liza Battad

  • Dr. Eric Palacpac