Review and Approval

Following peer review, the draft (and associated metadata) is submitted to ADBs Knowledge Management Center. After clarifications have been sought and obtained, as warranted, the draft is copyedited, laid out, and returned to the contributor for final check.

About the Knowledge Management Center The Knowledge Management Center facilitates knowledge management activities in ADB. It plays a critical role in introducing new knowledge management approaches, monitoring the progress of knowledge management, and reporting to ADB Management.

About the Asian Development Bank ADBs vision is an Asia and Pacific region free of poverty. Its mission is to help its developing member countries substantially reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people. Despite the regions many successes, it remains home to two-thirds of the worlds poor: 1.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day, with 903 million struggling on less than $1.25 a day. ADB is committed to reducing poverty through inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration. Based in Manila, ADB is owned by 67 members, including 48 from the region. Its main instruments for helping its developing member countries are policy dialogue, loans, equity investments, guarantees, grants, and technical assistance.

Dissemination
Internally, ADB Today is the primary dissemination tool. Outside ADB, the Knowledge Showcase is disseminated via www.adb.org. An external blogsite is at http://knowledgeshowcase.blogspot.com/

Guidelines for Writing a Knowledge Showcase

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey

For more information, contact Knowledge Management Center Regional and Sustainable Development Department Asian Development Bank 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines Tel +63 2 632 6362 Fax +63 2 636 2192 knowledge@adb.org www.adb.org/knowledge-management/

Publication Stock No. TIM101461

February 2010

Knowledge that is available but not summarized might just as well be lost. A concise, well-written summary and its calibrated dissemination allow readers to easily gain information and understanding.

Subject
The subject of a Knowledge Showcase may include elements of strategy development, management techniques, collaboration mechanisms, knowledge sharing and learning, and knowledge capture and storage that made the technical assistance, project, or study to which it pertains unique.

Style
Contributors should use plain English, and start and finish strong to attract and maintain the attention of readers.

The Knowledge Showcase Series

The Knowledge Showcase series captures, stores, and shares highlights of innovative ideas from ADBs technical assistance and other knowledge products; presents the essence of the solution to problems and challenges encountered, emphasizing the tools, methods, and approaches used; refers readers to other sources to deepen understanding; and seeks to foster discussion and research, perhaps even encourage replication.

Structure
The main text should be structured as follows: Main pointsup to four bullet points that summarize key messages; Introduction or backgrounda paragraph or two describing the basis, rationale, stakeholders, and beneficiaries of the technical assistance, project, or study; Problems or challengesa discussion of the obstacles experienced by the stakeholders and/or project implementers, which may include feelings associated with these obstacles; Analysisarguments and/or key findings that discuss the actions taken; the time and place markers related to the actions taken; the main turning points, outcomes, and impacts as supported by facts, figures, images, and vivid language; and Conclusions or recommendationsa summary of how things turned out; the endings; the learning that outcomes and impacts presented; and/or recommendations for replication of the tools, methods, and approaches used to resolve the problems or challenges.

Source Document
Place a note at the end of the first page to refer readers to the Uniform Resource Locator (web link) of the source document and the e-mail address of the author of the Knowledge Showcase.

Title
Contributors should select succinct, catchy titles that attract the attention of readers. The shorter the title, the better.

Audiences
Audiences can include governments of ADBs developing member countries; ADBs Board of Directors, Management, senior sta, sta in headquarters, resident missions, and representative oces; knowledge management centers; local stakeholders; nongovernment organizations; and other development agencies. When writing a Knowledge Showcase, contributors must consider Who are my readers? What unites them? Why should they care about what I am writing? What reaction am I looking to provoke in my readers? How might my readers change their behavior based on what I have written?

Text
The text should comprise 500800 words couched in two columns over two pages; include graphs, tables, or photographs; and display a graphic occupying not more than 20 lines of one column.

Dissemination of knowledge is just as important as its production.