https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n97/774/79/pdf/n9777479.pdf

international development

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

Economic development, social development and environmental protection are interdependent and mutually reinforcing components of sustainable development.

https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/n97/774/79/pdf/n9777479.pdf

international development

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

Becoming a redundant term. In the new 6th generation of KM4SD (Boyes et al., 2023), KM4Dev has evolved KM4D into KM4SD to reflect the importance of development which is sustainable in terms of people and planet.

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

KM for sustainable development (KM4SD) recognizes that knowledge is indispensable to individuals, communities, enterprises, governments, and the global community, and is thus an intrinsic part of sustainable development.

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

An entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_organization

An international organization, also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is an organization that is established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by international law and possesses its own legal personality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization

An independent, typically nonprofit organization that operates outside government control. NGOs often focus on humanitarian or social issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jid.3108

Early development cooperation activities in the 1950s were followed by four international development decades, two poverty eradication decades, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) initiative during 2000-2015, and now the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2030 covering the 2015-2030 period.

A plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. Agenda 2030 comprises the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

KM4Dev is a global networked community of international development practitioners who are interested in knowledge management and knowledge sharing issues and approaches and, who seek to share ideas and experiences in this domain KM4Dev’s activities include face-to-face and online meetings and forums, and it currently has two online community platforms: a website and an email discussion group.

The conversation platform for the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) global community of practice.

Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP)

A non-profit non-government organisation (NGO) promoting the global advancement of peaceful, wealthy, sustainable, and inclusive knowledge societies, fostering global knowledge partnerships for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and implementing the Agenda 2030.

https://k4dp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Agenda-Knowledge-for-Development-4th-edition.pdf

Puts forward 15 Knowledge Development Goals aimed at greatly strengthening the role of knowledge in achieving the SDGs.

https://k4dp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Agenda-Knowledge-for-Development-4th-edition.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266666918800174

Six generations of KM4SD with different key perspectives, methods and tools have been identified.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266666918800174

Page 7 points 22 & 23 & page 58 Box 4 of https://ioe.ifad.org/en/w/corporate-level-evaluation-of-knowledge-management-practices-in-ifad

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The sixth generation of KM4SD has the identifying concept of the 'decolonization of knowledge' and the six defining features of epistemic justice, anti-racism, indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), diversity in KM approaches, new knowledge partnerships, and new knowledge practices.

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

The 'decolonization of knowledge' is the identifying concept of the sixth generation of KM4SD, and focuses on dismantling fundamental inequities of the knowledge system in which coloniality and past colonization interact with neo-liberal economics to exclude knowledge and knowledge holders from multiple peripheries.

https://www.km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/548/673

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266666918800174

The fifth generation of KM4D has the identifying concept of cross-domain knowledge integration and knowledge co-creation and the defining features of: multiple knowledges, multi-stakeholder processes, global public good and knowledge commons, emphasis on local knowledge, and emergence and complexity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0266666918800174

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2497

concept / process / outcome

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2497

https://realkm.com/2025/02/27/usaid-and-the-new-burning-of-the-books-in-digital-and-ideological-epistemicide-a-call-to-action/

https://realkm.com/2025/02/27/usaid-and-the-new-burning-of-the-books-in-digital-and-ideological-epistemicide-a-call-to-action/

https://realkm.com/2025/02/27/usaid-and-the-new-burning-of-the-books-in-digital-and-ideological-epistemicide-a-call-to-action/

https://realkm.com/2025/02/27/usaid-and-the-new-burning-of-the-books-in-digital-and-ideological-epistemicide-a-call-to-action/

https://km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/541

https://km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/541

traditional knowledge, First Nations knowledge

https://km4djournal.org/index.php/km4dj/article/view/541

The key concepts of complexity science provide a means of understanding dynamics and processes of change found in a range of physical and biological phenomena, so are important in sustainable development. The ten concepts are: interconnected and interdependent elements and dimensions; feedback processes promote and inhibit change within systems; system characteristics and behaviours emerge from simple rules of interaction; nonlinearity; sensitivity to initial conditions; phase space – the ‘space of the possible’; attractors, chaos and the ‘edge of chaos’; adaptive agents; self-organisation; and cCo-evolution.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01405730

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14778238.2020.1790310

https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-library/climate-communications/psychology-amp-behavior/Meadows-2008.-Thinking-in-Systems.pdf

A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something.

https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-library/climate-communications/psychology-amp-behavior/Meadows-2008.-Thinking-in-Systems.pdf

https://research.fit.edu/media/site-specific/researchfitedu/coast-climate-adaptation-library/climate-communications/psychology-amp-behavior/Meadows-2008.-Thinking-in-Systems.pdf

The open access KM4D Journal (ISSN 1871-6342) offers peer-reviewed practice-based cases, analysis and research concerning the role of knowledge in development processes, and provides a forum for debate and exchange of ideas among practitioners, policy makers academics and activists world-wide.

research communication / publications

research communication / publications

A non-profit non-government organisation (NGO) which publishes RealKM Magazine and leads and supports actions and activities that encourage and facilitate research-based and evidence-based KM practice.

RealKM Magazine has the purpose of (1) Publishing concise, practically-oriented articles to inform managers and knowledge management (KM) practitioners about the findings of high-value research and real and specific case scenarios in KM and related disciplines such as communications, marketing, psychology, biology, sociology, and management. (2) Leading and supporting actions and activities that encourage and facilitate the application of these research and case scenario findings in KM practice.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/wg2TARannexB.pdf

Climate change refers to any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/wg2TARannexB.pdf

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-001-0101-5

Natural resource management (NRM)

Social-ecological systems (SES) are nested, multilevel systems in which ecological and social elements interoperate through regular bidirectional interactions and feedback loops.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-020-01692-9

https://realkm.com/2023/11/28/case-studies-in-complexity-part-6-tacit-knowledge-engagement-and-sharing-and-deliberative-conversations-in-the-helidon-hills/

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ijshe-05-2020-0176/full/html

A more holistic understanding of the world as an interconnected and adaptive socio-ecological system comprising dynamic relations within and between human and non-human entities

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2025.2459108#

https://realkm.com/2024/02/06/thinking-like-a-mountain-towards-a-council-of-all-beings-arts-culture-in-km-part-11/

https://ideas4sustainability.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/art-imitates-life-understanding-human-nature-connections-through-arts-based-methods/

https://www.academia.edu/2924414/Environmental_flow_assessment_with_emphasis_on_holistic_methodologies

Arthington, A.H. (1998). Comparative Evaluation of Environmental Flow Assessment Techniques: Review of Holistic Methodologies. LWRRDC Occasional Paper 26/98.

https://bruceboyes.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Shoalhaven_Environmental_Flows_Investigations.pdf

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12571-025-01545-5