Communities of Practice 101

The potential for communities of practice in an organization is enormous. But their success hinges on a wide range of factors—from readiness to structure, champions to members. Find out the basic ingredients needed in setting up productive and sustainable communities of practice.

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ADB-Hosted Communities of Practice: Driving Knowledge Activities

To excel in their domains and live up to their potential as prime tool of organizational development, ADB’s communities of practice regularly perform the five core knowledge activities—identify, create, store, share, and use knowledge. How much progress have they achieved to date?

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Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation in Bangladesh

In terms of geographic extent and economic damage, the floods of mid-2004 were the worst ever experienced by Bangladesh. How did ADB's immediate assistance, which came with simplified administrative processes, fare in terms of rehabilitating the damage?

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Rising from the Rubble: Reconstruction and Rehabilitation after the 2001 Gujarat Earthquake

In 2001, Gujarat, India experienced its worst earthquake in the last half century. Three years later, the rubbles had been cleared and new roads, houses, buildings, and water and power lines were in place. What propelled Gujarat's successful reconstruction and recovery?

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Carbon Credits: Improving Financing and Sustainability of a Landfill Closure Project

In 2 years, the Indian city of Mumbai transformed its great eyesore—a 19.6 hectare landfill filled with 80-foot high waste—into a vast expanse of greenery with considerable revenue-generating potential. How did carbon credit financing catalyze this transformation?

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Expanding Water Supply and Sanitation Coverage through Output-Based Aid

The Asian Development Bank is set to undertake its first output-based aid (OBA) initiative. Will it prove to be the right modality for Nepal's small towns and their water supply and sanitation concerns?

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Chashma: A Case Study in Compliance

Even good projects engender complaints. An irrigation project in Pakistan showcases how ADB responds to such complaints and improves the project.

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Making Connectivity Work: Contract Growing Along the Lao PDR-Thai Border

A company shifted from trading timber to farm produce, in the process boosting agricultural cross-border trading between exporters in Lao PDR and importers in Thailand.

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Raising Farmer Incomes through High-Value Crops

A project in rural Bangladesh provided farmers with knowledge, credit support, and market linkages to increase productivity.

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Building Narrative Capacity at ADB

ADB makes growing use of knowledge management tools, methods, and approaches but must better capture and store its wealth of tacit knowledge.

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