Make Your Experiences Count. They Can Change the World.
LET’S BRING ALL OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES TOGETHER.
TOGETHER WE KNOW MORE. TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE MORE. TOGETHER WE DO BETTER.
LET’S BRING ALL OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCES TOGETHER.
TOGETHER WE KNOW MORE. TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE MORE. TOGETHER WE DO BETTER.
The KNOW-HOW3000 News present posts from TAs, Sector- and Programme Coordinators and the Knowledge Management Team as well as other members of the KH3000 community about current activities and developments, gives personal insights into the projects and Partner Organisations, discusses technical topics, challenges and solutions concerning the daily life of TAs and partners and offers the opportunity to exchange experiences and knowledge. The news contents therefore specifically address the HORIZONT3000 knowledge community consisting of TAs, H3 staff, Partner Organisations and Member Organisations. Contents are presented in English and Spanish to effectively reach these target groups.
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Published: November 23, 2021; Uganda is one of the top refugee hosting countries in the world. More than half of the refugees fled from conflicts in South Sudan and are settled in the Northern Region of the country. Frontline staffers of PALM Corps that are engaged directly in work with refugee communities share some of their key experiences.
Published: November 22, 2021; GROOTS Kenya initiated in partnership with HORIZONT3000 a project called “Money Power”. The project promotes and strengthens public participation of grassroots women, youth, marginalized and indigenous people in public finance management for effective service delivery and reduced social inequalities in the two counties of Muranga and Laikipia.
Published: November 18, 2021; On the 28 and 29 of October 2021 14 technicians from 4 Partner Organisations of HORIZONT3000 in Mozambique met to learn more about “Seed Production and Commercialization for smallholders”.
Published: November 18, 2021; On November 3 and 4, LeMuSiCa conducted the first learning visits funded by HORIZONT3000's KNOW-HOW3000 programme. First, we visited the SOS Children's Village in Chimoio. On the second day, we got the chance to get to know the organisation Girl Child Rights and their hotline "Child Speaks". Read on to find out more about the two productive learning visits.
Published: November 15, 2021; We are announcing the next edition of our KNOWLYMPICS with a special interest focus: Agroecology in Times of Climate Change.
Published: October 19, 2021; Rescue Dada Centre had to make sure that the staff would ‘turn to each other’ to commonly address what they all cared about – the lives of the former street connected girls and their families. A success story about change!
Published: October 18, 2021; Magdalena Schneidhofer, TA at Justice Centre Uganda, talks about her experience as a TA and all of the goals achieved and the challenges faced together with her partner organisation.
Published: October 18, 2021; Elisabeth Moder, Programme Coorindator of Mozambique and Sector Coordinator of Human Rights and Civil Society, shares her point of view on the reports 2020 with us. We talked about suprises, lessons learned and highlights that came along with the report process.
Published: September 30, 2021; After having participated successfully in the KNOWLYMPICS2020 with the Good Practice: "Engaging men and boys in the fight against gender-based-violence", LeMuSica used the prize money to conduct a 3-day workshop.
Published: September 30, 2021; We invited our colleague Kristina Kroyer, programme coordinator of Central America, to share her thoughts on the process, highlights, lessons learned and surprises with us.
Published: August 31, 2021; Ulrike Bey, Programme Coorindator of Kenya and Tanzania, shares her point of view on the reports 2020 with us. We talked about suprises, lessons learned and highlights that came along with the report process.
Published: September 1, 2021; The Knowledge Management Team of HORIZONT3000 is happy to introduce you to a new, motivated and highly appreciated team player: Solomon Mbubi. Solomon has taken over the coordination of KNOW-HOW3000 in East Africa and will support our Technical Advisors as well as the Partner Organisation with their KNOW-HOW3000 activities.
Published: August 24, 2021; In this post Jasmin Thomas, Programme Coordinator of Senegal, shares her personal point of view on the programme report 2020 with us as well as the biggest lessons learned, surprises and highlights.
Published: August 16, 2021; On 21st July 2021 KNOW-HOW3000 launched a resource mobilisation guide to all our colleagues and partners. We have noticed that our partners in East Africa need support in increasing their capacity to mobilise resources – be it to raise funds from donors or to generate income from social enterprises.
Published: July 20, 2021; On May 19th and 20th 2021 the team of HORIZONT3000 Mozambique met in Beira to discuss the topic of knowledge management and the knowledge management program of HORIZONT3000, called KNOW-HOW3000. It was the first time, such an event took place, and it was a great success!
Published: June 16, 2021; The past year and the global pandemic brought many challenges for MIRIAM. We overcame most of them with a lot of solidarity, creativity, patience and understanding from all those involved.
Published: June 7, 2021; CoPs have been described to be challenging to operationalize in an organizational setting and also our CoP “Social Enterprise Development” had a bumpy start but managed to be revived successfully in 2021.
Published: April 13, 2021; In this text Gloria Alzate, director of our partner organisation Conciudadanía in Colombia, summarises the situation and the difficulties that women are facing in terms of COVID-19 and virtuality. She also shares a video that was made to highlight what is needed to achieve more equity and equality between women and men.
Published: April 06, 2021; Ten Partner Organisations from six different countries have joined and shared ten very valuable experiences with you and the HORIZONT3000 Knowledge network.
Published: March 9, 2021; Michaela Söllinger is an unusual new Technical Advisor: She is the first TA ever to set out on an assignment for peace. Since november 2020, she works in Antioquia, a Colombian state, where she has joined a project run by the "Austrian Fellowship of Reconciliation" with HORIZONT3000.
Published: December 21, 2020; I went to Mozambique at the end of 2019 as an Entrepreneurship Technical Advisor. Since then, I have been working together with Young Africa (YA) apprenticeship training institutions to provide vocational training to youth and young adults in Mozambique.
Published: December 9, 2020; News Report on Online Session Series “Knowledge Management for Beginners” - HORIZONT3000’s partner organisations in East Africa have a wealth of knowledge and experiences that could contribute to the achievements of their strategic goals.
Last week we completed our first KNOWHOW3000 online session series on knowledge management in East Africa! For 4 sessions, between 50 and 100 of our partners and colleagues worldwide joined together to learn more about knowledge management and to share their experiences. We were happy to see participants being excited…
Published: November 27, 2020; Mostly people's knowledge is invisible, stored in their heads (tacit knowledge). So the question is: What can we do to make it visible, tangible (explicit knowledge) so that we can share it with our colleagues within the company or organization and learn from others' knowledge to think products, services and methods in a new way.
Published: November 2, 2020; In the midst of one meeting after the other and the thorough handover process of the Programme Coordination of the Central American Region to his successor Kristina Kroyer, Diego Santos-Santiago managed to take the time to have a chat with me, answer some questions and paint a picture of the current situation in Central America regarding our two main sectors of work: Rural Development and Natural Resource Management and the strengthening of Civil Society and Human Rights.
Published: October 29, 2020; In our KNOW-HOW3000 Knowledge Management Programme we have developed an Experience Capitalization Process in order to promote learning and sharing processes among our partners. In order to collect the partner's experiences, we have invented the KNOW-HOW3000 Knowledge Sharing Games: our famous KNOWLYMPICS!
Published: October 14, 2020; Hans Gnadlinger has been working with HORIZONT3000 for over 20 years as a TA in Brazil. At the moment he is already retired, but he keeps collaborating with national and international networks of rainwater harvesting experts.
Published: October 13, 2020; The fight for gender equality regarding treatment and opportunities is fundamental for reducing poverty and for the construction of a democratic, sustainable and equal society. That's the reason why we teamed up with ORMUSA and prepared a webinar.
Published: September 29, 2020; Since the beginning of the year, in the scope of our consortium project funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) we have created a print and digital version of our “POLICY DIALOGUE” manual ready for partners to read, use, share, apply, learn with etc.
Published: September 21, 2020; You could go on and on about Papua New Guinea and it would never be enough in order to make the country comprehensible. Time is running out and I am beginning my story, which starts at the end.
Published: September 15, 2020; The Knowledge Management team is always busy trying to make knowledge transfers possible and easier between members of our community. Recently, Peter Tantius, Technical Advisor (TA) in Mozambique, has supported our intentions often. He got in touch with us in order to share several documents that he thought might be of benefit for other projects as well - and we thought so too.
Published: August 27, 2020; We took the chance and invited Joel Candelario Saenz, the Director of Fundación Segundo Montes, to an interview that we share below. Keep reading and get to know more about the project and their new initiative.
Published: July 15, 2020; A report on the first steps towards a collaboration between organic farmers and the tourism and gastronomy sector in the Apaneca-Ilamatepec Biosphere Reserve in El Salvador.
Published: July 8, 2020; Every year the US Department of State produces the “Trafficking in Persons Report” that asses the efforts done by governments around the globe in combating human trafficking and modern slavery. The report is one of the most important annual publications in the comparative assessment of global efforts against human trafficking.
Published: July 2, 2020; In PNG, research by UNICEF highlighted the high incidence of harsh parenting as a cause of concern regarding the positive outcomes for children. Any form of violence can impact children’s development and well-being. Funding for UNICEF PNG, enabled a strong partnership with the Catholic Archdiocese of Madang to support inclusive early education, setting up integrated early childhood development schools (IECD) and parenting programs.
Published: June 23, 2020; Recently there where several events, developments and topics emerging that are definitely worth mentioning. That's the reason why the Knowledge Management Team got together and summed up the most important latest news.
Published: June 15, 2020; Regina Bafaki, Executive Director the Ugandan women’s organization ACFODE talks about the organization’s actions and challenges during the COVID-19 lockdown and how women are affected by the situation.
Published: June 8, 2020; The goal of this article is to take a closer look at the realities of the daily working routines of our TAs in the midst of the Corona crisis and at the implications for knowledge management. Since digitalization processes cannot be neglected when talking about knowledge transfer, it is also important to mention that access to technology, networks and education are a pre-condition for functioning exchanges in the digital age.
Published: May 7, 2020; A Triangular Technical Advisory is a so-called south-south cooperation, in which the capacities of one of the Partner Organizations are beneficial for another one or more Partner Organizations. As a new instrument within the Technical Advisory Program this innovative concept focusses on knowledge transfer between the Partner Organisations.
Published: April 1, 2020; In the year 2018, HORIZONT3000 has undertaken its first intellectual capital report (Wissensbilanz). One main outcome and recommendation of it was to manage more systematically our information and knowledge about our local Partner Organisations.