KEEPING KNOWLEDGE ALIVE

In a world overflowing with information, why do we still keep repeating the same mistakes?

Keeping Knowledge Alive: Knowledge Management Strategies for Learning and Transformation is a practical and deeply human guide to using knowledge as a force for impact, resilience, and sustainable change, especially in development and humanitarian contexts.

Drawing from real-world experience from the Global South, this book moves beyond theory to show how knowledge can be captured, shared, and applied before it disappears through staff turnover, silos, or forgotten reports. It brings together proven strategies, field-tested tools, and reflective insights on learning, institutional memory, communities of practice, leadership, inclusion, and cultural transformation.

In this book, you will discover how to:

• Prevent institutional memory loss and avoid reinventing the wheel
• Build learning, knowledge-centered organizations
• Leverage local and community knowledge for real impact
• Integrate knowledge management into programs, leadership, and decision-making for sustainable impact

Written for development and humanitarian practitioners, managers, students, and knowledge workers, this handbook reframes knowledge management not as a technical function, but as a mindset and a commitment.

Because when knowledge lives, people thrive.