Uncomfortable truths in international development: approaches to the decolonization of knowledge from development practice, policy and research
Special Issue of Knowledge Management for Development Journal
The Knowledge Management for Development Journal Special Issue “Uncomfortable truths in international development: approaches to the decolonization of knowledge from development practice, policy and research” was launched as part of a landmark event at the Dr Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library in Washington DC on 9 May 2023.
This significant event also saw the launch of a new sixth generation of knowledge management for sustainable development (KM4SD), as proposed in the first paper of the Special Issue, and a facilitated panel session featuring the authors of other papers in the Special Issue.
The launch of the Special Issue and sixth generation of KM4SD and the facilitated paper author panel session can be viewed in the video above.
The Special Issue includes two poems, eight papers, two case studies, and one tool:
Uncomfortable truths in international development: approaches to the decolonization of knowledge from development practice, policy and research
Published 24 May 2023
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Poetry and creative writing
Our Knowledge
Keamogetsi Joseph Molapong
Here We are on Stolen Land, Your Homeland
Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff
Papers
‘We have a dream’: proposing decolonization of knowledge as a sixth generation of knowledge management for sustainable development
Bruce Boyes; Sarah Cummings; Fitsum Tesfaye Habtemariam, Gladys Kemboi
Toward decolonizing knowledge production in global public health: results of a multi-level intervention to improve equity of authorship at a global health journal
Jim Ricca, Sonia Abraham, Peter Waiswa , Natalie Culbertson, Steve Hodgins
Ensuring equal participation and inclusion in a knowledge exchange initiative: evaluation using an equity-integrated logic model and checklist
Ruwaida Salem, Reana Thomas, Najmeh Modarres, Sophie Weiner, Michelle Yao, Grace Gayoso Pasion, Aïssatou Thioye, Irene Alenga, Tara Sullivan
The community-led worldview of systems change: a framework centering local knowledge and aspirations in pursuit of transformational sustainability and resilience. Part 1
Pascal Djohossou, Sera Bulbul, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins
Creating spaces for knowledge decolonization: changing relationships and shifting power dynamics for co-creation across the Movement for Community-led Development. Part 2
Pascal Djohossou, Sera Bulbul, Ann Hendrix-Jenkins
Centering Women’s Voices and Choices in COVID-19: Learning from CARE’s Women Respond Initiative
Kalkidan Lakew Yihun, Emily Janoch, Vidhya Sriram
Whose crisis? Development interventions and the politics of representation of masculinities and migration in Africa
Linda Musariri
Can African values like Ubuntu expand the meaning and understanding of communities of practice? Lessons from mass food markets in Zimbabwe
Charles Dhewa; Sarah Cummings
Case studies
The anti-racist narratives review of the International Institute for Environment and Development, UK
Natalie Lartey
Epistemic injustice in international development: the case study of a research institute’s knowledge strategy
Julia Glaser, Eunice Amboka Likoko
Tools and Methods
Self Applied Technique for Quality Health (SATH): an advocacy tool developed by CARE Nepal for improved maternal health services in Nepal
Santa Kumar Dangol, Adweeti Nepal, Niva Shakya, Mona Sherpa, Bidur Bastola, Min Raj Gyawali, Emily Janoch
