Alliance Knowledge Sharing Unit: Strategy Overview 2025–2028

As a research organization, knowledge is the core of the Alliance’s business. Knowledge as formal evidence created through research, but also knowledge about the research process itself, methods, tools, and soft skills that support the process. Much of that knowledge is tacit, residing within researchers’ heads, or informal, scattered among reports and products across the Alliance. Knowledge sharing is about how we leverage that knowledge, connecting and aggregating it, engaging scientists to generate new ideas through conversations, and supporting processes so that potential users can add to their own knowledge through engagement with our research and researchers.

The Knowledge Sharing unit (KS) is a research support unit under the Office of the Associate Director General (ADG) for Research Strategy. Our mission is to support the Alliance researchers by building a dynamic culture of knowledge exchange, fostered by innovative and creative approaches that strengthen connections between silos, position our research effectively and encourage active engagement in creating a sustainable future.

This brief highlights the Knowledge Sharing Unit’s refreshed focus and offerings for 2025 and beyond. It outlines the results of an in-depth analysis of the KS’s current operations, addressing the needs and challenges identified through the team’s experience and a series of interviews with key stakeholders, including the Associate Director General for Research Strategy and Innovation, regional leadership, the eight research lever directors, and research-support units. This commitment aims to foster impactful knowledge-sharing practices that drive the Alliance toward being a truly impactful and innovative agricultural research-for-development center.

Bailey, A.; Gichia, T..; Mobasher, M.