Objective 3- KM should enable Growth through impact-focused organizational learning for strategic positioning

ENABLERS

RESULTS

Business Results

Partner Results

Society Results

People Results

$ (additional) delivery in identified priority thematic areas

Performance

Perception

% of personnel that perceive UNOPS as competent on Focus Theme x

Performance

Perception

$ EA in identified priority thematic areas

% partners that perceive UNOPS as competent on Focus Theme x

number of technical experts on payroll/readily available/on roster per thematic focus area

Performance

$ delivery on thematic focus areas with governments

% projects that implement under consideration of identified cross-cutting themes (gender, youth, capacity building...)

% proportion of value of projects with high-risk profile which result in actual loss/write-off

Leadership

Define and communicate focus areas

Educate Decision-makers: Steer towards more balanced approach to measuring and understanding "success" (Country Director Level and up), including stronger focus on quality

People

Process, products and services

Knowledge Partnerships and resources

Map existing skills & capacity on identified focus areas, and subsequently identify gaps

Train business developers: move from "don't know that they don't know" to "know that they don't know" to "know who to work with"

Create and roll out training on identified technical themes, based on defined minimum capacity needed/desired

Pilot additional specific thematic investment funds based on TSF experience, where appropriate

Map outputs and service areas correctly early on

Track and leverage success criteria for projects

Build rosters of experts in thematic areas

Design knowledge flow architecture (people, processes, system)

Install check-points especially during opportunities and project design phases to ensure consultation with technical experts and subsequent realistic project design

Track project implementation through refined criteria, rather than mostly $ spent

Introduce and manage system to facilitate knowledge brokering, documentation, seeking

% projects that perform well against project success criteria

"UNOPS will build its knowledge and people capabilities to engage more strategically - earlier on in development processes (...) to work closer with partners higher up in the "overall value chain""

Collaboration with academia, UN agencies and NGOs for addressing K gaps #

Integrate GDI taxonomy to lessons learned and risks registers

Surge capacity (Rosters, Retainers, Talent Bench) (Issues for implementing surge capacity with ICA modality and costs for roster maintenance and mobilization)