DEVCO Staff Seminar Awards: Capacity4dev.eu’s Most Successful Groups and Knowledge Sharing Champions

The most active DEVCO colleagues on Capacity4dev.eu were rewarded at the staff seminar with the capacity4dev.eu award for knowledge sharing.

Certificates for Knowledge Champion Units

The moderators of the most successful Capacity4dev.eu online groups in 2015 and colleagues who submitted popular articles to the Voices & Views section of the platform were rewarded by Deputy Director-General (DDG) Marjeta Jager.

Best group winners with DDG Jager

The most successful group on Capacity4dev.eu in 2015 was the Biodiversity for Life (B4Life) group, followed closely by the ROSA network on Food & Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture and the Public Group on Water and Sanitation. Moderators Arnold Jacques de Dixmude & Philippe Mayaux, Laura Gualdi & Raymond Lataste and Antoine Saintraint respectively received the first, second and third prizes. 

The groups were ranked according to the volume of content shared in 2015, their popularity (visitors, new members, total number of members) and the interactivity within the group (comments, number of contributors, recommendations). 

Bridget Dillon receiving the Knowledge Champion award

The Knowledge Champions accolade for sharing knowledge through Voices & Views articles on Capacity4dev.eu went to:

First place: Bridget Dillon, from the Evaluation unit for the articles: 

• Here is the Evaluation Report... so now what do we do?
• Three Keys to Better Evaluation.

Second place: James McNulty, from the EU Delegation to Zambia, for the articles:

• A Firmer Future for Family Planning in Zambia's Remotest Communities
• Bringing Vital Family Planning Services to Zambia's Rural Women.

Their articles were among the most popular Voices & Views articles in 2015, while Bridget’s piece on uptake of evaluation was the most commented article in 2015.   

The winners encouraged colleagues to join their groups, start writing own articles and share their knowledge. "There is a lot of knowledge at DEVCO, so start writing. [..]Yes, you can!" said Bridget Dillon. 

The awards ceremony continued at the Capacity4dev.eu stand, with special recognition for some of the most active DEVCO units engaged in knowledge sharing on Capacity4dev.eu, both with regard to the groups and the articles. These were:

DEVCO 03
	Knowledge Management Correspondents Network*
	Learn4Dev
DEVCO 04
	Evaluation Methodological Approach
	Evaluation Correspondents Network*
DEVCO B2
	Public Group on Civil Society
	Policy Forum on Development
	DEAR – Development Education & Awareness Raising Programme
	Public Sector Reform and Decentralisation
DEVCO B4
	Education & Development
	Culture in Development Cooperation
DEVCO C2
	FLEGT – Forest Law enforcement, governance and trade
	Biodiversity for Life
	GCCA+ Community
	United in Biodiversity*

* Please note that you need to be a member of EC or EEAS staff and logged into capacity4dev.eu in order to access these groups. 

Special thanks was also given to Mihaela Haliciu (unit 07) for her dedication over several years to the Public and EC Fragility and Crisis Situations groups, as well as Pierre Ghilain (unit B3) for initiating one of the most interactive private groups on the platform.