Solution Exchange, an initiative of the UN agencies in India, offers a UN-sponsored space where development professionals with similar interests ("Communities of Practice") connect to share knowledge and experience towards the common objective of problem-solving. As a member of a Solution Exchange Community, you can proceed with confidence that you are not reinventing the wheel.

Communities are organized around national development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals, contributing to their successful achievement. Members come from all walks of life, namely - government, NGOs, development partners, private sector, academia - to interact on an ongoing basis, build trust, and strengthen to their work as a group.

Key benefits include:

•     Connecting people with common interests
•     Gaining recognition among your peers
•     Offering "knowledge on demand"
•     Providing a wide range of solutions
•     Increasing development effectiveness

How it works
Everyone in a Solution Exchange Community of Practice is subscribed to a mail group moderated by a senior domain specialist. When you come across a challenge and would like to hear from your colleagues, you put your query in an e-mail and the moderator posts it to the Community. Other Members respond with advice, experience, contacts or other suggestions to help you out. After two weeks the query closes and the moderator synthesizes the discussions into a "Consolidated Reply" - a synopsis of the responses together with the additional resources recommended (websites, readings, experts or organizations), that is circulated to the Community.

Solution Exchange for Karnataka
Solution Exchange Karnataka has been formed to create a platform for regional language practitioners to exchange knowledge and experiences at the regional level. The aim is to identify topics which affect development issues in the state of Karnataka and involve local language development practitioners in the discussions and work toward finding local solutions. It is aimed at bringing into the knowledge sharing community those members who are left out due to the limitations of the English language. SE Karnataka will be a bilingual community allowing Kannada and English language practitioners to interact with each other and mutually benefit from experiences and knowledge.

Who should become a member of the Karnataka Community?

• Field workers from NGOs, government agencies and the private sector
• District and local level administrators, community leaders and social activists
• Public sector planners and policy makers at national, state and local levels
• Representatives of donor agencies
• Academics and researchers
• Media persons
• Any other professionals and practitioners working in the development sector in Karnataka
  

Who are the leaders of this Community?
The Community is guided by a "Resource Group" of individuals representing key organizations and agencies from the development sector in Karnataka:

• Government of Karnataka
• Civil society and non-governmental organizations
• Academic and research institutions
• UN agencies

What is the role of the Karnataka community?

• Provide a platform for ideation and information exchange with regard to issues faced by communities and initially address those faced by children in the state.
• Initiate discussion on selected themes by provided by community members.
• Generate dialogue on chosen themes initiallyrelated to child rights, and facilitating exchange of ideas and information from contributors in Kannada from across the state.
• Collate the discussion points and disseminate it to various stakeholders including media, Government Officials, academic institutes, donor agencies and other development agencies.
• Garner the advocacy points from the discussions, especially those related to policy corrections or loopholes in implementation and facilitate concerted efforts for a meaningful culmination.
• Provide inputs to legislators, political parties, policy makers, media and Ngos from the collated voices for children and other MDG issues as and when it is appropriate.

What are some of the issues covered by this Community?

• Millennium Development Goals
• Child development, survival, education and protection related issues.
• Promoting awareness on Child Marriage, Education, Infant Mortality, Maternal Mortality, Water , Sanitation, HIV AIDs, Child Trafficking, Immunization, Birth registration, Nutrition etc.
• Role and legal /policy redressal issues.
• Impact of government schemes and policies at the field level specific to the Millennium Development goals.

How to participate
Participation is free of cost and open to any professional and grassroot practitioners. You can use either Kannada or English in your e-mails; we will translate the summaries of the Consolidated Replies so you can read what all your colleagues are saying.

Click here to sign up and become a part of the Karnataka community.

The Community is facilitated by UNICEF Hyderabad

For further information about the Karnataka Community email se-kar@solutionexchange-un.net.in or contact the Resource Team:

Solution Exchange is an initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India
www.solutionexchange-un.net.in

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