Knowledge management, including the dissemination of best practices and lessons learned, will remain an essential element of the GEF SGP India Country Programme during the Operational Stage 7. The first step regarding knowledge management in OP7 will be the formulation of a knowledge management strategy and a communications strategy. These strategies will highlight priority actions, target audiences, and methodologies to roll out during the implementation phase. The Knowledge Management approach involves assessing and sharing lessons learned and best practices from target landscapes based on evaluation of implementation results and their contributions to Global Environment Benefits (GEB), local development objectives and landscape level outcomes, including the development of social capital.

At the regional and intervention landscape levels, the SGP India Country Programme will produce case studies, photos stories, and video documentaries of the landscape planning and management experience in each of the selected landscapes. These case studies will highlight the processes of stakeholder participation, as well as the progress toward the targets selected during landscape planning, using the Satoyama Resilience Indicators. A detailed analysis will be produced of the successes and failures in each intervention landscape regarding the generation of synergies between individual community projects around landscape level outcomes, lessons learned, and future efforts to strengthen the landscape planning and management processes. The results of these studies will be published and disseminated throughout the country through print and digital media and SGP’s institutional partners, NGOs, SGP-supported CSO networks, universities and others.

The project will establish an SGP Learning Forum (including an e-platform) which will facilitate links among communities, promote information sharing, and provide access to knowledge resources that are relevant to their individual projects. The knowledge obtained from project experiences and lessons learned will be socialized through SGP’s well-established national network of stakeholders and SGP’s global platform, and it will be used in upscaling successful initiatives.

Knowledge sharing and replication will help ensure that the impacts of the project are sustained and expanded, generating additional environmental benefits over the longer-term.