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Learning is the key to success—some would even say survival—in today’s organizations. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) must play a bigger part in putting the potential of knowledge solutions to work in the Asia and Pacific region. This means that ADB’s knowledge should be continuously enriched through both internal and external learning. For this to happen, ADB must become a more flexible and adaptable organization.

Learning in Development tells the story of independent evaluation in ADB, from its early years to the expansion of activities under a broader mandate; emphasizes the application of knowledge management to sense-making; and brings to light the contribution that knowledge audits can make to organizational learning. It identifies the 10 challenges that ADB must overcome to develop as a learning organization and specifies practicable next steps to conquer each.

The messages of this publication will echo outside ADB, too. The book will appeal to the development community and to people interested in knowledge and learning.

Learning in Development was written by Olivier Serrat, principal knowledge management specialist and concurrent head of ADB’s Knowledge Management Center. Stephen Banta assisted in the preparation of Chapter 1. Adele Casorla analyzed the results of the survey of perceptions detailed in Chapter 3. Toward Chapter 4, Bruce Britton helped detail the learning organization model, formulate the questionnaire that might gauge perceptions of competencies to learn for change, and particularize the challenges that ADB must overcome. Special thanks also go to Peter Malvicini for his encouragement and suggestions regarding Chapter 4. Chapters 1–4 were originally published separately in 2007, 2007, 2008, and 2009, respectively.

Xianbin Yao

Director General

Regional and Sustainable Development Department

Asian Development Bank