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OUR ISSUES OF CONCERN a
SELECT THE ISSUE OF CONCERN FOR THE STREAM What is important for your organization? Water and sanitation? Decent housing? Gender equality? Higher Education? You name it. For each issue of concern for your constituency, you need to create a stream of knowledge for it. The scope of each issue could be limited to a locality or region, or to a particular group of people (e.g. women, migrants), or it could be global, as it is the case of UCLG as an association of cities and local governments of the world.
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IDENTIFY A CONTACT PERSON Knowledge related to what is important for your constituency must flow inside and outside your work team, and though several people may be involved in contributing to or be benefited by that stream, it is important to put someone in charge of facilitating the flow of knowledge. This person’s goal is to help anyone to feed the stream, and also to make easy to provide others with the content of the stream.
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KEEP RECORDS AND FOLLOW UP A synthesis of the knowledge flowing in the stream must be captured, and this synthesis must be updated on a regular basis so the whole organization can quickly understand and communicate what is the positioning and the stance of the organization in relation to that issue of concern. Keeping a record of the version date of the synthesis will help to track changes and make sure that the latest version of the stream is available.