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1.2 The Shanghai National Accounting Institute (SNAI) is a public service institution affiliated to the Ministry of Finance of China. SNAI also hosts AFDI. In the past 10-plus years, SNAI has sought to find pedagogy proper for senior financial and accounting professionals, cultivate high-end talent for the accounting industry and provide advanced continuing education for macroeconomic regulators, large-and-medium-sized SOEs, financial institutions and intermediaries. Today, SNAI has created its own unique teaching philosophy and methods underpinned by the three pillars of degree education, executive development program and distance education. 1.3 Learning is at the heart of both SNAI and AFDI: two entities that are strongly interconnected. Within the organization, SNAI/AFDI aims to optimize operational processes to become more effective in all areas of their work program and mandate, including more systematical capture and sharing of critical lessons and experiences. In China and internationally the organizations jointly can position itself as a knowledge center sharing valuable experiences on accounting and public sector finance and promote systematic knowledge sharing and knowledge-sharing approaches among stakeholders. 2. Vision, Purpose, Objectives 2.1 SNAI/AFDI strives to become a knowledge hub in the finance sector in China and beyond by 2020 to scale up successful practices and promote knowledge sharing. 2.2 The purpose of this strategic framework for knowledge-sharing is to put in place a clear policy framework that will underpin and guide the knowledge-sharing activities based on the vision and the objectives. 2.3 In order for SNAI/AFDI to achieve its vision, it must address knowledge sharing at three levels: internal to the organization, domestically with its partners and stakeholders across China, and internationally via South-South knowledge exchange. 2.4 Organizational capabilities of SNAI/AFDI are considered critical to sustain effective knowledge sharing. These critical capacity areas all get attention in this Framework Document and cover eight interconnected domains. Four of these domains relate more to the enabling environment for knowledge sharing and four of them more to the technical capabilities that are deemed critical for knowledge sharing. 3. SNAI/AFDI Knowledge-Sharing Principles 3.1 SNAI/AFDI knowledge represents value—it is the basis for high quality learning and can foster great inspiration and innovation inside and outside the organization. The organization therefore encourages the introduction, use and development of instruments and approaches for improved knowledge capturing, documenting, sharing and learning within and between its departments, and more broadly throughout and beyond the organizational boundaries. 3.2 SNAI/AFDI regards knowledge sharing (KS) as a critical component of its operational culture and work ethic. Although KS activities are often voluntary by nature, the organization will put in place specific mechanisms to further incentivize and reward KS behavior at individual as well as group/team level. It may also establish minimal standards for all employees to meet.