Funder-lnitiated Communities of Practice as a Means for Sharing and Creating Knowledge in Order to Strengthen the Adaptive Capacity of Systems

Keywords: Communities of practice, adaptive capacity, social learning, social capital, nonprofits, participation, Africa, Andes Introduction Foundations are increasingly interested in decentralizing knowledge sharing among grantees in order to strengthen the adaptive capacity of organizations and systems (Lewis-Charp, Berman, Lench, & Siddall, 2020.) [...]this is not a linear process; instead, it is an iterative one that is constantly evolving. After a decade of funding research and development projects in food-insecure regions of the world, the foundation's leadership decidec in 2004 to take an explicitly regionally based approach in its grantmaking. Willingness to Negotiate Agendas To use the Wenger-Trayners' definition of a CoP (2015), while the domain (small-scale agriculture research for development) and community (grantees of a specific geographic area) of the CoPs were determined by McKnight, their practice, or shared repertoire, was never made explicit by the CCRP.