Knowledge Management and Sharing (KMS)

Establishing knowledge management and sharing as a culture and a way of work throughout the Regional Office and country offices and in Member States, and improving generation, sharing and utilization of knowledge are the key challenges. These comprise issues such as how to enhance the generation of high quality health knowledge and ensure that it is shared at all levels and utilized for decision-making, planning, monitoring and evaluation; how to ensure better utilization of information and communication technology applications at the Regional Office, country offices and in countries for health information management, knowledge generation, sharing and utilization; and how to produce and disseminate publications, documents, reports, websites and health education materials of high quality that meet the needs of people, on time and in the right format. (Regional Director's Report, 2006)

Eastern Mediterranean Region KMS strategy

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Library and Information Networks (LIN)

Library and information networks (LIN) is an essential component in WHO support services addressed to both WHO and national programmes for health development. It assists in the establishment, development and coordination of national and regional health library and information network (EMLIBNET), responding to requests from WHO staff and key national institutions and individuals, training of library manpower, access to information and document delivery services, sharing expertise and resources and bibliographic control of locally produced health literature.

Library and information networks (LIN) is responsible for all library services in the Regional Office, WHO Representatives' Offices and Country programmes supported by WHO. LIN has a dual basic role:

• to provide library services to WHO staff members in support of WHO programmes; and

• To cooperate with Member States to improve health libraries, documentation centres and literature services at country level.