Information and Knowledge Management for Climate Change (IKM4CC) strategic framework: Guidelines for the Pacific region

The purpose of this document is to guide the development of strategic frameworks for managing data, information and knowledge relevant to sustainable development and the related areas of climate change and disaster risk management. This guidance is for governments, agencies, regional bodies and other organisations in the Pacific region.

Summary advice on key information management issues (pp. 11-17) includes the following among others:

• Planning for information management: Choose an information management strategy/system that is most suited to your organisation.
• Creating new information: Use a system to keep track of document versions e.g. a version control table within a document.
• Sourcing existing information: Use an inventory to record details about the information you discover.

This publication is part of the Information and Knowledge Management for Climate Change (IKM4CC) Guidelines. The purpose of the Guidelines is to help government departments, and other agencies and organisations that deal with issues related to climate change in the Pacific region, to implement good practices for managing information. ​This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.