Assessing knowledge creation process: A case of the National Disaster Management Agency of Gambia

The Disaster Risk Management policy and strategy of Gambia’s National Agency (NDMA) have technical challenges require knowledge creation to enhance capacities lessen the adverse effect risks probabilities disasters in Gambia. Also, limited or no resources leadership support creation. research aimed assess current condition process NDMA on socialisation-sharing experiences from tacit knowledge, externalisation-voicing explicit, combination-structuring internalisation-expressing explicit (SECI) role process. Detailed interviews, questionnaires, WhatsApp call employed with four questions targeted five staff informants eight partner institutions one informant each. adopted a qualitative case study content analysis analyse data using Voyant tools looking at subject concept. found that SECI has unearthed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, bureaucracy coupled fear factors build leading coup d’état for positions. Therefore, been unnoticed uncoordinatedly implemented “Happy Corner” experiential Platform disaster risk reduction (DRR).