The INFO Project
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The INFO (Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health) Project is housed at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHU∙CCP)[1] and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development.
INFO is a leader in Knowledge Management, generating, synthesizing and delivering evidence-based reproductive health and family planning knowledge. Knowledge management involves systematically and routinely creating, gathering, organizing, sharing, adapting and using knowledge - from both inside and outside an organization - to help achieve organizational goals and objectives.[2] The INFO project aims to close the "know-do" gap among health providers in the developing world; according to the World Health Organization many of the solutions to health problems of the poor exist, but are not being applied.[3] This is called the "know-do" gap—the gap between what is known and what is done in practice.[3] The INFO project disseminated the latest knowledge to health providers so they will be able to implement evidence-based best practice.[citation needed]