Resource Centre Development
Resource Centre Development is one of the process areas through which IRC wants to improve change processes in local WASH governance. IRC and its main Southern partners have started to work together on what we have called Resource Centre Development (RCD) since the mid nineties, analysing the potential of information – and knowledge management for improving the performance of the different sector stakeholders.
RCD 18 Countries Programme
This programme - known as the RCD18 programme - promoted information sharing within the water sector, particularly at country level. It promoted better management and access to the wealth of knowledge, experience and understanding that exists at various levels. The RCD programme ran from 2002 to 2006 and was the result of a 1995 external evaluation of IRC and partners' collaboration.
Tools for facilitating learning in thematic groups
How do you facilitate sector learning? Or in the case of Honduras, how do you facilitate the learning in thematic groups, which work on the basis of the so-called 'double loop' learning theory, in which documentation of experiences and the spreading of lessons plays a key role in getting to new insights, technologies or methods of working.
Resource centres set the tone for learning in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
A group of organisations from the WASH sector in Latin America has set an ambitious regional programme to address sector learning in six countries of the Central and Southern American regions. This article addresses the mechanisms used, introduces the first outcomes and highlights the key challenges lying ahead.
Resource Centre Networks and Sector Learning
IRC supports Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda. With support from PSO a membership organisation of Dutch NGOs, IRC has been building the capacity of National Knowledge Management Coordinators of these Resource Centre Networks and documenting change in their sectors.
This folder contains information about the PSO supported programme.
Development of RCNs
Case studies on Resource Centre Network development and strengthening of capacities.
