Resource Centre Development
WASH Resource Centres and their networks offer independent information products and services to sector stakeholders and promote knowledge sharing, information management and peer learning. Their services aim to make information and knowledge available and accessible to to sector stakeholders and support them to address sector needs.
IRC and several Southern partners have worked together on Resource Centre Development (RCD) since the mid nineties. IRC has provided capacity building support, including human resource development, organisational development, technical assistance and advocacy for resource centres as key facilitators of improved knowledge sharing, information management and continuous learning in the WASH sector.
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 Centres supporting WASH 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 Coordinators of these Resource Centre Networks and documenting change in their sectors. This folder contains information about the PSO-supported programme.
The Resource Centre Network Burkina Faso: sector learning between history and future
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead?
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.
RCD 18 Countries Programme
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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.
