The Honduran resource centre
The resource centre CHRECIAS of the Honduran water and sanitation network RAS-HON provides independent support services to the water and sanitation sector, making knowledge and information accessible for different users. Since 2008 a significant step was made in promoting thematic groups as an integral part of the resource centre and its knowledge management process. In this folder you will find documents and articles related to the experience of the resource centre, information about the different thematic groups, their activities and some examples of the knowledge products that the resource centre develops.
Are you interested in what else RAS-HON is doing, please visit their website throughout this link. The website is in Spanish.
Generating knowledge throughout thematic groups
The Honduran resource centre, CHRECIAS, which is part of the RAS-HON, counts with nine thematic groups. The groups are formed of representatives of different organisations in the Honduran water and sanitation sector. The thematic groups carry out joint projects, research and capacity building activities and work towards the generation of new knowledge and information products with the objective
- to use it as advocacy material in national level decision-making processes,
- to document and systematize processes and sussessful and less successful experiences and practices, and
- to create documents for capacity building purposes
The RAS-HON resource centre: working with thematic groups and lessons learned
This document is the result of an effort to capture what the RAS-HON is; its role in the Honduran water and sanitation sector; and to capture the experience of working in thematic groups. The latter has proven to be a valid and effective approach for the generation of new knowledge, and sharing this within the Honduran sector.
This document is a translation of the original document in Spanish.
Sistematizacion_RAS_HON_EN.pdf (794.8 kB)
Study report on RASHON's channels for sharing information and knowledge
This report reflects the outcomes of the study that was carried out on the channels of information and knowledge of RASHON, the Honduran resource centre for water and sanitation. Objective of the study was to understand and assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the different channels for sharing information and knowledge. This report was developed in 2011 by RASHON, with the support of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
The report is available in Spanish only.
RASHON Informe estudio canales circulacion de informacion y conocimiento.pdf (2.2 MB)
Documenting is the word
IRC’s Latin America Regional Programme and RAS-HON have been collaborating in building capacity for documentation of experiences and making these available in different information products, targeted at different audiences and shared through different channels and at different events.
Honduran Resource Centre for Knowledge and Information, CHRECIAS
By 2004, the Water and Sanitation Network of Honduras, (RASHON from its initials in Spanish), had become an important organisation within the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. Its work has been based on three strategic lines: 1) advocacy 2) institutional strengthening and 3) dissemination of successful experiences of the WASH sector. On the basis of the experiences with these strategies the Honduran Resource Centre for Knowledge and Information in the Water and Sanitation sector, CHRECIAS, was established in 2005.
Strengthening capacities to improve the local governance of water and sanitation services in the Atlantic coast region in Honduras
Local governance of water and sanitation services in the Atlantic coast region of Honduras is influenced both by the ongoing decentralization process as well as the new regulations regarding the provision of public services. The framework law on water and sanitation, which was approved in 2003 has caused that responsibilities for the provision of services have been transferred from national level to the municipalities. Progress in the decentralisation process, however, is slow. In some cases not all responsibilities have been transferred to the local level, and or the resources and expertise to assume the new responsibilities lack at this level. These and more issues were discussed in the workshop ‘Local Governance and Capacity Development for improved WASH services in the Atlantic coast region in Honduras’, organised by the RAS-HON branch office for this region, based in the city of La Ceiba, in October 2007. In this workshop, participants have come up with a series of recommendations for strengthening the capacities to improve local WASH governance. These recommendations have been included in a field note. The field note is in Spanish, and can be accessed by following this link, which will lead you to the IRC WASH Library.
Honduras: MoU signed for networking for knowledge management on WASH
RAS-HON (Red de Agua y Saneamiento Honduras) and IRC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a five-year programme of increased collaboration to disseminate good practice and for advocacy and institutional strengthening.
