Former IRC Programme Officer
This experiment consisted of a study to assess the significance, efficacy and sustainability of the learning alliance approach in influencing learning and adaptive capacity in the rural water sector in Ghana. Read more...
IRC/Triple-S Uganda has worked with the Ministry of Water and Environment to develop a learning and coordination model aimed at improving continuous joint learning throughout the rural water sector to promote innovations and address underlying challenges of service delivery. Read more...
Learning and knowledge management supported at national and decentralised levels to enable the sector to adapt based on experience. Read more...
Triple-S has been leading a process of active innovation and experimentation in Ghana (as well as in other countries). This involves running a number of experiments (five in Ghana and seven in Uganda) spanning the range of areas where innovative approaches to current challenges have been identified. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
IRC and partners have supported the government of Sierra Leone in launching an initiative for learning in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. A sector learning framework has been developed in consultation with sector players. Now leadership and commitment are needed to move sector learning... Read more...
Sierra Leone's Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Health and Sanitation have spearheaded learning and better coordination in the sector to achieve national water and sanitation targets.Translating high-level commitment into daily practice takes determination, time and skills. Read more...
The capacity to continuously learn and adapt is critical for dealing with complex challenges and future uncertainties. In this first blog in a series about 'a learning and adaptive sector', we discuss why learning is central to achieving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for life. Read more...
Background paper for the Symposium on Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation: Strengthening capacity for local governance Read more...
This paper presents lessons learnt on improving learning in the WASH sector through resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal... Read more...
For deciding where to invest, how to sustain and improve water and sanitation services and for understanding which policies and strategies work, both... Read more...
This paper examines the status, role and scope of knowledge management and networking in accelerating sanitation achievements in India and advocates... Read more...
Monitoring, capacity development and learning for improvement are often addressed as separate processes.Improving sector performance requires a more integrated approach. Read more...
Learning models were a topic highlight at the second day of IHE-UNESCO's 3-day 5th Delft Symposium on Water Capacity Development. Read more...
Data collection is easier and cheaper than ever. But gathering sound evidence – and using it for positive and lasting change–takes time and collaborative efforts. Read more...
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving water and sanitation services. Read more...
Learning is critical to development, so development practitioners need to reflect on how to nurture learning processes. Read more...
Learning is not optional or just a box to tick off. Knowing what works, what doesn't, for whom and in which contexts is crucial to improve water, sanitation and hygiene interventions for services that last. But using lessons learned requires linking learning to purpose, with a joint vision and... Read more...
This pamphlet describes sector learning and its potential to improve WASH outcomes. Read more...
From 17 to 20th April, IRC conducted a workshop on how national WASH Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) support learning in their WASH sectors. Read more...