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Change is not linear. Change is not easy. Changing the way research is carried out for more impact is certainly no exception. In session B8 of the Third International Forum for Water and Food, dedicated to innovation platforms, the tone was set: if we want to achieve impact, we have to change... Read more...
In April we interviewed Solomon, Abu, Rabin, Melina and Valerie: five young and bright individuals working together with IRC in supporting 'sector learning' in the WASH sector in their respective countries (Uganda, Ghana, Nepal, Honduras and Burkina Faso). It turns out that ‘making sector learning... Read more...
Significant investments in water and sanitation continue to be made, but it is not clear that these investments have made significant improvements in water and sanitation service levels. Maps are a highly useful tool for visualising data to reveal patterns, trigger action and enable better decision... Read more...
Approximately one in three rural water supply systems in developing countries does not function at all or is performing well below its expected level. Failure on this scale represents hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted investment and millions of people who have had to return to fetching... Read more...
The dissemination of knowledge in a way that is useful and convincing is just as important as producing this knowledge. Read more...
We all know the value of face-to-face discussions to inspire and engage. but how do you effectively involve people who cannot be there, and how do you capture a multitude of sessions, viewpoints and impressions? Read more...
Ewen Le Borgne shares his reflections from the 2011 Share Fair, and three very interesting and complementary sessions on a) the IFAD experience of putting KM and learning into practice (#218) b) using social media for development (#206) and c) IKM-Emergent's idea of a knowledge ecology (#173). Read more...
Documenting change is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving the work carried out in development initiatives. Read more...
How to measure the impacts of knowledge sharing? Are the platforms and processes we use for learning and knowledge sharing leading to change? To better ways of working? How can we demonstrate the Return on Investment of Knowledge Management? Read more...
Next week Monday the second global ShareFair is kicking off in the IFAD buildings in Rome. Read more...
This is an overdue blog post but as they say (who are THEY anyway?): "better late than never". Back in July this year, the Resource Centre Network of Burkina Faso (RCN-BF) organised a meeting that focused very much on its legacy so far and on ways forward. With the perspective of diminishing... Read more...
Changes to the WASH sector in Burkina Faso Read more...
At the recent AfricaSan conference, one of the sessions was focusing on the sanitation sub-sector and on the efforts made to stimulate a learning environment across institutions and individuals engaged in it. Read more...
Mobile Technology Inventions in Rural India video Read more...
The WaterCube has launched again with its fourth edition at the Stockholm World Water Week 2011. It is a collaboration between Avo, SIWI and IRC to capture and track the people and ideas floating in the global WASH sector. Read more...
Scenario building and trends analysis for the WASH sector Read more...
In 2010, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the World Bank conducted a study to improve understanding of the financing of on-site sanitation at the household level through analysis of field experiences in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India (Maharashtra), Mozambique, Senegal, Viet Nam. Read more...
In rural India, extremes of coercion are being used to encourage toilet use writes Liz Chatterjee in the Guardian's Poverty Matters blog. Her provocative post has drawn comments from the likes of Robert Chambers, Rose George, Ned Breslin and Erik Harvey. Read more...
Risks that can impair development effectiveness in the urban water supply sector are multidimensional, says a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This highlights the sector's vulnerability to risks in the absence of appropriate mitigating measures. Read more...
Updates from the Learning for Change project team. Read more...