A global community of practice: creating resource centres that build capacity in local WASH service provision
Peter J. Bury
2134/30502
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/A_global_community_of_practice_creating_resource_centres_that_build_capacity_in_local_WASH_service_provision/9597659
Since 2001, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) has explicitly promoted the concept
of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector Resource Centres to provide sector capacity building
products and services. These centres operate mainly at national level, but focus capacity building at the
decentralised WASH governance level, including local authorities and service providers. Products and
services centre on providing better overview, access and use of existing WASH information and knowledge
to improve the provision of services. The IRC Resource Centre Development Programme (RCD), which
ran from 2001 to 2006, was designed as a partnership for joint learning and sharing in capacity building,
and was implemented in 18 countries. To support the initiative, a global community of practice on resource
centre development was created. In IRC’s current work, the resource centre development concept is carried
forward in its six regional programmes. This paper presents the experiences of the global RCD community
of practice in providing support to local WASH action.
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