Capacity building feedback
Feedback on courses and (electronic) conferences.
The ‘Seventh video’ raises many important governance issues
13 Dec 11
“The video raises many important governance issues, like partnerships and not to leave everything to communities, transparency in funds management, gender and equity for disadvantaged groups. It helps us see these issues more clearly.” “I have used it in several trainings here, to send the message”. These are two of the 11 comments made on the Seventh Video on Community Water Supply Management by eight participants of the WASH Governance Testing Workshop held in Morogoro, Tanzania, 17th and 18th November 2011.
Sustainable services and behaviour changes contributions summarised
07 Dec 11
Various IRC staff contributions to sessions and training workshops on sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene service delivery are summarised in the WASH Conference Report of the conference that was held in Brisbane, Australia, from 16-20 May 2011. The recently published WASH 2011 synthesis report provides an overview of the key messages on: functional and environmental sustainability; institutional sustainability; behavioural change and social sustainability; and financial sustainability. Catarina Fonseca (WASHCost and IRC), Harold Lockwood (Triple-S and Aquaconsult) and Christine Sijbesma’s contributions are highlighted below.
“Your communication and interview skills have been excellent training for me”
18 Aug 11
“I feel sorry that you are leaving tomorrow. My session with you at the IRC stand on the first day, how good you are communicating and also how you did the interviews in the field today have been excellent training for me".
Rwanda Health official knows IRC since 1998 from three-week course on Hygiene Promotion
26 Jul 11
Mr. Joseph Katabarwa, Environmental Health expert, Ministry of Health, Rwanda has been in touch with IRC since 1998 when he did a three-week course on Hygiene Promotion in Nairobi by Netwas International and IRC. Later he did two more courses in Kenya: one on Management for Sustainability in Water and Sanitation and the Disaster and Risk Management course.
“Thanks for your contribution as WASH conference presenter and training facilitator”
12 Jul 11
''... Our warmest thanks for your contribution to the success of the WASH Conference 2011. The training component of the event was an outstanding success with more than three quarters of the delegates to stay for the full week...” This is how Dr. Regina Souter, Programme Manager, International Water Centre, Brisbane, Australia thanked IRC's Christine Sijbesma for her contribution.
SNV authors use three IRC materials on sector learning
16 Feb 11
In a recent article in Capacity.org on lessons from WASH multi- stakeholder partnerships from 12 countries in Africa, two SNV authors use three IRC materials on sector learning in the six resources they list.
IRC contributions to Capacity.org magazine
23 Apr 09
This issue of Capacity.org looks at the capacities that need to be developed in order for the water and sanitation targets for 2015 to be achievable. The main focus is on capacity needs at the intermediate and local levels, but links between macro-level policy making and local-level implementation are also addressed. Several IRC contributions on this topic feature in this issue.
Ghana: IRC, WEDC and TREND help train CWSA staff on knowledge management
02 Dec 08
Knowledge management and sharing experience of IRC and WEDC since 2003 are being used in Ghana, where TREND is tapping this experience in a workshop on knowledge management of selected staff from all districts of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. WEDC and IRC staff helped facilitate this workshop, which attracted 50 participants in early December 2008.
I benefited from the many good ideas in the KM e-conferences
24 Nov 05
“I have benefited from the many good ideas which have been posted under these KM e-conferences without ever having contributed anything myself (= so typical, isn't it…?).
Website management course for resource centre network in Uganda
22 Nov 05
IRC made it possible for its partner The Mvula Trust of South Africa to organise a one-week course in Website Management-Content Management System (CMS) for the Resource Centre network staff of NETWAS Uganda.
