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Learning Alliances: External Links and Resources
Here you can find selected links to some of the most relevant resources and experiences in developing Learning Alliances and stakeholder platforms from outside the SWITCH programme.
Books
- Learning Alliances: Scaling up innovations in water, sanitation and hygiene, IRC, 2007
This IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre publication brings together theory and practice to examine the challenges of widespread innovative change in a real-world setting. It is, in the first place, geared towards water sector professionals with an interest in strengthening the developmental impacts of research and innovation, the scaling up of innovative implementation practices, and new approaches for capacity development. Click here for more information and purchase details. - Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Management, Ashgate, 2007
As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. This book focuses on water management to take a positive, if critical, look at this phenomenon. Click here for more information and purchase details.
Articles, Papers and Proceedings
- Learning alliances for integrated and sustainable innovations in urban water managementWaterlines paper (Vol 27, No. 2) by J. Verhagen, J. Butterworth and M. Morris (April 2008)
In a rapidly changing and ever more complex world, 'wicked problems', which traditional, narrowly focused research struggles to grapple with, are becoming more and more common, including in the water sector. Here, numerous good practices derived through traditional research have shown a remarkable resistance towards scaling up. This paper discusses the Learning Alliance approach and its application to try to overcome the twin challenges of solving complex problems and scaling-up innovations in urban water management. Click here for more information and purchase details. - Symposium on Learning Alliances in the water sector, June 2005
In June 2005, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and UNESCO-IHE hosted an international symposium on Learning Alliances in the water sector. Click here for documentation, which includes a background paper, papers reporting on many case studies and experiences and a report of the event. - Learning alliances: An approach for building multi-stakeholder innovation systems, ILAC brief 8, August 2005
Click here find out more about the LA approach used by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). - Facilitating Networks - a good practice guide, May 2004
These good practices for facilitating networks draw upon practical experiences that DFID staff captured at two workshops for Network Facilitators held in Feb and March 2004. If you are considering setting up a network or wondering how to make yours better, these good practices will prompt you to ask many of the questions you'll need answers too somewhere along the line. Click here to view the guide.
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