About Us
The Resource Centre Network (RCN) Ghana
About Us
THE RCN
The Resource Centre Network (RCN) is an institutional partnership that seeks to promote Knowledge Management (KM) services within the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana.
Background
Under the Resource Centre Development (RCD) prog sector KM scan conducted revealed that, i) generally capacity for KM in the Sector was weak, ii) there was little effort to institutionalise KM, iii) there was lack of awareness about importance of information and KM, iv) there was little research and lack of documentation meaning little information to share, v) commonest ways of KM sharing were through verbal channels (training, workshops, seminars, sector fora, etc.) vi) there was inadequate infrastructure (ICT, libraries, archives, etc.) and trained personnel for KM, vii) there was general lack of financial support for KM activities. These challenges are still relevant today to a very large extent. The situation led to the establishment of RCN as an initiative that aims at transforming the sector into a knowledge-driven arena capable of addressing the problem of access to information and knowledge in the sector.
The process of establishing RCN originally started back in October, 2002 with series of investigative studies which informed decisions on priority activities. The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in association with TREND Group, WaterAid (Ghana) and IRC organized an Advocacy workshop on May 12/13, 2004 in Accra on knowledge management. Subsequently, four key sector organizations namely, WaterAid Ghana; Water Research Institute; KNUST- Department of Civil Engineering and TREND Group joined hands to form the nucleus of the Resource Centre Network (RCN) to spearhead knowledge management in the water and sanitation sector in Ghana. The outcome of the Knowledge Management Advocacy Workshop was the establishment of a Task Force which brought together about a dozen key organisations in May 2004. The activities of the Task Force were led by …
THE RCN
The Resource Centre Network (RCN) is an institutional partnership that seeks to promote Knowledge Management (KM) services within the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana.
Background
Under the Resource Centre Development (RCD) prog sector KM scan conducted revealed that, i) generally capacity for KM in the Sector was weak, ii) there was little effort to institutionalise KM, iii) there was lack of awareness about importance of information and KM, iv) there was little research and lack of documentation meaning little information to share, v) commonest ways of KM sharing were through verbal channels (training, workshops, seminars, sector fora, etc.) vi) there was inadequate infrastructure (ICT, libraries, archives, etc.) and trained personnel for KM, vii) there was general lack of financial support for KM activities. These challenges are still relevant today to a very large extent. The situation led to the establishment of RCN as an initiative that aims at transforming the sector into a knowledge-driven arena capable of addressing the problem of access to information and knowledge in the sector.
The process of establishing RCN originally started back in October, 2002 with series of investigative studies which informed decisions on priority activities. The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) in association with TREND Group, WaterAid (Ghana) and IRC organized an Advocacy workshop on May 12/13, 2004 in Accra on knowledge management. Subsequently, four key sector organizations namely, WaterAid Ghana; Water Research Institute; KNUST- Department of Civil Engineering and TREND Group joined hands to form the nucleus of the Resource Centre Network (RCN) to spearhead knowledge management in the water and sanitation sector in Ghana. The outcome of the Knowledge Management Advocacy Workshop was the establishment of a Task Force which brought together about a dozen key organisations in May 2004. The activities of the Task Force were led by …
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