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Learning alliances for integrated and sustainable innovations in urban water management
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Joep Verhagen, John Butterworth, Mike MorrisIn a rapidly changing and ever more complex world, ‘wicked problems’ that traditional narrowly-focused
research struggles to grapple with, are more and more common including. in the water sector. Here, numerous
good practices derived through traditional research have showed a remarkable resistance towards scaling
up. This paper discusses the Learning Alliance approach and its application to try and overcome the twin
challenges of solving complex problems and scaling-up innovations in urban water management. Learning
Alliances are interlinked multi-stakeholder platforms formed at appropriate levels. Critically, the purpose
of a Learning Alliance is to do things differently, rather than to do different things, in order to have more
impact on policy and practice. The paper summarises initial experiences and lessons learned applying this
approach in three urban water management projects.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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VERHAGEN, J. ... et al, 2008. Learning alliances for integrated and sustainable innovations in urban water management. IN: Jones, H. (ed). Access to sanitation and safe water - Global partnerships and local actions: Proceedings of the 33rd WEDC International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 7-11 April 2008, pp. 302-308.Publisher
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