RESOURCE CENTRE MANUAL
HEALTHLINK WORLDWIDE
DREYER, Libby and KARLSSON, Jenni
Ulwazi : for power and courage. A guide to starting a resource centre
Durban : Media Resource Centre : Pietermaritzburg : Community Resource
Centre Training Project, 1991, 80 p ill.
ISBN: 0 86980 831 1
This book is a good introduction to anyone wishing to set up a community
resource centre. It provides practical information on how and why, plus a
resource list of organisations, including training providers, publishers and other
resource centres.
Available from: Media Resource Centre, Department of Education, University of
Natal, Durban, South Africa Fax: +27 31 261 6880
INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE (IRC)
Organizing local documentation services for the water and sanitation sector :
guidelines
(Reference Series No. 9.)
The Hague : IRC, 1994, 97 p.
Guidelines for the development of local documentation centres which can be
maintained with minimum effort, and provide useful information on water and
sanitation to colleagues and the local community.
Available from: IRC International Water & Sanitation Centre, PO Box 2869,
2601 CW Delft, The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] Internet:
http://www.irc.nl
Fax: +31 15 219 09 55
Price: EU 9.00
INTERNATIONAL WATER AND SANITATION CENTRE (IRC)
The Streams of Knowledge toolbox
Draft
Delft : IRC, Oct 2001, 30 p.
This set of tools forms the draft Toolbox on Streams of Knowledge (SoK). It is a
work in progress. It uses results in learning among partners in the SoK coalition
that work together to strengthen resource centres’ contributions to improved
water and sanitation delivery. The learning process emerged from the project
Study into Resources and Management (STREAM) of drinking water supply and
sanitation centres in four continents. This brought together IRC's long standing
partners and new ones in a joint learning process of what makes effective
resource centres.
Tools include:
1. Diagnostic study
2. Understanding the resource centre concept
3. Assessing the potential of a resource centre
4. Gender scan guideline
5. Consolidating resource centres
6. Electronic information services
7. Evaluating effectiveness of resource centres and their partners
8. Self-assessment guide
9. Improving management & control functions
10. Quality assurance
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