Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSIGHTS
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/11786302211044348
Keywords
International development; project failure; organizational learning; innovation
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- Fond der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank OENB [15174]
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This paper applies an organizational learning framework to explore attitudes towards failure in the WASH development sector, drawing on 35 key-informant interviews and existing scholarship. It delves into challenges faced by WASH practitioners in identifying and analyzing failure, and synthesizes findings to propose a 3-tier conceptual map for organizations to create an enabling environment for learning from failure.
This paper applies an organizational learning framework to explore attitudes towards failure in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) development sector. It draws on 35 key-informant interviews, contextualized by organizational theory and existing scholarship on failure in development, to understand the challenges faced by WASH practitioners in identifying failure, analyzing failure, and deliberate experimentation. Through interrogating past and present initiatives for publicizing failure in development, this paper digs deeper into the successes, obstacles, and lessons learnt from mainstreaming failure into organizational practices. It then synthesizes these findings to advance a 3-tier conceptual map for organizations to build an enabling environment for learning from failure in development.
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