discussion+on+institutional+histories

NBDC institutional history discussion 12 July 2013
(Alan Duncan, Doug Merrey, Kees Swaans, Simon Langan, Ewen Le Borgne).

There was a push from CPWF to go for institutional history and reflect on R4D. Kees represented NBDC in November 2012 where 6 broad areas were identified as the basis for the institutional history (IH). Doug, Kees and Ewen developed a protocol / checklist of interview questions for the institutional history. Doug came up with a draft version of the IH that was developed for the Lima peer assist meeting. The focus was to do a peer assist on IH. It was a 4-day conversation.

Very little feedback received but fascinating We have to finalise that internal report and think about turning this out as an external product.

What is CPWF going to do with this? Feedback? Practical lessons? How is CPWF planning to take this further? Some of these lessons could be made stronger…

We need to strengthen the evidence base. How widely interesting is this for others? This could be a lowest level paper? We could develop a technical report… We could develop one in the same series as ‘rhetoric vs. realities’.

There is also a CPWF cross-basin IH which Ilse is leading and is a very fascinating document, looking into transitions from phase 1 to phase 2.


 * Possible outputs**:
 * Turning the current IH into a technical R4D technical report a la ‘rhetoric vs. realities’.
 * Journal article based on this.
 * Fail fair document… and event… cartoon with all that can go wrong - but this should also be linked with how to engage a wider group.
 * Set of recommendations from our project to other projects (with people leading on each of these projects).

Do we bring this into the November meeting? Into the WLE October meeting? How is this related to the final CPWF reporting? We have to submit final reports (with outputs and learning) between June and August for N2, N4 and N5.

We have to share the final draft of the IH with WLE. Simon will produce a draft for what to share with WLE.


 * Next steps**:
 * DM to finalise IH technical report;
 * KS to draft the article on R4D (after technical report is ready);
 * SL to forward paper Doug (4-pager) to Andrew and Emma and draft document on lessons learnt from NBDC to WLE';
 * ELB to champion the failure cartoon with T. Clayton and share ToR;