Kathryn Harries’ drive to empower technical field teams came from her experience in water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH), cluster and knowledge management in humanitarian and development contexts, and builds on her earlier work developing “bottom-up” field-level management systems. She developed the FieldTiK as part of a PhD completed in the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership, Deakin University, Australia.

Kathryn’s approach to knowledge management and information sharing when WASH Cluster Coordinator Somalia, coordinating teams from over 170 organisations in response to famine, drought, insecurity and malnutrition, was recognised as global best practice. The management system she developed for Sydney Water Corporation, for an environment in which many conditions are outside the team’s control, was accredited to ISO14001–global best practice for managing the environment. She developed a handbook for WASH in emergencies between Pacific island countries. Kathryn is a trainer, facilitator and lecturer, for RedR Australia, Deakin University, UNICEF and others.

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