Creating knowledge that works
Much of what we know about development lies with those who do the work and those who live its consequences. TriQuest creates knowledge from practice and carries it to where it changes practice, research and policy.
NGOs, community institutions, PRIs, frontline workers
Questions, context, practice knowledge and implementation insight.
Evidence that sharpens design, and a voice in the research agenda.
Knowledge is in practice. Three worlds hold it, and each is blindsided.
A better world is made of better practice, better policy and better knowledge. Yet what works, what does not, and why is largely tacit, rarely tested, and lost when people move on.
Practitioners
Know what works.
But seldom make that knowledge explicit.
Academia
Produces rigorous knowledge.
Often on questions set at a distance from the field.
Policymakers and administrators
Design programmes at scale.
With limited sight of lived priorities, or of what is and is not working.
Innovations born in communities seldom enter the knowledge base at all. TriQuest bridges the three worlds.
The same subject, asked from the ground
Pick a subject to see how the question shifts when it comes from practice.
What happens to a mine after closure?
What assets, rights, livelihoods and capabilities do communities need for their second transition, having already been transformed once when mining arrived?
See the study →From a question on the ground to a better outcome, and back again
Questions from society
Questions are surfaced systematically from Sarpanches, elected women representatives, SHG and CLF leaders, frontline practitioners and public-system actors, and held in the Question Bank.
TriQuest starts with a live portfolio
Ten studies are on the Register today. Each begins with a question that came from practice.
Elected women representatives: one question, three pathways
Does agency built through SHGs carry into elected office, and what helps when it meets structural pushback?
Practice to Practice
Practice showed that women with considerable prior agency still met structural pushback on entering office. This shaped three lines of engagement: technical knowledge; understanding patriarchy and structural barriers; and networks among women representatives.
Practice to Academy
These lines are now being tested singly and in combination, in a multi-arm study with Stanford University.
Practice to Policy and Institutional Change
Emerging learning has already opened space for targeted engagement with women representatives within public programmes.