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Profitable businesses and positive community change. Read more...
A market-based approach to increasing access to affordable and sustainable hygiene products. Read more...
This blog was co-written by IRC intern Ann Muthoni Mugendi and Digbijoy Dey Greywater, solid waste and faecal waste management have been separately handled over the years leading to negative effects on the public health and environment. The management of waste has been handled separately over the... Read more...
Written by Muyatwa Sitali , Head of Country and Partner Engagement at Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership and originally published on the SWA website on 23 May, 2023. All Systems Connect | International Symposium May 2023 @ World Forum, The Hague. Robert Tjalondo (Rockin' Pictures)/IRC... Read more...
While budgetary allocations and infrastructural growth show an upward trend for water and sanitation, there are loopholes in its functioning and effective implementation Read more...
Last year we were discussing blended finance, what are we discussing now? Read more...
Members of the South Ari Woreda water safety team visited Arba Minch Town Water Supply and Sewerage Enterprises and were greatly impressed by the high level of professionalism. Read more...
GLAAS data and the All Systems Connect International Symposium Read more...
Farta Woreda is using on the spot water treatment methods using liquid chlorine dispenser kits. Read more...
A new framing for Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), integrated water resources management (IWRM), and improving water efficiency in agriculture. Read more...
Lessons captured during a learning exchange visit to IRC partner districts in Ethiopia. Read more...
Equity in sanitation: Empowering women entrepreneurs. Read more...
A country that lifts its people out of poverty needs to connect the systems for financing health, climate and social justice, with water, sanitation and hygiene Read more...
Earlier version first published on the Toilet Talks website in 2021: Less blah, more dancing Arjen Naafs is passionate about mapping and eager to share WASH knowledge and facilitate learning. This frank interview by Hajar Yagkoubi , former Netherlands youth representative to the United Nations. She... Read more...
This is the story of Yeshi, an Ethiopian woman who became a successful sanitation entrepreneur. Read more...
connecting systems for greater impact Read more...
"In Diversity there is beauty and there is strength" - Maya Angelou Read more...
Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services has a huge impact on citizens in Uganda. In this article, Comfort Hajra Mukasa, Programme Manager, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at Amref Health Africa, outlines the impact, and describes how connecting WASH and health systems has had... Read more...
Season's greetings Read more...
We can already draw on the experience from WASH L&D trailblazers Vanuatu and Bangladesh. Read more...