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Access to clean water, improved sanitation, and good hygiene services are essential human rights that significantly improve health, education, and overall well-being. However, in Ethiopia, millions still lack access to these services. Read more...
Lessons from Tanzania show that payment by results can help stakeholders achieve improved water point functionality. Read more...
A review of the Tanzanian water sector budget for 2021/22. Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
Public utilities are expanding into rural areas, are they the future of water and sanitation services? Read more...
In recent years, donors have been making greater use of Payment by Results (PbR) approaches to fund development programmes. Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
In the context of the devolution of political powers and responsibilities to the counties in Kenya, planning for water and sanitation services has to step up. Read more...
Using numbers in local planning for water resources and services helps stakeholders to make (conflicting) interests clearer and choices more explicit. Read more...
In an on-going study in partnership with UNHCR, IRC is setting-up a methodology to measure the cost of providing water services to refugee population. Read more...