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As we (re)discover groundwater this World Water Day, let's not just look under our feet and think about the resource that lies down there. Read more...
Different stakeholder groups from four districts gave inputs to the District WASH master plan to attain SDG 6 by 2030. Read more...
Report of a WASH Debate on climate adaptation. Read more...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Sustainability of water supply services remains an uphill challenge. Which factors factors undermine the effectiveness of Operation and Maintenance (O&M)? Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
USAID programmes collaborate to improve rural water supplies for pastoralist communities in drought-prone regions. Read more...
Water is central to the lives of pastoralists in Mille woreda, and water development projects have huge impacts. How these play out for the local community is a complex story. Read more...
Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more. Read more...
My new role at Cranfield University this year is to drive forward a novel and very exciting project known as WEEP (Water-security in Ethiopia and the emotional response of pastoralists). WEEP has immense potential to 'break new ground' in understanding the everyday and ongoing challenges of water... Read more...
Under severe conditions of water scarcity, it is vital to keep motorised boreholes pumping across Ethiopia's Somali region. Read more...
Self-supply is the term given to families helping themselves through development of their own water supplies. Usually based on wells dug near the home or fields, such water supplies meet a range of domestic and food production needs. The regional government are launching a new programme to support... Read more...
Can Self-supply help combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in rural Ethiopia? Read more...
The government should support the local private sector, facilitate households loans and stop unsustainable subsidies. Read more...
Ethiopia has adopted Self-supply as a service delivery model for rural water supply to help achieve universal access and reach improved service level targets. But the jury is still out on whether the currently pursued group-based Self-supply version can deliver what is intended. Read more...
From 7-9 September 2015, IRC, the Millennium Water Alliance- Ethiopia Program (MWA-EP) and the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) facilitated a national learning retreat on Self-supply. Participants came together in Butajira: a small town in Meskan in the Southern Nations,... Read more...
From service delivery approaches to costing studies. IRC posters presented at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference in Chapel Hill, USA. Read more...
This blog post was prepared by Sally Sutton - previously coordinator of the Rural Water Supply Network flagship theme on Self-supply - who returned to Ethiopia in March 2015 to participate in the My Water, My Business events linked to the World Water Day celebrations. Sally has earlier supported... Read more...
32 professionals and teams from five woredas in Amhara recently came together for a training workshop on Self-supply acceleration. What did we learn? Read more...