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A successful pilot in Ethiopia deserves to be scaled up for health care centres in other parts of the country. Read more...
Experts discuss technical and institutional innovations in emergency water and sanitation at IRC Event. 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...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and government are looking for innovations in their work with smallholder farmers and communities in Lesotho to strengthen their livelihoods and to conserve the environment. Read more...
Le programme SaniEst, mis en place depuis 2014 au Burkina Faso, a pour objectif la constitution d'une offre et d'une demande d'assainissement pérenne dans 6 communes à l'Est du pays. Après une année de mise en œuvre, l'expérience démontre l'importance d'avoir des institutions solides. Quelques... Read more...
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically. Read more...
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale... Read more...
I was just at the Professional Women in Advocacy Conference . As I looked around the room, I realized it was the first professional conference where I did not know anyone. It made me recognize the WASH sector is lagging behind. Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...
Will Africa's fastest growing economy and continental success story Ghana succeed in providing everyone with a toilet? A major clean city contest, the Sanitation Challenge, will be launched today on World Toilet Day and should change Ghana's sanitation nightmare over the coming years. Read more...
Guy Norman (WSUP) summarises some of the interesting stuff presented in the public finance session at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference. This blog was originally posted on the Public Finance for WASH website by Guy Norman. 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...
" Sin salsa no hay paraíso " canta el Gran Combo de Puerto Rico. En Honduras, sin el gran combo, no hay agua. 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...
El levantamiento de datos en el Sistema de Información de Agua y Saneamiento Rural se ha ido acelerando. A nivel regional se encuentran datos de más de 10,000 comunidades de los países de Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá y República Dominicana. Entonces para celebrarlo, ¿por qué no hacer un análisis de... Read more...
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons. Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer. Read more...
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. Read more...