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At Akodokodoi village in Northern Uganda, the tree divides us. On one side, we the project staff from CARE and partner organisations sit on short wooden folding chairs, forming a loose circle with the men. On the other side of the tree the women settle themselves on the ground. Read more...
I am Bilabi Moses, a second year student of the Ugandan Christian University. I come from Buboolo parish, Bukissa Village, Masaba sub-county in Sironko district of Eastern Uganda. Masaba sub-county is characterised as being hilly since it is in the Mt Elgon region and blessed with many rivers. Read more...
Ghanaian planning processes do not systematically address the full range of post-construction costs to ensure indefinite provision of WASH services, according to Dr. Kwabena Nyarko, of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He is the director of the WASHCost project in Ghana which... Read more...
About 300 - 500 participants from all over the world are expected to attend the 6th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum, Kampala, Uganda, 29 November - 01 December 2011. The theme will be rural water supply in the 21 st century: myths of the past, visions for the future. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
Waste water is a liquid asset was the slogan that came up in a discussion on World Water Day 2011 during the last day of the international conference 'Sustainable Water Management in Cities in Zaragoza. Read more...
Politicians do not want to be associated with things that are bad. It is important to support and engage politicians to learn how water management can be improved and improve the environment. These two important lessons for water sector advocates emerged from the December 2010 conference '... Read more...
Achieving sustainable development requires that we institutionalise and act upon lessons learned in the arena of urban water management and city development. Read more...
The IRC 2010 international symposium posed a series of challenges to the water and sanitation sector to improve its ability to cost and finance sustainable services – and to understand the price that communities pay when those services fail. Read more...
African project partners from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda supported by four European partners have launched an applied research project to promote more effective investment in new technologies to achieve MDG targets. Read more...
The SaniFaso project was introduced in Burkina Faso in December 2010 with the aim of eradicating open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) throughout the country. For IRC, this is an excellent opportunity not only to embed the WASHCost results in the... Read more...
The principles of community-led total sanitation are being extended to schools and urban areas in eight African countries.IRC will contribute to a school-led total sanitation (SLTS) component in a broader five-year programme led by Plan Netherlands. Read more...
Sandram Maweru, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development disclosed during a briefing on Tuesday 14 March 2011 in Lilongwe that the Government will launch a sanitation and hygiene campaign on Saturday 19 March 2011 as one way of improving hygiene in low-income areas of... Read more...
Du 22 au 26 février 2011, le projet WASHCost a organisé au Burkina Faso une grande rencontre de la Recherche. La trentaine de participants à cette rencontre sont venus du Burkina Faso, du Ghana, de l’Inde, du Mozambique et des Pays Bas. L’objectif de la rencontre a été, entre autres, de capitaliser... Read more...
The 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge is offering US$1 million to a team of university students who come up with the best innovation to improve access to water and sanitation in developing countries. On 5 March 2011, the five regional winning teams were announced: Boston University School of... Read more...
A new global map could help improve water resource management and climate modelling, and eventually lead to new insights into a range of geological processes. The map uses permeability data to a much greater depth than before - up to approximately 100 metres - and across greater areas. This makes... Read more...
Dans le cadre de la recherche à l’échelle nationale, l’équipe du projet WASHCost Burkina Faso a organisé une collecte de données au mois d’août 2010. Cette collecte de données appelée collecte de la saison pluvieuse fait suite à celle organisée en saison sèche de Mars à mai 2010. Elle a couvert l’... Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
New US legislation proposes to appoint an International Water Issues Diplomatic Coordinator and to set up a Bureau for Global Water Aid at USAID. Democratic representative from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the Global Water Access and Equity Act (H.R.6565) in Congress on 21 December 2010. It... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...