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Début d'une collaboration entre IRC Burkina Faso et Oxfam Québec Read more...
The Community Water Plus project assesses twenty cases of support to community managed rural water supplies across India. IRC carried out one of these studies around support to community-managed handpumps in Patharpratima, West Bengal. The case study concludes that an effective mechanism for... Read more...
We believe everyone in the world should have running water and proper sanitation. Now and in the future. Monitoring is checking if everything works properly and what needs fixing. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helps the government of East Indonesia to do that. Read his story here. Read more...
Founding a new state. How do you organise and plan for water and sanitation in a country which lacks most revenues, infrastructure or a private sector and is shattered by conflict? South Sudan: the youngest country in the world is balancing between a promising future and fiasco. Read more...
More than 64 participants joined a webinar last month on Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Local Government organised by the Civil Society Water Sanitation & Hygiene Fund. Topic of discussion was the leading role for local government in water and sanitation provision. Harold Lockwood,... Read more...
Want to know more about sanitation monitoring, influencing and learning in Africa? Read more...
Over 37 million people, including the "ultra-poor", have gained access to hygienic household sanitation in Bangladesh. Both donors and the government praise the success of the BRAC WASH programme. Read more...
UNICEF publication provides first global overview of water and sanitation in primary schools. Read more...
"We went back to where it all started: the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa," says IRC's Ton Schouten. This week the monitoring book ' From Infrastructure to Services' was launched in Ethiopia. In the coming 4 years, IRC will keep supporting the... Read more...
IRC was asked by DGIS to support the Netherlands Enterprise Agency with the introduction of sustainability instruments as part of the second round of the Sustainable Water Fund. Another example of how DGIS is taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously. Read more...
The essentials of creating actionable monitoring systems for lasting results. Read more...
IRC is involved in an exciting programme to stimulate businesses in products and systems for household water treatment and storage: Safe Water Phase 2. Read more...
"World Water Day is the most important day of the year," said Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen during the Dutch World Water Day event on Friday 20 March 2015 in Amsterdam. "In fact, it is World Water Day every day", she said. Read more...
This experiment reviewed current monitoring indicators and developed and tested a new monitoring framework designed to be implemented by rural water stakeholders so that they can identify and address problems as they arise at the district level. Read more...
This experiment examined the two main service delivery models for community managed water services in Uganda, established baseline service levels, examined success, failure and promising innovations. Read more...
To provide ongoing services, local governments need to systematically address the full range of costs, beyond construction of water facilities. This experiment supported districts to apply the life-cycle costs approach and asset management, so that their water and sanitation plans and budgets would... Read more...
One of the key challenges facing the water and sanitation sector is the lack of coordination among stakeholders. This experiment identified and sought to address drivers and barriers towards a coordinated sector-wide approach for sustainable water services in Ghana. Read more...
Water For People, IRC and Aguaconsult have developed a set of tools to support the financial planning to reach Everyone Forever with water services. These tools were validated in the municipalities of Tiraque and Araní in Bolivia. Read more...
One out of three rural water supply systems in developing countries doesn’t function at all or performs far below its promised level. How do you go from broken pumps and failing systems to reliable and lasting water services? Read more...