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1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target. Read more...
You must know about the culture and beliefs of communities before co-creating solutions with them. Read more...
How can a community-based approach help ensure sustainable urban sanitation services? Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All Steering Committee gathered in Geneva on 17 and 18 June to take important decisions on the future direction of the partnership. A new partnership strategy was adopted which is geared towards guiding the actions of the partners in pursuit of a shared vision of... Read more...
IRC's Research into action partner REACH launches its communications. Read more...
Read the reflections and highlights on the session "Influencing decision makers - Finance, equity, institutional leadership" convened by IRC and partners. Read more...
The AfricaSan4 conference (25-27 May) ended with a declaration defining the vision and aspirations of the African Ministers in charge of hygiene and sanitation. Read more...
Since 2011, there have been efforts to track progress in the implementation of sanitation information and monitoring systems and tools in African countries. There has been some improvement not only in number of countries reporting progress, but also in terms of quality and presentation of data. 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...
Want to know more about sanitation monitoring, influencing and learning in Africa? Read more...
The Tanzanian Ministry of Water has adopted the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) to help make water and sanitation services sustainable. Tanzania is now the seventh country to use this innovative tool, which was developed by the IRC-led WASHTech project. Read more...
How do you set up a reliable water supply system when an area is facing ten months of extreme drought every year? How do you make sure that the one thing that matters, your cattle, stay alive? "You start planning for the worst." Read more...
The long-awaited date for the fourth AfricaSan has been confirmed: May 2015. This path-breaking conference will this year continue to raise the priority of sanitation amongst the new generation of political leaders. Read more...
The Pan-Africa programme also known as "Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa" launched Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leone. The project ran from January 2010 to December... Read more...
The second edition of Africa Works! showcased several successful examples of public private partnerships (PPPs) between Dutch and African organisations. In his opening speech the Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation, Mr. Christiaan Rebergen, said that PPPs are the way forward... Read more...
Every month IRCconsult interviews an expert and highlights fieldwork somewhere around the world. This time: René van Lieshout, senior water and sanitation programme manager at IRC travelling to Kenya. Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
The focus of IRC's work in Africa outside the focus countries is on strengthening regional institutions and platforms to support government leadership towards achieving nationally defined sector priorities and targets; advocate for policies and practices that adopt a government-led service delivery... Read more...
Ebola is spreading fast and continues to plague West Africa. One of the countries hardest hit is Sierra Leone. With numbers of infected people rising every day, measures are taken to contain it. Read more...
One of the objectives of the Pan-Africa programme is the empowerment of communities through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process in eight African countries. Four years into the process and the stories and documents emerging from the countries show that particularly women are playing an... Read more...