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In 2011, Triple-S Uganda commissioned a study to assess the use of the DIM by different stakeholders at district level. Read more...
How to learn more about the Sustainable Services at Scale initiative in Mozambique. Read more...
WASHCost research tells that current water systems in four countries are failing to meet more than half of the populations’ needs. Current practice in the WASH sector is expensive and provides low value for money. Key findings from the WASHCost project are presented in Working Paper 8: Applying a... Read more...
Learning alliances are one of the ways that IRC supports WASH stakeholders to innovate, coordinate and collaborate. At the UN Water conference on 8-10 January 2013, in Zaragoza, Spain IRC shared lessons from SWITCH. Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
On 3 May 2012, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), National Water and Sanitation Council (CONASA), and the Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS) hosted a seminar of standardising intervention models in Honduras’ water and sanitation sector. Read more...
In January 2013, the Coca-Cola Company joined a diverse group of organisations who signed on to support sustainable WASH services under the WASH Sustainability Charter . Coca-Cola Company is the 100 th signatory for the Charter and is the first Fortune 500 Company to sign. Read more...
Consultant-led sanitation marketing surveys typically take months to produce a thick report with largely impractical recommendations. The IRC International Water and Sanitation is developing a field tool that delivers, within just one week, a one-page overview matching sanitation supply and demand. Read more...
Etendues d’eau, marais, tourbières etc, couvrent entre 748 et 778 millions d’hectares sur la planète. Ces zones humides couvraient une surface deux fois plus grande il y a cinquante ans. Cette disparition s’accompagne d’une diminution des ressources en eau. Read more...
Si l'eau commence à manquer, il faudra passer d'une tarification binôme habituelle à une tarification progressive de l'eau potable. Read more...
A committee looking into the costs of supporting communities and water service providers in Ghana is set to recommend a sizable increase in spending to improve functionality and sustainability in rural and peri-urban areas. Read more...
Akatsi District Assembly has taken action to address major failures of rural water services in its area, including broken pumps, missing management teams and lack of water quality testing. The district has approved a programme of action and a budget to support it, demonstrating that it has learned... Read more...
Cost of water and sanitation services in Nkwanta in the Bosomtwe District of Ashanti Region, Ghana Read more...
Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
Dans le milieu rural l'eau c'est l'affaire des femmes depuis toujours. Ce sont elles qui ravitaillent en eau leurs familles pour les besoins domestiques. Les coûts liés à l'approvisionnement sont également à leur charge. Mais leur faiblesse économique les empêche de s'approvisionner de façon... Read more...
On 25 January 2013, Kwabena Nyarko, on behalf of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), presented concepts of the life-cycle costs approach and findings from the scoping mission for WASHCost to expand into Sierra Leone. Read more...
PPDA waives procurement rules to assist HPMAs. Read more...
Pétrolia entendait effectuer un forage exploratoire du puits Haldimand no 4 à la mi-janvier mais en a été empêchée par l'adoption de la réglementation sur la protection de l'eau potable adopté en décembre dernierde. Read more...
Le cours gratuit en ligne ( en anglais - "Costing Sustainable Service") commencera le lundi 4 février 2013. Vous pouvez vous inscrire jusqu’au vendredi 1er février 2013. Ce cours, en anglais, a été développé pour aider les gouvernements, les ONG, les donateurs et toute personne qui travaillent sur... Read more...
Cost of water and sanitation services in Jankpariba in the East Gonja District, Ghana Read more...