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WASH views in the Abono community, Ghana Read more...
Interview with IRC's Dick de Jong about the need for sanitation facilities in schools. Read more...
In Nyanza Province, Kenya, a sustainability evaluation of 55 pilot primary schools 2.5 years after the implementation of the Safe Water System (SWS) intervention revealed that programme activities were not successfully sustained in any of the schools visited. The most common criterion met was... Read more...
This guide provides a brief summary of the points to consider in organising and implementing shorts courses. Read more...
Exercises and tools you can use in the training programme. Read more...
Interpersonal and technical facilitation skills Read more...
A list with information that participants will collect as prepation for the modules. Read more...
Since this training programme is designed to be as practical and useful as possible to participants’ current WASH contexts and challenges, they need to make some preparations for the training programme. Read more...
“In ten places in South Africa we could hear people talk, a group of women who told how they fought for sanitation here and groups that were starting to make money out of looking after sanitation. The local stories we produced were used by Mvula Trust to push for a greater focus on the message that... Read more...
Ms. Amuda Periaswamy, a Commissioner with the Government of Tamil Nadu, described how work has changed attitudes to women and sanitation. Menstrual hygiene management is now an integral part of sanitation services in this state as is sanitation. Read more...
Communications for behaviour change: You can find Coca Cola in slums, but not toilets. Products charged with emotion and passion spread most quickly. Read more...
Governance for equity requires stronger multi-sectoral partnerships, more collaboration between the Government, civil society and media and a recognition that Government cannot work by itself. Read more...
Regional sanitation conferences have been a feature in the WASH sector for a decade since the first AfricaSan meeting in Johannesburg. At their inception they were a groundbreaking effort to get higher level elected government officials to prioritise sanitation and they have undoubtedly played a... Read more...
At the “knowledge cafe”, participants took stock of existing initiatives from CREPA, WaterAid, Arhgyam, IRC and SuSanA. Read more...
Around 30 percent of the national budget of Rwanda is made available to district authorities. Read more...
Du 13 au 15 décembre 2011, le Burkina vibrera au rythme du forum national de l'eau. Ce forum prépare la participation du Burkina au Forum mondial de l'eau à Marseille et fait suite au Forum de haut niveau qu'organise du 5 au 8 décembre le Centre Régionale pour l'eau Potable et l'Assainissement sur... Read more...
Le Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA) accompagné par le groupe des épouses des ambassadeurs, des Représentants des organisations internationales et interafricaines et consuls en poste à Ouagadougou organisent un dîner gala le 5 décembre 2011. Les fonds … Read more...
Sustainable Water Management ImprovesTomorrow's Cities Health (SWITCH) es un programa de investigación-acción, co-financiado por la Unión Europea, coordinado por UNESCO - IHE, en el cual participó IRC como una de 33 instituciones de 15 países de Europa, África, Asia y América Latina. Surgió como... Read more...
This open forum of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) covers a broad range of topics such as sanitation systems and technologies, health and hygiene, CLTS, school sanitation, sanitation systems for special conditions, and menstrual hygiene management, Read more...
Les candidatures sont maintenant ouvertes pour le Prix International du Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz pour l’Eau (PSIPW). Le prix vise à reconnaître les efforts des scientifiques, des inventeurs et des organismes de recherche dans des domaines liés à l’eau. Le … Read more...