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Le village de Bagmnini dispose depuis le 21 août 2011, d’un forage, grâce au soutien du Lions club Ouaga étoile. Le président du club, Silmiraogo Nabalma, a situé cette œuvre dans la logique du lionnisme et des Lions qui volent toujours au secours des plus démunis. L’’idée de la construction du... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of the “Village Drill” cost around US$ 4,000 (excluding labour) to make in the USA... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of … Read more...
Why do families build toilets? If the family tradition for many generations has been to defecate in the open – using local woods or accepted sites, then what is the incentive to make a break and opt for a toilet instead? Read more...
Accelerated and sustainable progress in sanitation and hygiene is within reach in Asia, as long as we aim at district-wide coverage and build a broad alliance under leadership of local governments. This is the main conclusion of sanitation and hygiene experts from five countries (Nepal, Bhutan,... Read more...
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, together with UCLGA , WIN-SA and AusAid , are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in... Read more...
At the Third Ghana Water Forum held in Accra, 5 - 7 September 2011, WASHCost presented research findings, new briefing notes, and the country coordinator discusses the way forward. Mr. Eugene Appiah-Effah, a WASHCost Ghana Research Officer presented on the topic ‘Cost of rural and small town water... Read more...
IRC’s Patrick Moriarty in his recent blog post It’s the (political) economy stu…, proposed a model on evidence only being as good as the political economy in which it operates, is picked up in the blog Aid on the Edge of Chaos. This blog is exploring complexity and evolutionary sciences in foreign... Read more...
We would like to invite you to join us for the online launch of the SWITCH in the City book on 12 October 2011 from 1200-1700 Central European Time. The launch provides an opportunity for you to 'chat' with the editors, download the book (from 3 October) and order copies. To join the online... Read more...
During this free full-day seminar, as part of the RWSN Forum on Friday 2 December 2011, we will focus on the use of the life-cycle costs approach for water and sanitation building on experiences in rural and peri-urban areas in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Andhra Pradesh (India) and Mozambique. Read more...
Kathmandu (MPPW/SNV/IRC): Accelerated and sustainable progress in sanitation and hygiene is within reach in Asia, as long as we aim at district-wide coverage and build a broad alliance under leadership of local governments. This is the main conclusion of sanitation and hygiene experts from five... Read more...
How can we make sanitation services last forever? Challenges, lessons and good practices were shared by participants and presenters at the AfricaSan 3 conference in Kigali, Rwanda held from 18 to 22 July 2011. IRC facilitated several sessions and a hands-on training seminar on applying the life-... Read more...
This study evaluated the efficacy of ABHS on volunteers’ hands artificially contaminated with Escherichia coli in the presence of dirt (soil from Tanzania) and cooking oil. ABHS reduced levels of E. coli by a mean of 2.33 log colony forming units (CFU) per clean hand, 2.32 log CFU per dirt-covered... Read more...
A US-Ghanaian team has been awarded US$ 1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a biorefinery that will convert fecal sludge to biodiesel and methane. Read more...
The Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à faible coût ( CREPA ) has established a local chapter in Rwanda.The Rwandan Minister of State for Energy and Water, Eng Collette Ruhamya, who is also the vice chair of the CREPA Ministerial Council, launched CREPA-Rwanda at an event in... Read more...
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 7.8 millon) over three years. Read more...
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC, together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held in... Read more...
Gabrielle Halcrow (SNV Bhutan) gave praise to IRC for sharing the story about the female masons in Kerala, at the previous regional learning workshop hosted in Dien Bien in January 2011. She did this in a DGroup discussion while reporting on the “Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene”... Read more...
James Batchelor of the WASHCost team uses spatial analysis completed over the past year on 20 villages in Andhra Paradesh to demonstrate the effectiveness of mapping as a way of analysing and understanding factors that influence life-cycle costs and WASH service levels. Read more...