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Pour gagner le pari de la mise en œuvre du projet WASHTech au Burkina, un atelier d’échanges et de partage d’expériences entre acteurs du secteur de Hygiène Assainissement et l’Eau Potable s’est tenu le jeudi 14 juillet 2011 dans la salle de formation du CREPA avec près d’une vingtaine de... Read more...
In order to introduce the WASHTech project to the actors in the WASH sector, the project country team organized a workshop on July 14 th 2011 at CREPA HQ. Read more...
Le goitre est une augmentation de la glande thyroïde due à plusieurs causes dont la carence en iode dans l’alimentation et dans l’eau de boisson. Pour ce cas précis et réel, il s’agit d’une apparition brusque de goitre chez toute une population qui consommait l’eau d’un puits pourtant utilisé... Read more...
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead? Read more...
Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis, say civil society groups, ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the End Water Poverty Campaign. Read more Source: Public Agenda / allAfrica.com, 25 July 2011 Read more...
Twenty years after the UN launched the Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, and 10 years into the MDGs, the news from a global think tank this week, that more than one billion people still live without access to safe drinking water, health care, and other essentials of daily life doesn't really... Read more...
The community of La Sirena outside Cali, Colombia, has been practicing good conservation of water for over 20 years. The community was trained by Cinara, a local institution specializing in water and sanitation projects. Sustainability of La Sirena’s water system is a success, while other... Read more...
The Youth Zone young professionals exchange programme, just like life itself, may not be so smooth for some. It comes with its own ups and downs. Read more...
Any learning process must be effective. In Ghana, the learning process in the water and sanitation sector is extensive and devolved, as it should be. But there is an important gap. A structured mechanism is needed to channel lessons from the communities, learning alliances, and other learning fora... Read more...
Various users of E-Source dropped by at the IRC stand at AfricaSan 3 sharing how they are using and sharing news articles of their choice with colleages and junior staff. Read more...
Mr. Joseph Katabarwa, Environmental Health expert, Ministry of Health, Rwanda has been in touch with IRC since 1998 when he did a three-week course on Hygiene Promotion in Nairobi by Netwas International and IRC. Later he did two more courses in Kenya: one on Management for Sustainability in Water... Read more...
Community-managed sewage treatment systems do a good job and have as added bonus that they also encourage local people in rural areas to build their own toilets. What is more, local farmers can re-use the treated effluent which brings them money as well as promotes sustainable agriculture,... Read more...
From 18 July to 27 July, IRC organized a reflection workshop for the recruited Young Professionals who have ended their nine-month work at the receiving partner organisation. They returned to their sending organisation in the last week of July 2011 and they will start bringing into practice what... Read more...
During the third Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference (AfricaSan 3) the Rwanda Environment Care (REC), a local NGO that provides a variety of sanitary facilities across the country, scooped the Utilities Award in Africa for its efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene. Announcing the Utilities... Read more...
The SaniFaso project aims to eradicate open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) in Burkina Faso. The four-year rural sanitation project, which started in December 2010, will construct 16,000 latrines, train local masons and carry out hygiene promotion... Read more...
The Story of SaniFaso is a 5 minutes video presented during the “Learning Sanitation Sector” side event at AfricaSan 3 on the 19 th of July on the implementation of this learning project in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Le programme SaniFaso a présenté cette vidéo dans le cadre d’une séance consacrée à ‘l’assainissement, un secteur en apprentissage’, organisée par l’IRC, WaterAid et ANEW. La vidéo présente les constats des quatre organisations à l’origine du projet (avec l’IRC) sur … Read more...
IRC’s Latin America Regional Programme and RAS-HON have been collaborating in building capacity for documentation of experiences and making these available in different information products, targeted at different audiences and shared through different channels and at different events. Read more...
The book Supporting Rural Water Supply unpacks problems and identifies success factors in delivering rural water services. Now available from Practical Action. Read more...
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) has taken steps to nab water pirates in Colombo and the suburbs, an official said. "We have established a special unit to nab water pirates. It is headed by a chief engineer in the NWSDB," Deputy General Manager, Western and Central (NWSDB),... Read more...