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At the 14th World Toilet Summit 2015, BRAC received the "Hall of Fame Award" for significant contributions to the sanitation sector in Bangladesh. Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
IRC country director of Ghana Vida Duti reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: consolidating the successes! Read more...
2015 is het jaar dat de Millenniumdoelen plaatsmaken voor de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). Een belangrijke rol in beide ontwikkelingsagenda's is weggelegd voor water, sanitatie en hygiëne, onderwerpen die in veel landen nog te wensen overlaten. OneWorld dook in de wereld van de... Read more...
This week (19-23 January 2015), IRC will be present at the 3rd International Faecal Sludge Management (FSM3) conference in Hanoi, Vietnam to co-present a workshop on city planning for faecal sludge management. On Thursday 22 January from 14.00 – 17.30, IRC is co-organising this workshop together... Read more...
BRAC plans to expand its scope beyond WASH to water security and from rural to urban areas, as well as moving from service provider to facilitator. Read more...
IRC is co-organising a workshop together with GIZ and EAWAG/Sandec on "Planning Tools for City-wide Faecal Septage Management using Whole System Approaches". Read more...
IRC country director of India Kurian Baby on how to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Clean India, and what he wishes for his country in 2015. Read more...
IRC country director of Burkina Faso Juste Hermann Nansi about the approaching Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and what they mean for his work in Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC en colaboración con Royal Haskoning DHV, apoyará la implementación del proyecto de: Extensión y Mejora de los Servicios de Dotación de Agua Potable en la planta de Chuquiaguillo en La Paz, Bolivia. La contribución del IRC se enfocará en fortalecer la capacidad institucional de la Empresa... Read more...
Behaviour change lies at the heart of the BRAC WASH programme, which reaches half the rural population of Bangladesh, using an equity-based approach and sustained intensive interaction, based on 'selling not telling'. Read more...
As 2014 draws to a close we look back on a mixed and challenging year at IRC. Read more...
It is our pleasure to announce that IRC Uganda country director Jane Nabunnya Mulumba has been appointed as WSSCC National Coordinator. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme covers half of Bangladesh and measures quality of change outcomes as well as programme outputs. Read more...
This is how the BRAC WASH programme (2006-2015) is achieving lasting behaviour change and transforming hygiene, sanitation and water services with half the rural population of Bangladesh, using an equity-based approach and sustained intensive interaction. Read more...
The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals should include access to water and sanitation in schools, clinics and the work place. This was stated by IRC and Simavi during a networking event on Thursday 4 December at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Read more...
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are essential to daily life and overall development, but, they are often not the top priority of the media. IRC and RNTC joined hands to train journalists and communications specialists how to tell compelling stories about WASH. Read more...
Good news from Ghana! IRC Ghana and its contribution to help build Ghana's rural water monitoring seems to be going very well. "Indeed, we are firmly on the path to support the establishment of a national system for rural water monitoring in Ghana", says country director Vida Duti. Read more...
Amsterdam International Water Week 2-6 november 2015: 'Integrated solutions for a circular economy and resilient cities' Call for papers now open! Does your idea deserve to be heard at the unique cross cutting international platform for integrated water solutions? Submit your paper to the AIWW... Read more...
L'inventaire en ligne des Objectifs du Développement Durable est un outil interactif disponible sur Internet destiné à répertorier des propositions d'objectifs mondiaux pour l'après-2015. Read more...