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A l'orée de l'année 2015, M. Juste Hermann Nansi, Directeur Pays d'IRC au Burkina Faso, s'exprime sur l'agenda post 2015 en matière d'eau et d'assainissement et les implications pour son ONG. Read more...
The Pan-Africa programme also known as "Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa" launched Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leone. The project ran from January 2010 to December... Read more...
The second edition of Africa Works! showcased several successful examples of public private partnerships (PPPs) between Dutch and African organisations. In his opening speech the Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation, Mr. Christiaan Rebergen, said that PPPs are the way forward... Read more...
The ASTRA decision support tool aims to help mitigate the effects of arsenic and salt contamination of water in Bangladesh. the tool stimulated lively discussion at the 37th WEDC Conference. Read more...
Honduras, al igual que otros países de la región centroamericana adopta el SIASAR (Sistema de Información de Agua y Saneamiento Rural) como su sistema de monitoreo de servicios de agua y saneamiento en zonas rurales. El IRC apoya el SIASAR de diferentes formas. Read more...
Notez la date du 4e évènement IRC Le but de cette rencontre sera d’expliquer pourquoi les financements public et privé ne doivent pas être considérés comme deux solutions opposées, mais plutôt comme deux pièces complémentaires d'un même puzzle du secteur de l'eau et de l'assainissement. Les... Read more...
Your organisation is doing post-implementation monitoring of water systems and detects a serious problem. What to do? This guidance document, published by Improve International, helps in the resolution of those problems. Read more...
Every month IRCconsult interviews an expert and highlights fieldwork somewhere around the world. This time: René van Lieshout, senior water and sanitation programme manager at IRC travelling to Kenya. Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
On the 14th and 15th of October 2014, a workshop on gender and female participation in water service provision was organized by CARE International and IRC Burkina Faso in Dori, Burkina Faso, as part of the USAID-funded West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH) programme... Read more...
Rory Villaluna, a good friend of IRC, passed away on 10 October Read more...
WASHCost offers a free online course for WASH sector professionals. The “Costing Sustainable Services” online course was developed to assist governments, (I)NGOs, donors and individuals to plan and budget for sustainable and equitable WASH services, using a life-cycle costs approach. Every other... Read more...
Public finance - money derived from taxation- is critical for achieving water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone forever. But how do we get governments to prioritise it? What should (and shouldn't) it be used for? How can public finance be used effectively together with philanthropy/aid and... Read more...
At the 2014 The Water and Health Conference, IRC will share experience from our work on water service monitoring, on aid effectiveness and make a case for mobilising public finance for water sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
A new online open source monitoring system provides quantitative and qualitative data to guide decisions and plans for BRAC WASH. Read more...
L'énergie positive est palpable dans la salle comble où se tient la séance sur l'innovation pour la pérennité des services d'eau et d'assainissement, organisée dans le cadre de la Semaine mondiale de l'eau à Stockholm. Read more...
In 2013, IRC/ Triple-S Uganda conducted an assessment of the performance of the Service Delivery Model for point water sources. Findings show that there was generally a low service levels but ironically, users were satisfied. This working paper attempts to explain the reasons for that paradox. Read more...
C’est avec grand plaisir que nous annonçons la mise à disposition gratuite de l’eBook Priceless ! détaillant les coûts réels de l’eau et de l’assainissement. Vous pourrez télécharger cette publication WASHCost à partir de septembre 2014 sur le site IRCWASH. Read more...
Eliza Anyangwe du Guardian s’entretient avec le directeur général d’IRC Patrick Moriarty sur le financement par les bailleurs et la défaillance à grande échelle des projets d’eau à court terme – constatée partout dans le monde. Read more...
Within the context of the Ghana WASH Window (GWW), a delegation of 15 Ghanaian companies /NGOs/knowledge Institutions and 7 government officials were received by the Netherlands Water Partnership in the first week of October 2014 (29 sept. -3 Oct.). Read more...