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Ghana was one of the 50+ countries selected to host national consultations to contribute to defining potential priorities for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as well to reflect on issues of implementation and the 'how', while drawing lessons for localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (... Read more...
Venue : IRC Sponsored by DGIS IRC in collaboration with WASTE and PLAN NL Purpose : This roundtable discussion is to reflect on Urban Led Community Total Sanitation (ULCTS) and how it fits in line with urban sanitation and its potential impact. Time slot Programme 13:30-13:35 Welcome (IRC) 13:35-13... Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague. Ms Brouwer is captain of team SCA, the only all-female boat participating in the Volvo Ocean Race. The boat's sponsor SCA is a global hygiene company that includes sanitary... Read more...
IRC focuses its efforts on processes of change in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector towards more sustainable and cost-effective service delivery. However, the adoption of promising approaches and good practices in such processes often remains limited, as a result of factors such as:... 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...
To have lasting impact over time and after USAID's assistance ends, WASH programs need to factor in sustainability during planning, design, implementation and monitoring. USAID's Heather Skilling and Rochelle Rainey will host this webinar on the nature of sustainable WASH services; factors of... Read more...
Whilst the new ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being finalised, an equally important discussion is going on: how do we finance their achievement? Addis Ababa is hosting a UN Financing for Development conference from 13 to 16 July 2015 on this topic. In preparation for the... Read more...
The long-awaited fourth AfricaSan will be held from 25 - 27 May 2015 in Dakar. This path-breaking conference will this year continue to raise the priority of sanitation amongst the new generation of political leaders. AfricaSan is one of AMCOW's path-breaker initiatives to promote political... Read more...
The RWSN e-discussion on local government, is co-organized together with IRC, WaterAid, IADB, SKAT and Water for People. The e-discussion will be kicked off on 27 April on the sustainable services D-Group of RWSN and will run for four weeks, with each week focusing on a specific topic. The first... Read more...
Upcoming meeting WASH and ICT: Leveraging the Data Stream will be held in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15. This meeting will explore opportunities for the WASH sector to harness the capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve water services. Read more...
30 and 31 March 2015 IRC will host the Multiple Use water Services Group meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The goal of the meeting is to identify the potential contributions of a MUS perspective to the water resource management and water tenure debates, in particular ongoing global efforts to... Read more...
'My Water, My Business' is a series of linked events organised as part of the 2015 World Water Day celebrations. It aims to bring attention to new innovation.that Ethiopia is pioneering new approaches in water, sanitation and hygiene (WasH). The events will connect sector policy-makers, development... Read more...
This year, the UN will launch the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How will they differ from the existing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what will the implications be for the sector? One of the main differences between the MDGs and SDGs is the focus on universal access as compared... Read more...
WaterAid and the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation and Ministry of Urban Development are organizing a 3-day India WASH Summit from 16-18 February, 2015, at the India International Centre, New Delhi. The first event of its kind, it will bring together some 300 participants including... 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...
A Sustainability Forum will take place in Ghana this week, focusing on gains made on sustainable services and on WASH partnerships for the future. Since its inception in 2009, the Triple-S project has worked together with the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), partner districts Akatsi,... 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...
WASHCost offers a free online course for WASH sector professionals. Read more...
Together with the IRC, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Water Partnership and the SWA secretariat, Simavi is organising an informal networking event to highlight the role of water and sanitation facilities apart from household facilities in the Sustainable Development Goals... Read more...
IRC will be co-organising and hosting the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Country Processes Task Team (CPTT) meeting being held in The Hague, Netherlands, on the 2nd and 3rd, December, 2014 The CPTT has conducted various pieces of work in the last one year, notable among these is: the series of... Read more...
Journalists and communicators, do you want to improve your multimedia skills and deepen your understanding of how water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) issues are interconnected? IRC and RNTC are combining their expertise to offer a 3-week course in Multimedia Journalism and WASH, November 3 – 21,... Read more...
19 November has been formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly as World Toilet Day.The provision of proper toilets could save the lives of more than 200,000 children in the world, according to the UN. Today, 2.5 of the world's seven billion people, mostly in rural areas, do not... 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...
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...
The Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation, will consider drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.The Conference will take place in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. IRC's... Read more...