IRC collaborated with partners to develop a new approach to assess WASH risks in marginal populations in Ethiopia. Read more...
Understanding local systems to find solutions to poor sustainability in Ethiopia Read more...
Four reports produced by the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) Learning Partnership published. Read more...
The April 2019 quarterly held National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform Meeting chaired by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) aimed at forwarding solutions for challenges in the implementation of sanitation marketing, mainly financing options for households and sanitation... Read more...
USAID Transform WASH is helping government establish businesses and create jobs. These businesses serve a potentially huge sanitation market. However, they also have low profit margins and they need substantial support. Transform WASH is bringing new products and business practices to try and improve the prospects of businesses. This video shows the progress of one of the latrine slab production associations established in Shashogo woreda of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) region of Ethiopia .
Read more...Due to the absence of active and participatory platforms for coordination, WASH sector actors – woreda head, offices of women and children's affairs, health, education, water, agriculture and finance – have shown a reluctance to implement WASH activities together. Regrettably, this lack of... Read more...
"People used to make fun of me saying, 'Do you really expect us to pay 350 birr for this toy you molded while we can get it for free?'" says Tesfaye Lemanche, Chair of Data Concrete Slab production Association. Read more...
Ethiopia's regions are promoting sanitation marketing following the national guidelines to drive up access to improved sanitation. Read more...
IRC WASH, on behalf of the USAID Transform WASH Consortium, took over providing the secretariat for the national 'Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholder Platform (MSP)' from the World Bank's WSP in June 2017. This is a key opportunity to support the government and the wider sector in developing... Read more...
An innovative approach to create better public toilets and jobs in Ethiopia Read more...
Our forthcoming seminar aims to share some of the latest experiences in using new technologies and innovations to monitor WASH infrastructure, and keep it working. Read more...
Our forthcoming seminar aims to share some of the latest experiences in using new technologies and innovations to monitor WASH infrastructure, and keep it working. A Learning Seminar on 'Monitoring and Messages for Faster Maintenance' will be organized by IRC, the NWCO/MoWIE, Lowland WASH and... Read more...
Innovative new contracting arrangement piloted in eight towns in Ethiopia combining infrastructure development and capacity building for town water utilities. Read more...
A Learning Seminar on Monitoring for Sustainability was organized by IRC with the One WaSH National Program, UNICEF, COWASH Project and Aguaconsult on 9th August 2016 at Getfam Hotel, Addis Ababa. Read more...
Sensitization workshops on self-supply acceleration were organized for different woredas of the Amhara and Oromia regions by CRS, World Vision and CARE to speed up implementation. Read more...
A Learning Seminar on Monitoring for Sustainability organised by IRC with the One WaSH National Program, UNICEF, COWASH Project and Aguaconsult will be held on 9th August 2016 at Getfam Hotel, Addis Ababa. Read more...