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Tettje is involved in communication in the Change hub team and focuses on editing, web publishing and communication outreach. Tettje supports in preparing documents for publishing online and in print. She is giving web instruction, is co-writer of blogs and documents, and is involved in communication activities and responsible for quality control of written texts. Tettje has a degree in English language and literature of the University of Utrecht and has worked as editor for various employers in the past.
IRC and The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill have announced a new collaboration, which will advance both organisations’ goal – to enhance the well-being of people in developing countries through improved water, sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
The third Costing Sustainable Services online course for WASH sector professionals is now open for registration. Read more...
Often, local institutions of communities play an important role in improving the WASH service delivery and standards of services. The Water Committee in Jankampet village, Andhra Pradesh (India) teaches a few new lessons on WASH governance, investments and service levels as this short film shows. Read more...
At local level both small providers and consumers need access to financing mechanisms and information to make an informed choice. Read more...
Gender-specific analysis of the supply sector shows up different roles of men and women in the sanitation supply chain that otherwise remain invisible. Read more...
Supply services and marketing need to be adjusted to what users like and can pay. To expand their markets, local producers, shops and masons/construction enterprises must often widen their range of options, especially at the lower end, and market them more actively to poor households, and to the... Read more...
The educational/promotional aspects relating to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and (maternal and newborn) health should be improved and addressed from pregnancy through to child care. Read more...
The article titled Making sanitation subsidies effective: an IRC summer debate has been taken up in the EADI publication digest of cutting edge publications on development. Read more...
A gender approach that involves husbands and wives equitably in the whole process has led to better results. Read more...
Easy to use and low-cost leaflets and catalogues can inform potential customers. Conviction comes more from interpersonal interaction. Interactions can be with promoters, suppliers, relatives and peers, including those who have already installed a toilet. A participatory process with discussions on... Read more...
In this interview, Vida Duti, IRC Country Director in Ghana, explains how Triple-S Ghana works at all levels in order to move from piloting in the three districts, to scaling-up. Several mechanisms have been put in place to make the leap towards scale work. Read more...
This is a photo story about Bilkis Begum a single mother of five who has installed a toilet in her house. She was able to do this with the help of the BRAC WASH programme which gives out subsidies to the hardcore poor for installing a twin pit latrine. Read more...
“Government has an unavoidable role to play towards sustainable water services at scale in Ghana, as the only actor with the legitimacy to lead development of an agreed framework for service delivery”, says Mrs Vida Duti, Country Director of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in Ghana. Read more...
To choose the sanitation product or service that households want and can afford, couples (both men and women) need access to information on which they can base their choice. Read more...
Regarding the ‘enabling environment’ of the policies, laws, regulations and institutional and financial support, sanitation still faces a double challenge: the low priority for sanitation in comparison to water supply and economic development programmes reluctance of authorities to drop short-term... Read more...
Factors which trigger households to build and use toilets can be quite different from the messages that promoters spread. Read more...
Typical sanitation promoters are training community health workers and local leaders, council members and members of village water and sanitation committees. Read more...
PHAST is a comprehensive approach to reduce diarrhoeal diseases. Read more...
This approach encourages households to recognize, develop and meet demands for more than toilets. Read more...
A definition of sanitation marketing is the use of business principles and unsubsidized markets to make it possible that local providers meet the demands of non-poor and poor local households. (Sijbesma et al, 2010) Read more...
