Former IRC Programme Officer
In 2010, UNDP's Poverty Group and Environment and Energy Group launched a joint project to examine to what extent the domestic private sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) contributes to achieving the target for access to safe water under MDG7. The project carried out in-depth case studies of three... Read more...
Summary of findings from an event about networks. Read more...
Comments on Day 3 of the RMA workshop Read more...
Comments on Day 2 of the RMA workshop. Read more...
From Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 April (2011), a workshop will bring together the coordinators of resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda together with their counterpart at IRC for a learning and sharing workshop. Read more...
In 2009, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation initiated a learning event consisting of the facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) on water-related issues in 12 countries throughout Africa. Most of these MSPs consisted of forums on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH forums) in which... Read more...
Men who are well informed on the benefits of hygiene improvement for their family are more likely to support their wives and children to change their... Read more...
A 2010 evaluation by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of its urban services projects in Indonesia revealed that the success rate of projects under the multi-subsector approach is 44% compared with 68% for other projects. Read more...
Projects that meet output-based aid (OBA) criteria have proliferated both within the World Bank Group and beyond, and perform better than non-OBA projects. So why are OBA projects still less than 10% of the Bank portfolio? Alan Johnson, a Senior Private Sector Advisor in the World Bank's Investment... Read more...
A new World Bank study identified lessons for improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an evaluation of existing programs, the international experience on improved stoves, and the lessons from successes in the sanitation sector. Read more...
Hiring a female meter reader in a USAID-funded project in Afghanistan, resulted in 75 per cent increase in collected revenue in the first month. In the local cultural context, only a woman can access household meters during times when only other women are at home. Read more...
Broad efforts at regulatory reform and increasing energy and water access may, but will not necessarily, help the poor, says an Asian Development Bank policy brief published in April 2010. The poor often need specifically targeted interventions, measures, and approaches to ensure that they benefit... Read more...