Former IRC Programme Officer
A study by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reviewed the extent to which the five Paris Principles (PPs) on Aid Effectiveness (AE) as set out in the Paris Declaration (PD) on AE: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability, are being applied in the... Read more...
A summary of the evaluation report of Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) in Southern Sudan. Read more...
The Nepal WASH Coalition is able to leverage media coverage and establish the ties needed to bring lasting change in the sanitation and water supply situation in Nepal. Read more...
As part of its program, the Government of Sri Lanka embarked in 2001-2002 in the preparation of a series of sector reforms to improve its capacity to provide for new investments and improve the operation and maintenance of existing ones. Read more...
In Ghana, three-quarters of the population lack decent sanitation. Poor sanitation is the cause of many life-threatening diseases, including diarrhoea, and the lives of many children could be saved if latrines were installed in their homes. What factors affect whether families in Ghana have... Read more...
High and upfront water connection charges often act as a major barrier to connecting the poor. So why charge for a connection? Read more...
Who Pays for Water? a case study of action learning in the islands of the Caribbean Read more...
The Global Water Partnership (GWP) was established in 1996 as an international network promoting an integrated approach to water resources management. The Performance Assessment Resource Centre (PARC) carried out an evaluation of the GWP for its Joint Donor Group of six European bilaterals (Denmark... Read more...
Research from Oxford University, in the UK, evaluates the social impacts of watershed development in Madhya Pradesh, India. Read more...
Safe hygiene practices and access to sanitation are crucial for combating the main health threats to children. However, nearly twice as many people lack access to sanitation compared with water supply. Is it time to stop aligning sanitation and health (S&H)) policies so closely with water... Read more...
A training workshop held in Poland introduced water specialists, researchers and professionals working on other development issues to 'process documentation', an approach to document and jointly learn from change processes. Read more...
This book takes an alternative view towards cost recovery, arguing that cost recovery policies have failed to address inequality and access problems... Read more...
24 Journal of Ground Water articles on microcomputer programmes useful in groundwater investigations, are included in this anthology. Each article... Read more...