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Unfortunately, the contest launched by IRC was inconclusive. Read more...
It is all about monitoring. Everyone wants to know - but who needs to know? and what do we need to know? Video developed as part of the UNICEF-IRC partnership 'Knowledge Management and Sector Learning in West and Central African Countries'. Script by Ton Schouten.
Read more...Video 'Making monitoring count' discusses the challenges around monitoring: everyone wants to know - but who needs to know? and what do we need to know? Read more...
World Toilet Day in Burkina Faso: access to toilets is everyone's responsibility reminds the Minister for Water and Sanitation Read more...
Detailed information about IRC's progress made in 2015. Read more...
The African water sector needs qualified staff in all disciplines, not just engineering. Read more...
To provide safe water in Burkina Faso Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...
This volume is a collection of ideas and solutions with potential, and also of issues and challenges raised by IRC Burkina Faso's team and actors in... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso has reviewed the performance of existing institutions and, in particular, their overarching regulatory framework in two... Read more...
This report focuses on defining the conditions for the establishment of an effective repair and maintenance system for hand pumps in the Sahel region. Read more...
This document presents the highlights, key issues and points in common that arose from the presentations and discussions held during the... Read more...
An overview of IRC's inputs, activities and products, outcomes and impact made in 2014. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso investigated the factors that explain why boreholes with hand pumps in the Sahel region break down so often. Read more...
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally... Read more...
One of the main conditions for providing potable water services is that the service provider must be able to guarantee that the water is safe for consumption. But what happens when you live in an area where such services are not within reach? Can you be sure that the water that is available is safe... Read more...
In most countries in West Africa, involvement of local authorities has increased over the past years to ensure the provision of basic services, among them drinking water and sanitation. Municipalities are now in charge of planning, organizing, managing, regulating and monitoring. Especially around monitoring a lot of work still has to be done. What exactly is monitoring and evaluation? What are the benefits? Who is in charge of monitoring in municipalities? and what support do municipalities get in developing monitoring systems? This film tries to answer these questions by letting those involved in water and sanitation services in rural areas speak.
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Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
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