This year, the UN will launch the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How will they differ from the existing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what will the implications be for the sector? One of the main differences between the MDGs and SDGs is the focus on universal access as compared... Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
2015 is het jaar dat de Millenniumdoelen plaatsmaken voor de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). Een belangrijke rol in beide ontwikkelingsagenda's is weggelegd voor water, sanitatie en hygiëne, onderwerpen die in veel landen nog te wensen overlaten. OneWorld dook in de wereld van de... Read more...
At the start of the New Year, newspaper and magazines are all busy making predictions of what the year may have in store. Personally, I always enjoy reading The Economist’s “ The World in… ”. In that magazine, predictions are made of how political events may unfold in the year to come, how the... Read more...
IRC country director of Burkina Faso Juste Hermann Nansi about the approaching Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and what they mean for his work in Burkina Faso. Read more...
The post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals should include access to water and sanitation in schools, clinics and the work place. This was stated by IRC and Simavi during a networking event on Thursday 4 December at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Read more...
"It's high time Dutch development minister Ploumen lobbies hard for Water and Sanitation" Read more...
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda. Read more...
Over minder dan een jaar worden in New York de opvolgers van de Millenniumdoelen vastgesteld door de Verenigde Naties: de Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). IRC en Simavi zetten dit op de kaart tijdens een bijeenkomst op 4 december 2014 in het Mauritshuis. Read more...
Several Dutch water sector organisations have written to Minister Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) about the Dutch targets for water supply. Read more...
Former president of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the Millennium Water Alliance-Kenya strategic plan last week in Nairobi and called for efficient and effective water governance. IRC is a partner in the Millennium Water Alliance. Read more...
How can public finance be used effectively together with philanthropy/aid as well as private finance to support sustainable services at scale? Read more...
In this blog, IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca discusses the financing of the post-2015 development goals. "A substantial part of funding for development should be sought elsewhere," she argues. Through public finance. Or tax, as we call it. Read more...
During the last WEDC conference in Hanoi, IRC and Aguaconsult organised a side event to discuss how different service delivery models are combined to provide universal and better access to rural water. Read more...
Who are public water service providers held accountable to? To the politicians and policy makers who define their goals and allocate public resources to achieve those goals? Or are they accountable to the citizens, including the poor, to whom they are providing their services? In this blogpost by... Read more...
Universal coverage of water, sanitation and hygiene looks set to be included in the Sustainable Development Goals. What finally ends up in these goals will determine the agenda for the WASH sector for decades to come. Read more...
Developing countries are committing to sanitation, water and hygiene services for all by 2030, but accountability remains the "Achilles heel". Read more...
Hygiene is missing from an important United Nations document on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will be submitted to the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly. Read more...
IRC welcomes the final report of the UN High Level Panel (HLP), which puts forward recommendations for post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While we are happy that the report includes an ambitious goal of universal access to water and sanitation by 2030, it is disappointing that it lacks... Read more...