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IRC is part of the Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking 2014 - a joint initiative with Dutch (Aqua for All, Simavi, WASTE) and international (BMGF, Euromoney, Water and Sanitation Program - World Bank and the World Toilet Organisation) organisations. The Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking... Read more...
IRC in Uganda is supporting the sector in important steps towards a service delivery approach and improved rural water services. The IRC-led Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) initiative has been working closely with actors throughout the sector to catalyse change. Read more...
In the July 2014 issue of Waterlines a guest editorial by Marielle Snel explores how the private sector can play a bigger role in sanitation. Read more...
IRC will contribute to the Stockholm World Water Week which takes place from 31 August to 5 September 2014. We are launching the WASHCost book, co-convening a number of sessions and running a booth together with Water For People in the exhibition hall. Read more...
Menstrual hygiene management is of critical importance for school going girls. Last week in Kampala a conference on menstrual hygiene management aimed to break the silence and move towards solutions. One of the drivers of the conference was a study undertaken by IRC and SNV Uganda. Read more...
WASHCost India was implemented in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Over the last 25 years, Andhra Pradesh moved towards the forefront of developing and piloting innovative approaches to WASH service delivery and watershed development. WASHCost India aimed to build on this accumulated knowledge and... Read more...
In collaboration with the National Directorate of Water of the Government of Mozambique (Direcção Nacional de Àguas) and under the technical support and guidance of the multi-stakeholder Water and Sanitation Group GAS (Grupo de Agua e Saneamento), primary data collection on Mozambique was carried... Read more...
In collaboration with the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), the WASHCost Ghana team focused its data collection in three districts (one each in the Northern, Ashanti and Volta regions) and conducted supplementary case studies in the Central region and Greater Accra. Read more...
The WASHCost Burkina Faso team conducted its research in rural and peri-urban communities across three geographically distinct areas: the dry region of Nord, the capital city Ouagadougou, and the forested Southwest region, Hauts-Bassins. Read more...
Improving the performance of the WASH sector to achieve services for life requires change within organisations and sector institutions. Such change cannot be achieved with standardised one-off training for individual staff. A short paper describes our experience in Indonesia with Capacity Self-... Read more...
Two approaches to Operation and Maintenance of rural water facilities - a comparative analysis Read more...
We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
Great interest in the WASHTech tool to validate selected WASH technologies for sustainable services. Read more...
Ebola is spreading fast and continues to plague West Africa. One of the countries hardest hit is Sierra Leone. With numbers of infected people rising every day, measures are taken to contain it. Read more...
Faecal sludge management: the forgotten link in the sanitation service chain. Read more...
This week, Uganda will host the first Menstrual Hygiene Management Conference in East Africa. The conference will showcase good practices and stimulate discussions on how improve menstrual hygiene management, especially in schools. Read more...
IRC is leading a unique public-private partnership to test a recently developed ProCleanse water filter for households. The filter which can process around five gallons of clean water an hour and lasts for 10 years without the use of chemicals or components replacement will be tested in Ghana. The... Read more...
One of the objectives of the Pan-Africa programme is the empowerment of communities through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process in eight African countries. Four years into the process and the stories and documents emerging from the countries show that particularly women are playing an... Read more...
Vergnet Hydro, a specialized company looking for sustainable solutions for drinking water supply in developing countries, had to be represented at the WASH Sustainability Forum 2014 in Amsterdam. The theme was tools for evaluation and monitoring of development activities in water, sanitation and... Read more...
Invitation LUNCH Meeting Meet Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury, BRAC Time : 12.30 – 14.00 (incl. lunch) Location : 'Glass room', gound floor, International Water House, Bezuidenhoutseweg 2, Den Haag ( directions ) Bangladesh has made tremendous progress in the field of health. It now has the highest life... Read more...