Leading water and sanitation NGOs, IRC and Water For People, announce Destination 2030, a shared vision to reach 200 Million people by 2030 through a newly formed alliance Read more...
IRC opens a formal office in capital Bamako and makes a long-term commitment to the country. Read more...
In Ghana, 9 out of 10 girls miss school during their menses. There is urgent need for investment by government and partners to keep the girl child healthy and in school. It's time to invest in menstrual hygiene management. Now! Read more...
Celebrating water and raising awareness of the global water crisis in support of the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. Read more...
In Burkina? Join us for a live event in Stadium Esplanade of August 4th, Ouagadougou Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October 2020, 03:00 pm. Read more...
Join this webinar on 12 October to explore opportunities, identify challenges and brainstorm solutions to advance hand hygiene in India. Read more...
And be part of the 2020 Finance Ministers'' Meeting kick-off to develop and strengthen partnerships with finance ministers for smart investments in water, sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
A WASH system is made up of different people and organisations, so it's important that they all work well together. Enter the role of the Hub, a person or organisation that connects, coordinates, and unites people around a common vision. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone and learn about the importance of a hub.
Read more...
A vision of 100% access to water and sanitation is a powerful idea that many political leaders have won elections with. A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone and learn about the importance of political buy-in and leadership.
Read more...
Achieving the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation is hard to imagine. The first step is to work out the steps needed to get there. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone.
Read more...This Sanitation and Water for All partnership webinar "COVID-19 and WASH, features UNICEF, WHO and Governments. It includes: A presentation from WHO and UNICEF on WASH Preparedness and Response for COVID-19 Interventions from senior Government officials in Cambodia, Guinea (TBC), and Colombia... Read more...
Long-term advocates of sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene systems to harness complementary strengths and explore opportunities for more impactful programme delivery. Read more...
'Political leadership is the 'sine qua non' to achieving success in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector.'..an absolute necessity. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources in Ghana, is an optimist. 'I am convinced that the targets are achievable. If we do the proper road mapping and engage all stakeholders who are involved in this delivery...to ensure that all people living, everywhere, in every nook and cranny are informed of the change we want.' Watch the video, and learn more about the steps Ghana is making towards delivering safe water and clean toilets for all.
This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.: https://www.ircwash.org/symposium
Read more...
To meet the goal of universal access of water and sanitation services (Sustainable Development Goal 6) we need to change the way we do business. It calls for us to learn from different areas outside water.
Peter Laugharn, CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, takes us back to the times when he was working on the goal of 'education for all' - in the nineties in Mali,where he was working with Save the Children as deputy director of a field office. Times in which he learned the tough lessons of what it means to lack mandate, and the need to have a lon-term vision.
Lessons that are now being applied in Hilton's Safe Water Strategy its implementation with partners in districts like Asutifi-North in Ghana.
--------
This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
Read more...
'Not all problems in the health sector are solved, but appreciating that there is a system has supported us in how to do things.'
In this video, Dr Gilbert Buckle shares how applying a systems approach in the health sector and working on strengthening the building blocks that shape the system is helping to achieve the outcomes they want to see.
He made a call to those WASH professionals, wanting to address WASH in health care facilities: 'when you come to to hit me where I am, you need to understand 'my [health care] system' and you need to help me to use my system in the where it is, to achieve the objects of your various [WASH] system components. If not, we have a clash of systems.
Listen to Dr Gilbert Buckle and learn more about his work as public health physician and expert on health systems strengthening.
----
This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
https://www.ircwash.org/symposium
Read more...
In the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector there is not just one WASH system.
There are many systems. And they interact.
The physical system (the pumps, the pipes); the institutional systems, the political economy, and the social systems. Each of these sub-systems are complex in their own right. And working on these systems requires a sector that is able to talk across disciplines, and find a common language.
There is also the 'Shadow System': the corruption and lack of integrity that is integral to the sector and costs anywhere between 10-35% of the finances.
Barbara Schreiner and her team at WIN (Water Integrity Network) are responding to this 'Shadow System' by working on four areas: transparency, accountability, participation, and working on anti-corruption mechanisms at different levels. This to cement integrity, and keep out corruption in the sector.
Learn more from Barbara and her work as Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network (WIN).
-----
Keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
Read more...
IRC supported by Municipality of The Hague and high profile international organisations join during international event at Peace Palace on the human right to water and sanitation. Read more...