Government's vision and strategy and the act of making decisions for delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services.
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Sustainable, resilient WASH systems for all. Reflections from IRC on World Water Week 2021. Read more...
More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level. Read more...
Interview with Alana Potter, co-drafter of the Africa Sanitation Policy Guidelines. Read more...
Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana In March 2018 Janet Wilson was fetching water from the old well in Agravi village when a camera crew arrived and started filming. In the video posted online , she can be seen – a woman in her early 60s... Read more...
A fact sheet on Indian national and state level institutions in Odisha and Bihar engaging in particular with rural water supply and resources. Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis. Read more...
A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Read more...
What does government leadership in the African water and sanitation sector really mean? Perspectives from a technocrat, a politician and IRC's CEO. Read more...
Reflections on developing a series of position papers which help to chart a path forward in Ethiopia. Read more...
In Asutifi North district in Ghana, the District Assembly is making a bold attempt to achieve district-wide full coverage by 2030. Read more...
All systems go! was the first event of its kind dedicated explicitly to using systems approaches in the WASH sector. These symposium proceedings... Read more...
Keynote speech by Ghana's Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium... Read more...
The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
Listen to Barbara Schreiner keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12 March 2019. Read more...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. Read more...
The challenges and opportunities for CSO involvement in Dutch-funded interventions in developing countries. Read more...
The recent JMP report shows how India is accelerating the rate of reducing open defecation, due to the efforts of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The question is whether there are other countries that are seeing such acceleration. Is there another India out there? Read more...
Why networking and collective action are essential to systems change. Read more...