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Our projects

We are involved in a number of projects with a variety of partners, as leader and partner, with different funding mechanisms and with different life spans. As a mission driven organisation, we strive to ensure that all projects contribute to our overall strategy and programmes.

woman in Ethiopia

Action-Research for Learning with Dutch WASH Alliance

A three year initiative led by IRC for improving the effectiveness on hygiene promotion and community empowerment in a few selected Dutch WASH...
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BRAC WASH Programme

Since 2006 IRC has been supporting BRAC WASH in Bangladesh, which has been helping people gain control of their lives in 250 sub-districts.

community water plus

Community Water Plus in India

This project investigates successful community-managed rural water supply programmes and approaches across India.
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Directory of Dutch-related activities in Ethiopia

The Netherlands is an active supporter of Dutch and Ethiopian businesses, NGOs, universities and others working to address water-related challenges...

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EUWI-Africa Working Group

The EUWI-Africa Working Group aims to help achieve water and sanitation-related MDGs in Africa by promoting an efficient working environment.
Public toilets in India

IHUWASH

Innovation Hub for Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions in India (IHUWASH). Within this project three Indian cities, Faridabad, Mysore and...

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Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction

A two-year long project aiming to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), and build resilience to climate change for 160,000 people.
water point at Touloum

Life-cycle cost approach in refugee camps

A pilot study to be conducted in two camps in collaboration with UNHCR aimed at understanding the costs involved and the level of water services in a...

Life-cycle costing tools

Life-cycle costing tools
Photo: Petterik Wiggers

Lowland WASH

The Lowland WASH Activity is extending water, sanitation and hygiene to some of the hardest to reach pastoralist communities in the Afar, Somali and...

Ethiopia, Awassa, SNNP region, December 2013 girl with the families rope pump

Millennium Water Alliance - Ethiopia Programme

IRC is a member of the Millenium Water Alliance (MWA) and supports implementation of the MWA Ethiopia Programme Second Phase (2014-2017).
Petterik Wiggers, Panos Pictures

MUStRAIN

MUStRAIN focused on developing opportunities for multiple-use water services linked to water harvesting innovations and household-led investment.

Photo: managing a WaSH database

One WaSH National Programme M&E support (Ethiopia)

The One WaSH National Programme is the world's largest sector-wide approach to WaSH. IRC have been providing support to help monitor this USD2.4...
Maksegnit, Amhara, Ethiopia

ONEWASH Plus

IRC is contracted by UNICEF to undertake independent monitoring and to support communications for the UK Department for International Development...

Uganda handwashing

Pan-Africa Programme

Plan International with the assistance of IRC and IDS (UK) is working with communities in identifying barriers to accessing sanitation in Africa and...
Happy children in Burkina Faso, photo by Celeste Flores (IRC)

Planning for district-wide WASH coverage in African countries

IRC has to create district water and sanitation master plans for Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda and Niger within one year. Read more

Mobile desludging unit

Research into Sludge Enterprise (RISE)

An action research initiative working towards a viable model for mobile desludging in urban centres in Zimbabwe.
Household water treatment items used in India

Safe Water Phase 2

This is a three year initiative (2015-2018) aiming to increase access to safe water particularly for people living at the base of the economic...

Image of the city of Accra

Sanitation Challenge for Ghana

Transforming livelihoods of Ghana's urban centres.
The logos of Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge

Sanitation Innovation Accelerator

Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge offer entrepreneurs in India a platform to scale innovations.

Sanitation, Hygiene and Water (SHAW), Indonesia

Sanitation, Hygiene and Water (SHAW), Indonesia

SHAW is a 4.5 year project implemented across nine districts in eastern Indonesia to increase access to and use of toilets and improve hygiene...
Learning in Burkina Faso

Sector learning in West and Central African Countries

A UNICEF - IRC partnership supporting knowledge management and sector learning in 11 West and Central African countries and at regional level.

dirty water

SMARTerWASH: a multi-partner joint initiative

SMARTerWASH aims to ensure monitoring information is effectively used to keep water and sanitation services working.
SSH4A project components

Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All

Sustainable Sanitation & Hygiene for All is a comprehensive approach to ensuring equitable access to improved sanitation and hygiene for those...

The five STBM pillars

Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for Indonesia (SEHATI)

SEHATI is a 3.5 year programme to be implemented in seven districts in East Indonesia. The focus is on accelerating access to sanitation and hygiene...
Ethiopia - rural water point in East Haraghe (photo credit Catarina Fonseca)

Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) Learning Partnership

This five year project (2016-2021) in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda aims to provide USAID and its partners with proven "systems approaches" to...

The Brave project Ghana

The BRAVE Project

Building understanding of climate variability into the planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa (BRAVE). The project (...
Making repairs in Ghana

The West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WA-WASH)

Increasing sustainable access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in Burkina Faso, Niger and Ghana.

Bicycles fetching water

Triple-S

Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) was a six-year, multi-country learning initiative to improve water supply to the rural poor.
Putting monitoring data into a mobile phone

UNICEF nine country national monitoring initiative

The goal of the programme is to strengthen WASH services monitoring at national and subnational levels for improved WASH service delivery in the nine...

Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP)

IRC provides technical assistance to the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP) focusing on 330 cities in Indonesia between 2010 and 2014.
Sato Pan installation

USAID Transform WASH

USAID TRANSFORM WASH sets out to transform the market for low-cost quality WASH products and services in Ethiopia: stimulating demand at community...

Life-cycle costing tools screenshot

WASHCost

Understanding the cost of water and sanitation services Life-cycle costing tools
WASHTech screengrab

WASHTech

WASHTech aims to strengthen sector capacity to make effective investment in new technologies.

Hand washing station at a school

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools

The provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools in Ethiopia is receiving more attention, but levels of access and quality of water...
Afar

Water-security in Ethiopia & Emotional Response of Pastoralists (WEEP)

Conventional indicators fail to describe the reality of accessing water supplies for some. WEEP is focused on finding ways to better measure how we...

watershed empowering citizens

Watershed

Watershed is a strategic partnership between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo which will work...