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On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers face in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
Is hazardous medical waste sufficiently managed? Read more...
Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana Isaac Adita Principal Enrolled Nurse at Foe CHPS – now one of the most popular centres in the district for women to give birth Isaac Adita has been Principal Enrolled Nurse since 2016 - a time when the... Read more...
Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
One innovation in Asutifi North has been the introduction of kiosks at water points where vendors sell a range of sanitation products. The kiosks not only provide shelter from the sun and rain but improve the livelihoods of water vendors and help to make water systems more sustainable. Read more...
Asutifi North is making giant strides in providing water services for its citizens – but progress on sanitation is proving much harder and slower. 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...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
Seven reasons why the WASH sector should join forces with solid waste programmes. Read more...
Public utilities are expanding into rural areas, are they the future of water and sanitation services? Read more...
This is the first of a series of blog posts on building resilient WASH systems in fragile contexts. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
Reflections on developing a series of position papers which help to chart a path forward in Ethiopia. Read more...
Sanitation workers deserve safe working conditions through legal protection and operational guidelines. Read more...
Why sanitation matters in the climate discourse. Read more...
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...