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The costs of continuous monitoring at scale: insights from SMARTerWASH, Ghana. Read more...
While writing the end-report of the SMARTerWASH Project, it was good to look back and reflect on the scale of the project and the challenges faced and ahead. Read more...
Greg Koch of The Coca-Cola Company highlights the key findings of research on integration of WASH and freshwater conservation Read more...
Watershed strategic partnership seeks allies to build a strong civil society. Read more...
People in Ghana like metaphors. Metaphors make their hearts beat; metaphors also soften what may be too harsh to say directly. Maybe both meanings of metaphors are true for the great efforts of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to create a monitoring system for water supply in rural... Read more...
The objective of Action Research for Learning was to strengthen the capacities of the selected partners for action research, analysis, reporting and learning. Read more...
Will Africa's fastest growing economy and continental success story Ghana succeed in providing everyone with a toilet? A major clean city contest, the Sanitation Challenge, will be launched today on World Toilet Day and should change Ghana's sanitation nightmare over the coming years. Read more...
From service delivery approaches to costing studies. IRC posters presented at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference in Chapel Hill, USA. Read more...
This summary presents preliminary findings from recent network research in Ghana. These are shared to engage a broader community in current research, and should not be taken as firm conclusions. Questions, comments, and feedback are greatly appreciated. Read more...
Triple-S's end of project evaluation shows that the project, and the approaches it has developed, have made an important contribution to a paradigm shift in rural water: globally, and in Ghana, Uganda and other countries where it worked. At the same time, more work and time are needed to... Read more...
During my time in Malawi I learned a lot about the challenges of rural safe water access, and about the challenges of addressing those challenges. I left believing we still have a lot to learn about how change happens, and how to support processes of improvement. This post is to share where I'm... Read more...
Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
Thinking critically about how you do your work and seeing the bigger picture towards which you are working, can improve the effectiveness of your work. Read more...
What about looking deep into on-going WASH programmes and analysing their strengths and weaknesses? What about designing innovative ways of measuring the effectiveness of these approaches? And what about testing adjustments to their activities to make the interventions even more effective? Read more...
The rural water and sanitation sub sector of Ghana is on a positive trajectory towards establishing an inventory of rural and small-towns water systems across the country and a continuous service monitoring process that will enable the sector to measure and report on access, functionality and... Read more...
The capacity to continuously learn and adapt is critical for dealing with complex challenges and future uncertainties. In this first blog in a series about 'a learning and adaptive sector', we discuss why learning is central to achieving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for life. Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 3 million to IRC to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in 13 rural districts in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
A report from the launch of the Regional Level Learning Alliance Platform for Ghana's Brong Ahafo region. Read more...
In this post we'd like to show you what changing the whole system to deliver water services looks in the real world, using the example of our work in Ghana under the Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) project. Read more...
A post reflecting on the theme of World Water Day: 'Affordability of public goods: why does energy outperform water?' Read more...