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Experiencing IRC's work on water, sanitation and hygiene in Uganda on my first trip Read more...
Why are we headed for failure and what can we do about it? IRC's proof of concept galvanises and empowers local political leadership. Read more...
Lessons from the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) in Ethiopia and Uganda (2016-2021) Read more...
Building new partnerships and setting clear goals to leverage investment. Read more...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," Henry Ford famously said. Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
IRC has been promoting the WASH systems approach in Kabarole District for five years now. What are the emerging lessons? Read more...
In Uganda we follow and support where local government leads Read more...
Analysing partnerships and how they strengthen WASH systems. Read more...
Developing a collaborative master plan for Kabarole District to attract more national government funding. Read more...
Working together towards our shared vision of achieving SDG 6 – universal access to sustained WASH services across districts and countries through systems change. Read more...
Rehabilitation of one primary school borehole has been successful but many others still depend on unreliable water. Read more...
District partnerships are at the heart of the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C). Read more...
Exploring the effects of different ways in which a policy can evolve through collaboration in a social system. Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
How can I conceptualise and model learning in the rural water supply system in Uganda? 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...
Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
It's hard to predict what impact investments and innovations in the water sector will have on citizens' access to services. Understanding underlying mechanisms and potential bottlenecks of change can help decide how and where to invest resources, while also giving a more realistic picture of the... Read more...