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IRC experts, guest bloggers, WASH sector colleagues share their ideas, observations and expertise through these informal blogs filtered by topic, projects and more.

Two sides of sanitation: rubbish and cleanliness. Cambodia/India

Sanitation and health: what do we want to know?

Published on: 01/08/2018
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us.

An Analysis of Determinants of Under-5 Mortality across Countries: Defining Priorities to Achieve Targets in Sustainable Develop

Weekly WASH Graph: Under-five Mortality Progress or Failure?

Published on: 25/06/2018
Why we should care about how we display our data.

Azadi Teaching Hospital, Iraq

Inclusive WASH away from home in the Kurdish region of Iraq

Published on: 07/04/2017
World Vision promotes and provides adapted water and sanitation facilities for the disabled.

Handwashing demonstration

Health care facilities need adequate water, sanitation and hygiene

Published on: 11/12/2015
A successful pilot in Ethiopia deserves to be scaled up for health care centres in other parts of the country.

Mohamuni Anglo Pali High School, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Petra Brussee

Beating the drum for institutional WASH

Published on: 19/10/2015
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons.

MKAJI programme Tanzania

Upgrading water supply in primary health facilities

Published on: 14/10/2015
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region.

Community waterpoint

When access to improved water points does not lead to use: Understanding consumption patterns in Burkina Faso

Published on: 06/02/2015
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally...

community water cans

Que faire quand l'acces a l'eau potable ne garantit pas son usage par les menages?

Published on: 06/02/2015
La corrélation directe entre l’accès à l’eau potable et le niveau de santé, de nutrition et autres indicateurs de développement est aujourd’hui largement reconnue. Sur cette base, le secteur conclut souvent qu’il est nécessaire d’allouer davantage d’investissements aux infrastructures (en milieu...

girl pearl earring Mauritshuis

Spotlight on post-2015 development goals

Published on: 02/12/2014
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda.

Bill Gates Oneworld meeting in The Hague

Great talk Bill – but sanitation work is as important as vaccine development!

Published on: 13/11/2014
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague.

Lunch meeting with Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC

The Bangladesh Paradox: exceptional health and sanitation advances despite poverty

Published on: 01/08/2014
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC on the Bangladesh public health miracle, aid or trade, arsenic, floating latrines and the post-2015 development agenda.

IRCwash

Water and sanitation services delivery should be at the heart of climate change adaptation

Published on: 15/05/2014
In this article John Butterworth explains why better access to water and sanitation will pay dividends in helping the most vulnerable people adapt to climate change. He argues that providing water and sanitation services for everyone builds resilience, and should be key part of the climate change...

Peter Ryan Consultant to UNICEF WASH Team, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Making hygiene the central issue

Published on: 14/09/2013
Why are we are building low-cost latrines which may not be able to isolate harmful faecal matter from humans?