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Looking back on Post-COP Activists Connect Read more...
Watershed empowering citizens was a unique programme focused on advocacy and influencing. After 5 years, what have we learned? Read more...
IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis. Read more...
Ceci est une brève présentation du cadre stratégique d'IRC Burkina 2017-2021, des progrès réalisés à la fin de l'année 2018 et des perspectives pour l'année 2019 Read more...
Continuing our pursuit to secure the human right to water and sanitation with an inspirational event at the Peace Palace. Read more...
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate. Read more...
"If you do not yield to anyone's advice, the world will teach you the lessons it wants you to learn," my mother always said. Often, this was a cautionary tale and it usually came after realizing that no matter what she said or did, you would not yield to her advice. Somehow, this is the same... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso saw the election campaign as the ideal opportunity to bring water and sanitation to the forefront. Read more...
Access to water and sanitation is a basic human right. No one, whatever their circumstances, should be forced to live in conditions where these services are not made available. And yet this is the case for many inmates in overcrowded prisons around the world. Read more...
For Ugandan prisons, investing in WASH means investing in hygiene behaviour change. Read more...
Eliminating open defecation is not good enough. Real health gains require a bigger step up the sanitation ladder. Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...
The shutoffs of water to thousands of homes by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department have become international news, as residents and local activists have found U.N. experts on their side in condemning the water disconnections as a violation of the human right to water. Read more...