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An NGO and local governments grapple with the long-term implications of meeting emergency water supply needs during COVID-19. Read more...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Public utilities are expanding into rural areas, are they the future of water and sanitation services? Read more...
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," Henry Ford famously said. Read more...
What does government leadership in the African water and sanitation sector really mean? Perspectives from a technocrat, a politician and IRC's CEO. Read more...
This #GivingTuesday we give more information on the global status, what IRC does and could do. Read more...
Where science meets policy, and practice. Read more...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. 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...
Sustainability of water supply services remains an uphill challenge. Which factors factors undermine the effectiveness of Operation and Maintenance (O&M)? Read more...
Comparing of country scores after assessments of WASH systems can be both tricky and attractive. 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...
USAID programmes collaborate to improve rural water supplies for pastoralist communities in drought-prone regions. Read more...
Case studies of the pay-as-you-fetch (PAYF) model in Kabarole District. Read more...
IRC Uganda is using GIS to map water point functionality. Read more...
Behind all water, sanitation and hygiene data is a story. Very, often these stories are hidden behind cold statistics that enable us to count and tick boxes. Read more...
A checklist to effective adoption and implementation of the pay-as-you-fetch model. Read more...
Stories from the community after IRC Uganda rehabilitated ten boreholes in Kabarole district, an effort to ensure a safe and reliable supply of water for over 3000 people, which in turn would improve health and livelihoods for the benefiting communities. Read more...