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IRC and Water For People announce their newly formed alliance: Destination 2030. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
The WASH Systems Academy is inspiring to do more. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
Five sessions on capacity building during the IRC symposium provided additional knowledge and skills in WASH systems practice. Read more...
Is finance a red herring and what is "Rosenboom's law on pilots"? Learn more from an IRC friend for over 30 years. Read more...
We are getting more articulate on how to discuss and demonstrate the importance of the systems approach. Read more...
World Water Week participants engage with elements of the WASH system. Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
IRC Perspectives: day 3 and day 4 of the Stockholm World Water Week 2018 Read more...
Reflections from the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
WaterAid has developed a set of participatory tools that help identify and overcome system barriers. Read more...
As the World Cup soccer gets on its way, it is time to make predictions and projections who might win the SDG 6 World Cup by 2030. Read more...