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From service delivery approaches to costing studies. IRC posters presented at the 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference in Chapel Hill, USA. Read more...
Participants from IRC, the BRAC WASH programme and Biosol Energy BVAs have been on a study trip to China as part of ongoing action research on the productive use of faecal sludge. This one-week study tour was supervised by the Centre for Sustainable Environmental Sanitation (CSES) at the University... Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? Read more...
A new World Bank study identified lessons for improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an evaluation of existing programs, the international experience on improved stoves, and the lessons from successes in the sanitation sector. Read more...
An overview of Save the Children's School Health and Nutrition program in Bangladesh. Read more...
Dinajpur district residents have stopped defecating in the open because of the children's total sanitation campaign that follows a radical community-led approach. Whistle blowing is a favorite pastime among children in the villages of Dinajpur district in northern Bangladesh. They would blow their... Read more...
The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) has transformed sewage systems in low income, informal settlements ('katchi abadi'), where 60 percent of Karachi's population lives. OPP has challenged development approaches, which are very technical and overly-dependent on government and donor support. Such... Read more...
By the late 1990s, 97 percent of the rural population in Bangladesh had access to an improved water supply. However, the water in many places was contaminated by arsenic causing major risks to health. The government and NGOs have responded by installing alternative water supplies but these... Read more...
A study by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) reviewed the extent to which the five Paris Principles (PPs) on Aid Effectiveness (AE) as set out in the Paris Declaration (PD) on AE: ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability, are being applied in the... Read more...
The Nepal WASH Coalition is able to leverage media coverage and establish the ties needed to bring lasting change in the sanitation and water supply situation in Nepal. Read more...