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Members of the South Ari Woreda water safety team visited Arba Minch Town Water Supply and Sewerage Enterprises and were greatly impressed by the high level of professionalism. Read more...
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," Henry Ford famously said. Read more...
When we talk about water and sanitation systems (WASH), it is easy to think only of infrastructure, construction, and toilets… but that is not just what WASH is about. Read more...
A WaterAid thematic review. Read more...
In fact, it turns out we don't. Read more...
Can Agent-Based simulation models help us to improve services in complex WASH systems? Read more...
The answer lies in four strategic changes in water sector governance. Read more...
Exploring the effects of different ways in which a policy can evolve through collaboration in a social system. Read more...
How can I conceptualise and model learning in the rural water supply system in Uganda? Read more...
UNICEF and IRC start partnership to improve learning in WASH for better services in West and Central Africa Read more...
Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
The capacity to continuously learn and adapt is critical for dealing with complex challenges and future uncertainties. In this first blog in a series about 'a learning and adaptive sector', we discuss why learning is central to achieving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services for life. Read more...
The Sierra Leone WASH sector has asked an IRC-led consortium to set-up a structure for sector learning and to create a common platform for easy access to all sector information. Read more...
A report from the launch of the Regional Level Learning Alliance Platform for Ghana's Brong Ahafo region. Read more...
Learning models were a topic highlight at the second day of IHE-UNESCO's 3-day 5th Delft Symposium on Water Capacity Development. Read more...
Data collection is easier and cheaper than ever. But gathering sound evidence – and using it for positive and lasting change–takes time and collaborative efforts. Read more...
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving water and sanitation services. Read more...
Learning is critical to development, so development practitioners need to reflect on how to nurture learning processes. Read more...
Learning is not optional or just a box to tick off. Knowing what works, what doesn't, for whom and in which contexts is crucial to improve water, sanitation and hygiene interventions for services that last. But using lessons learned requires linking learning to purpose, with a joint vision and... Read more...