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For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically. Read more...
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale... Read more...
Will Africa's fastest growing economy and continental success story Ghana succeed in providing everyone with a toilet? A major clean city contest, the Sanitation Challenge, will be launched today on World Toilet Day and should change Ghana's sanitation nightmare over the coming years. Read more...
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. 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...
Here’s a real life riddle: there is a huge problem that has not been solved yet. Many options tried so far only dealt partially with the problem and ironically, you are the one asked to solve the whole problem. You know that everything is important; you know you have to include all parts of the... Read more...
Experts discuss integrated approaches at IRC event in The Hague. Read more...
The new Sustainable Development Goals will not be reached if we do not tackle urban sanitation. This has a serious impact on the health and dignity for all those living in cities, not just the poor. Read more...
Mark Radin and Alana Potter reflect on the steps to achieving sanitation commitments. Read more...
In this blog, I explain the process behind my research on human rights in Burkina Faso's water and sanitation sector. The resulting research report focuses on how the integration of sanitation as a human right in national policies and strategies can improve access to sanitation in rural areas, in... Read more...
IRC Uganda is now a leading member of the Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Coalition in Uganda and is helping to develop MHM indicators. Read more...
It has been generally agreed that the mainstream media are the most effective channel through which to reach wide audiences with key messages. In Uganda, the Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Coalition has worked closely with print and electronic media to promote Menstrual Hygiene Management. Read more...
The world will not reach the sanitation Millennium Development Goal. There are still 1 in 3 people worldwide without access to safe sanitation. Within 15 years we want universal sanitation coverage and we know that we need to do something drastically different to reach scale and to reach the... Read more...
As stated in my last blog, sanitation is more than building a toilet. We are all aware that the MDG target for sanitation will not be reached. By end of 2014, 2.5 billion people did not have access to adequate sanitation which is about one in three of the world's population (WHO/UNICEF Joint... Read more...
The India WASH Summit focused on solutions for Swacch Bharat (Clean India mission), to find ways to meet the goal of making India Open Defecation Free by 2019. The Summit drew sector players, government, elected representatives, bilaterals, multilaterals, donors, INGOs, NGOs, academia and the... Read more...
The 2014 update on Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water (WHO and UNICEF, 2014) mentions that between 1990 and 2012, open defecation decreased from 24 per cent to 14 per cent globally. However, the update also states that more than one third of the global population – some 2.5 billion people —... Read more...
Faute d'un statut social élevé, les hygiénistes locaux formés pour faire la promotion de l'assainissement familial en milieu rural ont un impact limité. Le recours aux coutumiers et au religieux qui jouissent d'une plus grande écoute ne serait pas superflu. Read more...
Today there are more people without access to adequate sanitation than in 2000, despite the commitment included in the MDGs to halve by 2015 the proportion of people without sustainable access to basic sanitation. So what are the key challenges to increase the number of people with access to... Read more...