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Imagine a future where every child in South Ari Woreda/District has clean water to drink, a safe toilet to use, and the knowledge to wash their hands properly. This is no longer a dream, rather it is a mission in motion. In 2019, South Ari Woreda embarked on a journey to achieve Sustainable... Read more...
Exploring the links between community activism, service providers and Self-supply. Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
New global WASH monitoring report will include better information from more countries, including high-income states. Read more...
The Safe Water 2 Programme is "a place for innovation," says Hester Foppen of Aqua for All . As a partner in the ' Safe Water Phase 2' Programme , IRC spoke to her about business viability and innovation at a stakeholder workshop in Nepal in the fall of 2017. Read more...
Key lessons to develop a Country-Led Monitoring (CLM) programme for rural water and sanitation in Liberia. Read more...
Before 2021, national monitoring systems should be able to measure effectively how countries are doing in delivering water, sanitation and hygiene, IRC Burkina Faso Country director Juste Nansi states. Read more...
Government, donors, and implementers must come together and invest in national and sub-national systems. Read more...
We cannot do it alone. Reflections from the 7th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum. Read more...
Strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems in the WASH sector in Western and Central Africa. Read more...
Economic tools help us better understand handpump breakdown. Read more...
There are big expectations for national sector monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems both from the side of governments and from the side of Development Partners (DPs). National scale data collection using ICT in some African countries have set the tone: it is now possible to have data from... Read more...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and government are looking for innovations in their work with smallholder farmers and communities in Lesotho to strengthen their livelihoods and to conserve the environment. Read more...
Mark Radin and Alana Potter reflect on the steps to achieving sanitation commitments. Read more...
In the context of the devolution of political powers and responsibilities to the counties in Kenya, planning for water and sanitation services has to step up. Read more...
Using numbers in local planning for water resources and services helps stakeholders to make (conflicting) interests clearer and choices more explicit. Read more...
Value-for-money analysis should be a bottom-up process and managers of WASH programmes should embrace it to transparently track the progress of their project and to demonstrate results. Read more...
In an on-going study in partnership with UNHCR, IRC is setting-up a methodology to measure the cost of providing water services to refugee population. Read more...
If rural water supply provided under the development heading is in fact more a relief and water supply through relief creates development but in pockets, then what does that teach us? Read more...