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Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana They have featured in a video promoting handwashing nationally and internationally, which was also shown on Twitter. The students did not know at the time they were being filmed that they were going to... Read more...
When Wassa East District Assembly audited 202 water points in 2015 as part of the SMARter WASH project they found that 50% were not functional. They developed a four-year Sustainable WASH Plan to ensure sustainable access to safe water for all communities in the district. Read more...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Why sanitation matters in the climate discourse. Read more...
Hygiene is both the first and the last defence against diseases due to climate change. Read more...
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment. Read more...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. Read more...
The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
The Indian Government is now embarking on another ambitious 'Jal Jeevan Mission', promising piped water to every household in India by 2024. Read more...
Sustainability of water supply services remains an uphill challenge. Which factors factors undermine the effectiveness of Operation and Maintenance (O&M)? Read more...
IRC Burkina a initié une plateforme d'échange d'expériences et de capitalisation dans les communes exemplaires du Passoré. Read more...
The SDG financing gap will be history, when natural infrastructure (NI) enters the economics and financing computations. Read more...
The community-based management (CBM) model has often been called into question as an effective means of service provision. Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
WaterAid publishes new resource guide. Read more...
On 7-10 August 2018, the Watershed partners came together in Accra to discuss progress and success, and to look at the future. Read more...
USAID programmes collaborate to improve rural water supplies for pastoralist communities in drought-prone regions. Read more...
The unprecedented flood of August 2018 has put Kerala on the spot. Integrated water resources management will have to be a key pillar in managing the recurrent floods and droughts. Read more...
Does using a household water filter help in improving water quality and reduce incidence of diarrhoea? Read more...