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"El agua debe ser incolora en todos los aspectos, es decir que tampoco debe tener color político, ni debe verse como un medio para ganar votos, nuestra única motivación debe ser garantizar ese derecho humano de acceso al agua, para todos y por siempre". Alcalde de San Antonio de Cortés. Read more...
The holidays are over, so the Weekly WASH Graphs are back. This week, I will give you a sneak preview of the way we measure the strength of the WASH system at IRC. Read more...
As countries, regions and municipalities are making plans to reach universal access to WASH services, a frequently heard question is how much does it actually cost to provide services to everyone in the area? This week's "weekly WASH graph" will provide some magic numbers of the costs of reaching '... Read more...
The motto of the Sustainable Development Goals is "leaving no one behind". For water and sanitation this implies that all people – including those families who live in the last house on top of the mountain - must have access to water and sanitation services. Water For People and IRC in Honduras... Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
I am waiting for the moment that the newspapers report it is all quiet on the waterfront. Read more...
What is it that IADB's Max Valasquez Matute in Honduras finds 'only a bit short of a miracle'? Read more...
Anyone who works in the water sector cannot have missed the consultations and debates on the post-2015 goals for water and sanitation. Read more...
Results and lessons learned from a pilot Output-Based Aid (OBA) facility are presented in a new note by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA). Read more...
Sector learning is a new thematic area of the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Sector learning seeks to systemise the capture and sharing of experiences in the WASH sector and to develop the sector's capacity to reflect on the lessons. It provides a framework at the national level to... Read more...