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Recently I listened to a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger on how the climate movement is stuck and needs to reset. I think our approach to solving the water and sanitation crisis could help. Read more...
Building resilience is not a "nice to have"- it is essential, says Ban Ki Moon. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
Why sanitation matters in the climate discourse. Read more...
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
An urban sanitation diagnostic tool to identify bottlenecks in sanitation systems. Read more...
Providing water, sanitation and hygiene services that last forever for everyone, is all about systems. 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...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 3 million to IRC to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in 13 rural districts in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...