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Building resilience is not a "nice to have"- it is essential, says Ban Ki Moon. 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...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation? Read more...
Is this about that 10euros I owe you? No. It's about the critical importance of finance as a building block within the systems approach Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
Watershed partners beat the drum for public finance, civil society and good water governance. Read more...
How can impact investment address the multi-million dollar financing gap in the water sector? Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
The Conference Financing for Development (13 – 16 July 2015) will make a strong call on the importance of increased domestic public finance towards funding the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
Traditionally we've looked to the three Ts to finance water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, with the focus on transfers and tariffs. But this leaves a large financing gap. One which, if we don't solve, will make us miss the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of universal access. Read more...
We have to spend more and faster than we are doing now if we want everyone to have water and sanitation by 2030. Read more...
In this blog, economist and IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca argues that taxation is crucial in reaching the post-2015 development agenda. "Tax is a prerequisite for governments to become truly democratically accountable to their people," she says. 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...
In this blog, IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca discusses the financing of the post-2015 development goals. "A substantial part of funding for development should be sought elsewhere," she argues. Through public finance. Or tax, as we call it. Read more...
"The 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of true WASH service delivery is entirely within our reach," argues CEO of IRC Patrick Moriarty in this second of three blog posts. "We're ready. What's to stop us? Two big scary words: Government and Money." Read more...