Opinions and voices for change
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A blog based on the background paper of All systems Go Africa , written by Juste Nansi, Country Director IRC Burkina Faso and Director Africa Regional Programme and Elizabeth Ketty Wamera PhD., WASH Specialist, Regional Office for West & Central Africa UNICEF. Read more...
A large proportion of Tanzanians still do not have access to improved water sources. Read more...
"IRC is having real impact in the WASH sector internationally and especially in its six focus countries". Read more...
The answer lies in four strategic changes in water sector governance. Read more...
This post comes from Angela's expedited entry into the WASH sector to research why sustained success has been limited and to uncover which approaches to change might lead to lasting service provision. Read more...
District partnerships are at the heart of the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C). Read more...
What can the sector learn from circular economy visionary Thomas Rau? Read more...
2016 is a crucial year for IRC India. With its strong track record in India, IRC is well positioned to develop and establish a country programme there. Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...
At IRC we're pretty clear about our aims – about the world we want to see. Everyone, everywhere enjoying access to water, sanitation and hygiene services that last forever. But how to get there? And what's our role? Read more...
Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
In this blog Patrick Moriarty reflects on Stockholm World Water Week 2014. There is good progress in language (and some tools) around the role of government in delivering services, he argues. But it's still an uphill struggle on who pays for what. 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...
There are a range of sustainability tools for water. However tools alone do not automatically mean that services will improve, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable. Read more...
Top item on an overloaded agenda at the moment is the upcoming mid-term assessment of our Triple-S (link) project. As we prepare a terms of reference for the exercise we’ve been engaging with a number of external thinkers to help us create something that can meet the dual objectives of judging... Read more...