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"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," Henry Ford famously said. Read more...
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate. Read more...
IRC's learning platform, the WASH Systems Academ y, is shortlisted as one of the ten finalists for the Spindle award "Best Innovation for Development". 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...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
A brief presentation of IRC Burkina's 2017-2021 strategic framework, the progress achieved by the end of 2018 and the expectations for 2019. Read more...
"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...
Bringing effective and decisive political leadership to bear on WASH requires that we expose the system; making it visible and actionable to those with power. IRC's new campaign aims to do just that. Read more...
Drawing your vision of complex systems while listening to panelists' experiences in the field. Read more...
Five sessions on capacity building during the IRC symposium provided additional knowledge and skills in WASH systems practice. Read more...
Revisiting some of the greatest moments from the symposium dedicated to WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
When we talk about water and sanitation systems (WASH), it is easy to think only of infrastructure, construction, and toilets… but that is not just what WASH is about. Read more...
An account of personal reflections on the shift to a systems approach. Read more...
IRC has been promoting the WASH systems approach in Kabarole District for five years now. What are the emerging lessons? Read more...
Is finance a red herring and what is "Rosenboom's law on pilots"? Learn more from an IRC friend for over 30 years. Read more...
In Uganda we follow and support where local government leads Read more...
Why Water for Good applies a systems approach in the context of complex emergencies. Read more...
We are getting more articulate on how to discuss and demonstrate the importance of the systems approach. Read more...