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IRC together with Water For People represented One For All at Stockholm World Water Week 2023. Our reflections focus on systems leadership, the Heads of States Initiatives and climate resilient WASH. Read more...
Lessons learnt from WASH First COVID-19 Response Project in Ethiopia Read more...
Some key changes in the enabling environment could lead to significant growth in the sanitation market. Read more...
Reflections from district level WASH SDG master planning in Negelle Arsi and Shashamane, Ethiopia Read more...
Water supply for all: How can digital solutions help increase access for vulnerable populations? Lessons from Tanzania and Ethiopia. Read more...
Last week, the Para Todos, Por Siempre (Everyone, Forever) initiative presented its results over 2019. It led me to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly of our experiences with monitoring in Honduras. 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...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. Read more...
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation? Read more...
The recent JMP report shows how India is accelerating the rate of reducing open defecation, due to the efforts of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The question is whether there are other countries that are seeing such acceleration. Is there another India out there? 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...
The community-based management (CBM) model has often been called into question as an effective means of service provision. Read more...
Last week, a number of Agenda for Change members that are working on WASH systems strengthening in countries in Latin America came together for a learning and sharing event. A key point of discussion in that event was the importance of political leadership at local level, but also the systemic... Read more...
During the Thursday morning monitoring and learning session at IRC's All systems go! participants discussed factors than enable or hamper use of monitoring data in evidence-based decision making. Read more...
An account of personal reflections on the shift to a systems approach. Read more...
Why should I care about measuring and monitoring? Well, if you don't measure before you make a change and monitor it over time, how will you know if your change is making a difference (positive or negative)? Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
New global WASH monitoring report will include better information from more countries, including high-income states. Read more...
IRC Perspectives: day 3 and day 4 of the Stockholm World Water Week 2018 Read more...
This blog looks at the experience of using 'Payment-by-Results' in Tanzania's water sector, and how adaptive programming is key to bridging the gap. Read more...