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Experiencing IRC's work on water, sanitation and hygiene in Uganda on my first trip Read more...
Why are we headed for failure and what can we do about it? IRC's proof of concept galvanises and empowers local political leadership. Read more...
Lessons from the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) in Ethiopia and Uganda (2016-2021) Read more...
IRC and Water For People announce their newly formed alliance: Destination 2030. Read more...
Building new partnerships and setting clear goals to leverage investment. Read more...
Using learning hub 'model projects' to test new approaches for projects and service delivery. Read more...
Sharing lessons learnt from Somali region around systems thinking in WASH and collaboration between organisations in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
The WASH Systems Academy is inspiring to do more. Read more...
The impact of COVID-19 has been unprecedented on all areas of peoples lives globally, on a scale barely imagined only a few months ago. From the ever growing infection rates and death toll as the virus travelled around the world, to the light it shined on the huge disparities of impact on different... 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...
Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
"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...