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540 people from 120 vulnerable homes in hard-to-reach communities benefit from a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-funded sanitation project. Read more...
Some key changes in the enabling environment could lead to significant growth in the sanitation market. Read more...
Interview with Alana Potter, co-drafter of the Africa Sanitation Policy Guidelines. Read more...
Watershed empowering citizens was a unique programme focused on advocacy and influencing. After 5 years, what have we learned? Read more...
Continuing our pursuit to secure the human right to water and sanitation with an inspirational event at the Peace Palace. Read more...
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate. Read more...
World Toilet Day should really be World Sanitation Systems Day! Read more...
What would happen if we outlawed and started to punish open air defecation in Burkina Faso? Read more...
Access to water and sanitation is a basic human right. No one, whatever their circumstances, should be forced to live in conditions where these services are not made available. And yet this is the case for many inmates in overcrowded prisons around the world. Read more...
A growing number of companies promise safe water, sanitation and hygiene for all their employees. Read more...
For Ugandan prisons, investing in WASH means investing in hygiene behaviour change. Read more...
Eliminating open defecation is not good enough. Real health gains require a bigger step up the sanitation ladder. Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague. Read more...