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Building resilience is not a "nice to have"- it is essential, says Ban Ki Moon. Read more...
What challenges are women in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) businesses facing in Ethiopia? 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...
Ever wonder if using the acronym WASH (however clever) has been a barrier to communicating what our sector does? Is it telling of our ability to communicate clearly? Read more...
How virtual field visits allow sneak peeks over the shoulders of colleagues. Read more...
Our strategic systems responses to the pandemic and climate change. Read more...
Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana In March 2018 Janet Wilson was fetching water from the old well in Agravi village when a camera crew arrived and started filming. In the video posted online , she can be seen – a woman in her early 60s... Read more...
A call for safely managed sanitation. Read more...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
WASH businesses that are attempting to enter both water and sanitation markets worldwide are frequently not what you'd call "business as usual". Many of them are social enterprises started by passionate people who put people before profit and exist primarily to meet a specific challenge. Read more...
Lean government needs a lean private sector to deliver safe water and sanitation to everyone. Both are part of an effective public system. Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
IRC Perspectives: day 3 and day 4 of the Stockholm World Water Week 2018 Read more...
WaterAid has developed a set of participatory tools that help identify and overcome system barriers. Read more...
With Propeller we continue our campaign series to raise awareness about the importance of systems building and thinking in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Read more...
Achieving political commitment to the sustainable delivery of WASH services is generally not the problem. It is making governments realise that this is much more than providing a water pump. Do you want to hold your government accountable? Have them 'Adopt an SDG'! Read more...
Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. 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...
Reflections from the Kampala WASH Symposium by Susan Davis of Improve International. Read more...
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda. Read more...