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While writing the end-report of the SMARTerWASH Project, it was good to look back and reflect on the scale of the project and the challenges faced and ahead. Read more...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
We cannot do it alone. Reflections from the 7th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum. Read more...
Strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems in the WASH sector in Western and Central Africa. Read more...
When something is broken, we might shout for help and then, if we are lucky, get it fixed. Our kids try this and sometimes they get a response. Something similar happens in water supply. Read more...
Akvo's lunch lecture at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read more...
The latest institutional developments around Goal 6 for water and sanitation were presented at World Water Week in Stockholm Read more...
The capacity to use WaSH Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Management Information System (MIS) at lower levels for planning, reporting and learning looks frail. Read more...
The long road to data savviness. Read more...
District partnerships are at the heart of the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C). Read more...
Economic tools help us better understand handpump breakdown. Read more...
How the World Bank's Water Global Practice and Innovation Labs are partnering to get practical operational solutions. Read more...
There are big expectations for national sector monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems both from the side of governments and from the side of Development Partners (DPs). National scale data collection using ICT in some African countries have set the tone: it is now possible to have data from... Read more...
People in Ghana like metaphors. Metaphors make their hearts beat; metaphors also soften what may be too harsh to say directly. Maybe both meanings of metaphors are true for the great efforts of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) to create a monitoring system for water supply in rural... Read more...
Water point mapping around the world has accelerated at unprecedented rates, writes Brian Banks (Global Water Challenge) in his guest blog. Read more...
The objective of Action Research for Learning was to strengthen the capacities of the selected partners for action research, analysis, reporting and learning. Read more...
For less than US$12 per person per year a town in Honduras can ensure that everyone's water supply keeps working. Read more...
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo y el IRC colaboran para conocer el estado del arte sobre los niveles de los servicios de agua y saneamiento en el área rural de América Latina y el Caribe. Read more...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and government are looking for innovations in their work with smallholder farmers and communities in Lesotho to strengthen their livelihoods and to conserve the environment. Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...