IRC in the media
Media organisations come to IRC for globally-acknowledged expertise in the fields of water, sanitation and hygiene
Media organisations come to IRC for globally-acknowledged expertise in the fields of water, sanitation and hygiene
Systems change is often difficult to understand and almost always very difficult to do, so when I was invited to the IRC's 'All systems go' symposium in the Hague I jumped at the opportunity. Three days of exploring systems change in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector with those actually doing it in different contexts around the world was too good a learning opportunity to pass up. Read more.
Richard Bassono of IRC Burkina Faso highlights the first findings from the district Master plan Banfora in southwest Burkina Faso. Read more.
The IRC Ghana has entered the 2019 SDG Action Awards with its WASH project in Asutifi North district. The project is seen as a first of a kind including a masterplan to provide WASH services to 10,000 inhabitants and achieve SDG6 on water by 2030. The masterplan has been established together with Asutifi North District authorities, national government, chiefs, market women, water service providers, the private sector, local NGOs and sachet water producers.
Devex published an article written by Sophie Edwards about discussions around innovative financing streams at the recent Stockholm World Water Week conference:
STOCKHOLM — With new data revealing how far off target the water and sanitation sector is in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, advocates are grappling with the question of how to catalyze more funding.
At World Water Week, there was a growing sense that unlocking private finance and working more collaboratively across sectors will be critical to meeting the ambitious goals. The World Bank estimates an additional $114 billion per year is needed in order to achieve universal access to WASH; in 2014, development finance for water stood at just $18 billion.
Financial experts at the session debated the need for the global water sector to attract additional private money – next to fundings from governments and donors, to be able to scale up the projects for more taps and toilets.
STOCKHOLM — Water advocates are calling for governments to prioritize water, for donors to offer innovative financing solutions, and for practitioners to step outside their technical bubbles ahead of the biggest annual conference in the water sector's calendar.
A Learning and Practice Convening workshop has opened in Accra for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) who have pre-qualified for the final stage of the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) contest, dubbed the "Dignified City" award. [...] The two-day workshop, would be facilitated by the SC4Gh team comprising of the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Office of Head of Local Government Service, IMC Worldwide, IRC Ghana, and Maple Consult. Full article published by the Ghana News Agency on 25 July 2018.
Social entrepreneurs can save lives in Nepal by selling affordable water treatment solutions (such as filters or chlorine flasks) that clean contaminated water, says water expert Fanny Boulloud. But creating supply and demand in the land of 6,000 rivers proves difficult. In interview with Fanny Boulloud of Antenna Foundation.[May 2018]
IWA published an article Carolina Latorre and Mohamed Tawfik on their website on 19 April 2018, which contained the "hidden part of the Iceberg" image of major maintenance and indirect costs, taken from a presentation by IRC's Catarina Fionseca.