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
Een blog voor Vice Versa door Stef Smits.
Afgelopen week kwamen de uitslagen van de eindexamens. Minister Ploumen kan haar vlag met boekentas nog niet uithangen. Als ik zo haar rapport en cijferlijst bekijk, moet ze voor tenminste één van haar hoofdvakken – water – op herkansing, schrijft Stef Smits van IRC. In deze blog heeft hij een aantal oefenvragen ter voorbereiding.
Slecht rapportcijfer voor het hoofdvak 'water'
Long considered a symbol of development aid, up to 40% of handpumps in sub-Saharan Africa are broken at any one time.
"The method whereby agencies go in and just put boreholes in without the necessary support structures has to end," says Casey. A coalition of NGOs – including WaterAid, IRC and Water for People – are working towards the Agenda for Change, a plan to transform how rural water supplies are provided. "It's about working with national systems, supporting where changes or adjustments to those systems need to be made, and really pushing to get these sustainable water supply services in place," says Casey. "There's a momentum gathering and we'd like more NGOs to come onboard with the principles."
Published in The Guardian on 22 March 2016.
How does a typical day of an IRC employee look like? Catarina Fonseca kept a diary for EA, the alumni magazine of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Therein, she talks about her background and what drives her to work at the IRC. According to Fonseca, it is an art to avoid both naivety and cynicism. An ingenious formula does not exist: "Social change takes time."
Read the story in EA.
An interview with Kurian Baby in the CityLab by Ananya Bhattacharyya. Ananya Bhattacharyya is a Washington-based writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washingtonian, Reuters, Al Jazeera America, Vice and The Baltimore Sun.
In the week in which the world comes together to take its next toddler (better than baby - but still needing work!), how do we make the provision of water and sanitation climate proof?
In The Hague, IRC celebrated World Toilet Day with the children of group 8 of the Den Hertog Primary School. Erick, our sanitation expert, very eloquently explained to a classroom filled with 12-year olds what IRC does and why. After that, the class went to record a videoclip on a toilet song! (for the Dutch: it was a song of "Kinderen voor Kinderen"). Two journalists were present to cover the event: children's magazine Sam Sam and The Hague TV and FM. The video clip and a nice recap can be found here.
19 November was World Toilet Day. Around the world people celebrated their toilets, their water and soap. It sounds funny, but toilets are a deadly serious business -- explains IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty in the HuffPost Blog
On World Toilet Day, IRC calls on every local and national government to prioritize and invest in sanitation services. Other Dutch organisations such as Simavi, Aqua for All and SNV share the business wise vision as expressed on their websites. The World Toilet Organization has made 19 November, the official UN World Toilet Day. This year the focus is: Better Sanitation for Better Nutrition.
Patrick stresses the importance of creating lasting systems to achieving the Global Goals, particularly for providing sanitation and drinking water services. Patrick shares how funders can help grantees transition from service providers to systems builders. As a guest blog on WASHFunders.org. [03 November 2015]
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. A blog by the Huffingtonpost.