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The dialogue "Scaling up financing for water, sanitation, hygiene, environment and climate change to achieve 2030 agenda" held 30 August 2023 is the fourth in the series co-organised under the tripartite collaboration between Water Resources Institute - Ministry of Water and Environment, IRCWASH... Read more...
Join IRC Uganda and partners on Zoom for Dialogue Session No. IV - Innovative financing mechanisms on Thursday 16 March. Read more...
Tackling Uganda's WASH, environment and climate change financing gap in Uganda. Read more...
Civil society working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Uganda together with the Ministry of Water and Environment are engaging to re-align sector implementation to the new programmatic approach of the National Development Plan III. Read more...
Making the case for affordable safe drinking water in Kabarole, Uganda Read more...
An analysis by IRC Uganda and a CSO group reveals higher targets amidst reduced funding. Read more...
Planning is the WASH systems building block that involves budgeting and the determination of costs and financing details. Planning for WASH systems requires strategic (long-term) and annual (activities and routine costs) planning as well as project planning for infrastructure development. Read more...
'Approaching the last mile' and 'Around the village pump', two articles in which IRC discusses the issues around attaining SDG 6. Read more...
Het is alweer een aantal maanden geleden dat IRC’s eerste fondsenwervingscampagne ten einde kwam. We vertellen hieronder over hoe de campagne verschil heeft gemaakt in het district, Kabarole, in Oeganda. Read more...
Asset management is critical for all WASH systems as 30% of the infrastructure is often not working. Read more...
At the first Water Integrity Forum for East Africa, IRC hosted a session on bridging the financing gap in WASH. Read more...
IRC conducts budget tracking studies to understand the financial flows, the district budget and expenditure on different categories of rural water activities and analyze changes in allocations across life-cycle costs categories. Basing on budget tracking exercises for the periods 2009/10 – 2012/13... Read more...
Financing for the water and environment sector in Uganda has shown a declining trend since 2008, leading to a reduction in funding for key aspects of water supply services. Read more...
Triple-S (Sustainable Services at Scale) has led a process of learning and innovation to improve rural water service delivery in Ghana and Uganda. Each experiment has documented, results and recommendations shared with stakeholders in the two countries. In addition, the progress on the innovation... Read more...
In 2013, IRC/ Triple-S Uganda conducted an assessment of the performance of the Service Delivery Model for point water sources. Findings show that there was generally a low service levels but ironically, users were satisfied. This working paper attempts to explain the reasons for that paradox. Read more...
Have a look at the real cost for capital maintenance of water supply in small towns and growing rural centres in Uganda Read more...
Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest. Read more...
In Uganda some water committees are allowing users to borrow surplus money in the form of low-interest loans. Could this twist on a traditional loans scheme encourage users to pay their water fees? Read more...
IRC Uganda started the process of introducing the LCCA in the Ugandan water and sanitation sector in 2011, and has since carried out an information scan on funding in the Uganda WASH sector. Read more...
Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...