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As India is in the final year of national programmes on rural drinking water supply and sanitation, it is a good time to take stock to understand what has worked well and where attention is needed to ensure sustainable WASH services, going beyond building infrastructure. Read more...
Webinar addresses the funding challenges of India's flagship rural water and sanitation initiatives. Read more...
Learn more from four new publications on public finance for community and institutional WASH services. Read more...
Two new Watershed India working papers draw lessons from research in Bihar and Odisha. Read more...
A joint IRC-UNICEF India study across four districts in Odisha. Read more...
Accessibility, affordability, and availability of technology options are crucial for the survival of safe water businesses, says Fanny Boulloud of the Swiss Antenna Foundation. As a partner in the 'Safe Water Phase 2' programme, IRC spoke to Boulloud about business viability at a stakeholder... Read more...
New book reveals how India made community water management work even without charismatic leaders. Read more...
The Indian government has a target to make India ‘Open Defecation Free’ by 2019. All stakeholders are increasing their efforts to meet this target, which will have an impact on more than half the population. Read more...
The Community Water Plus project held a stakeholder meeting with stakeholders from the Government of India and NGOs in New Delhi in September 2013. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...