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Amelie Dube, programme officer at IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, discusses the efforts of embedding the life-cycle cost approach at local level in relation to sanitation in Burkina Faso. Read more...
The majority of the water and sanitation projects funded by the European Union (EU) in six African countries are not sustainable says the EU's spending watchdog. Read more...
After twenty years of working in Burkina Faso through various local and international partner agencies – among which Eau-Vive, WaterAid, Water and Sanitation for Africa WSA/EEA – the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre is officially opening its national representation in Ouagadougou today. Read more...
Ms Juanita During, the Director of Partnership, Advocacy and Communications at Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, died on 16 August after a brief illness. Read more...
On Friday 29 June 2012, WASH sector professionals and journalists gathered at Sidwaya ( Hebdo newspaper from Ouagadougou) for the Fourth Round of discussions on water – Palabres d’eau. With Abu-bakr Adiz, Director General of Editions Sidwaya, serving as the activity’s Chairperson, attendees... Read more...
The WASHTech project in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda is in its second year of implementation. The key activities of 2012 are to conduct a technology assessment by using the “Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)” currently under development and to document changes resulting from stakeholder... Read more...
From 17 to 20th April, IRC conducted a workshop on how national WASH Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) support learning in their WASH sectors. Read more...
On 7 March 2012, IRC and Florida International University ( FIU ), finalised the agreement to expand IRC’s work on sustainable service delivery into Burkina Faso under the USAID programme: West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH). Read more...
WASHTech project is using cost components of LCCA in the financial indicators for validating WASH technologies. Read more...
The costs presented in this document are the minimum costs of access to sanitation. They are inevitably less than the life-cycle costs of a sustainable sanitation service. Moreover, the unit cost calculated on the basis of household expenditures can by no means be considered as an estimate of the... Read more...
The WASHTech project has published a literature review focusing on 14 technologies used in Africa in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Descriptions for each technology include a selection of interesting case studies, and an explanation as to whether the technology meets technical,... Read more...
Organised by the Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement ( CREPA ), this meeting will focus on the need to improve investment in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. About 200 participants are expected from development organisations, bilateral and multi-lateral groups, civil... Read more...
The thematic discussions ‘ Palabres de l’eau ’ (water talks) are interactive discussions between information professionals working in the water and sanitation sector. The inaugural event took place in Ouagadougou on 4 October 2011 around the theme ‘communes facing the challenges of water and... Read more...
IRC and the National network of resource centres from Burkina Faso (RCR-BF is its French acronym) jointly carried out an investigation around current information and knowledge practices in the WASH sector in Burkina Faso. Read more...
The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) at UNICEF’s request conducted a study in Burkina Faso on analysing microbiology and physic-chemical quality of the water along its supply chain (welling, transport, storage).This was coupled with a study on behavioural... Read more...
In order to introduce the WASHTech project to the actors in the WASH sector, the project country team organized a workshop on July 14 th 2011 at CREPA HQ. Read more...
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead? Read more...
The SaniFaso project aims to eradicate open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) in Burkina Faso. The four-year rural sanitation project, which started in December 2010, will construct 16,000 latrines, train local masons and carry out hygiene promotion... Read more...
Briefing Note “Mapping EU Support for Sanitation in Africa", published by the EU Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group, is based on a full study by WEDC in association with Hydroconseil. The purpose of the study is to obtain an overview of the status of the involvement of EU Member States... 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...