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In March 2013, CONASA, approved Honduras first every national policy for water and sanitation. Read more...
A new report shows the impact of post-construction support on rural water supply in Colombia. Read more...
IRC and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) have been supporting El Salvador, Honduras and Paraguay to develop and implement rural water monitoring systems. Read more...
Ryan Schweitzer and James Mihelcic from the University of South Florida have developed a Sustainability Assessment Tool for community-managed rural water systems [1]. The tool is novel because it focuses specifically on community management during the post construction phase. It can be used to... Read more...
IRC's work in Latin America focuses very much on Honduras. In other countries in Latin America and at regional level IRC provides advisory services and carries out research. Read more...
Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
Villa Gualberto Villarroel, better known as Cuchumuela, is the first municipality in Bolivia to achieve 100 percent water coverage. Official recognition for their achievement came from Bolivia’s water and environment ministry MMAyA. It is the story of a successful partnership between local... Read more...
The NGO “Give to Colombia” will implement several pilot projects that will serve as models for the Rural Water Supply and Wastewater Management Program in Colombia. The pilot projects will focus on WASH in schools, post-construction support, household connections and self-supply models. IRC has a... Read more...
RAS-HON, as part of a WIN (Water Integrity Network) funded project, developed a manual for facilitators who assist communities and water committees dealing with transparency and accountability issues. The experience of developing the manual has been documented and is presented in a report. Read more...
Various case studies confirm that multiple-use of water is a common practice in rural communities in Honduras. IRC and FHIS developed a guideline to support consideration for these uses in the design and management of rural water supplies. This guideline was applied in a number of communities in... Read more...
El Grupo de Apoyo del IRC al Grupo de Trabajo de África de la Iniciativa por el Agua de la Unión Europea contribuyó a la redacción de dos nuevas notas informativas sobre la Efectividad de la Ayuda en África y Nota informativa sobre el Mapeo del Apoyo de la UE al Saneamiento en África. Read more...
The department of La Paz is located two hours from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. La Paz is a region famous for the coffee export, cold climate and abundant water. There are four projects implemented using the Multiple Use Water Services (MUS) approach by FHIS, the Honduran Social Investment Fund, with... Read more...
On 25 October 2011, IRC together with other SWA partners in Honduras conducted a meeting to inform the Honduran WASH sector on the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) global partnership and to seek the country’s interest to engage with this global partnership and to participate in the next biennial... Read more...
The SWITCH project was a five year experiment focused on some of the key sustainability challenges in urban water management. In a number of cities around the globe, it set out to test what was needed for a transition to more sustainable urban water management through a combination of demand-led... Read more...
Water For People adopted the "Everyone, Forever" approach. IRC carried out a case study to learn lessons on scaling-up rural water and sanitation services. Read more...
Cities in Latin America face a double challenge in environmental sanitation, of both providing access to basic water supply and sanitation for those currently lacking that, and improving the collection and treatment of wastewater and solid waste. Governance is a crucial factor affecting the way in... Read more...
List of papers and authors This list contains the titles (translated into Englih) of the papers and their authors of the seminar on sanitation and governance, organised by IRC together with RRAS-CA Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES ( Red de Agua y Saneamiento de El... Read more...
List of presenters and presentations This list contains the presentors and the titles of the presentations (translated into English) of the seminar on sanitation and governance, organised by IRC together with RRAS-CA (Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES (Red de Agua y... Read more...
IRC’s Latin America Regional Programme and RAS-HON have been collaborating in building capacity for documentation of experiences and making these available in different information products, targeted at different audiences and shared through different channels and at different events. Read more...
This thematic group was created after a series of workshops on the theme organised by several organisations, including the Interamerican Association of Sanitary Engineering (AIDIS) and the Honduran chapter of the PAHO/WHO. Read more...