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Strong civil society leaders share how they are fighting to bring safe water and sanitation to their communities. Read more...
An indigenous movement helps women and people living with disabilities advocate for their rights in public platforms. Read more...
What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries learn from Kenya's successful approach to improve menstrual health management? Read more...
Grants awarded for WASH in healthcare facility advocacy Read more...
How do you finance water utilities when traditional sources of capital dry up? Read more...
Watershed heeft een geïntegreerde aanpak om SDG6 te behalen. Read more...
The Watershed partnership's integrated approach to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6. Read more...
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Read more...
A reflection on the challenges and successes during the inception phase of Watershed - empowering citizens. Read more...
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months. Read more...
Africa's governments should "put resolute actions in favour of water and should confront the immediate challenges of scarcity of safe and clean water." a plea by Hon. Kibaki at the opening of the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read more...
On 17 March, IRC made a key presentation on factors that enhance and hinder effective WASH in school programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. This was for a Kenyan delegation from Nakuru who were in the Netherlands for the Football for Water programme. Read more...
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International en Akvo gaan intensief samenwerken aan verbetering duurzaam beheer van water, sanitaire en hygiëne voorzieningen en van waterbronnen. Read more...
As a result of Africasan Award for Youth going to Maji na Ufanisi for its work with Kongowea Youth, Mombasa County Government has decided to invest $2 milllion within the next one year to extend the initiative of youth managing WASH. Read more...
How do you set up a reliable water supply system when an area is facing ten months of extreme drought every year? How do you make sure that the one thing that matters, your cattle, stay alive? "You start planning for the worst." Read more...
Former president of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the Millennium Water Alliance-Kenya strategic plan last week in Nairobi and called for efficient and effective water governance. IRC is a partner in the Millennium Water Alliance. Read more...
Every month IRCconsult interviews an expert and highlights fieldwork somewhere around the world. This time: René van Lieshout, senior water and sanitation programme manager at IRC travelling to Kenya. Read more...
The focus of IRC's work in Africa outside the focus countries is on strengthening regional institutions and platforms to support government leadership towards achieving nationally defined sector priorities and targets; advocate for policies and practices that adopt a government-led service delivery... Read more...
On the 4 th of April, a conference on “Improving Resilience Building Water Strategies in Arid Lands” has gathered about 100 participants in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference aimed at sharing experiences of the Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH program with experts of the WASH and... Read more...