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IRC organises a public event to raise awareness on handwashing with soap and to stop open defecation. Read more...
India Sanitation Coalition, IRC and TARU Leading Edge are launching the first #WASHInsights dialogue in New Delhi. Read more...
New report reveals how BRAC, an innovative NGO in Bangladesh, provided sanitation to 39 million people. Read more...
New steps to make Swachh Bharat, or Clean India Campaign, a reality Read more...
The National Hand Washing Secretariat in Uganda recently awarded IRC Uganda a certificate of recognition as one of the key exhibitors during the Global Hand Washing Day celebrations Read more...
“People are developing a taste for healthy living. They want improvement‑compared to us and what we are doing, they want better.” Md Amin Uddin one of the elders in Arua village in Keshabpur upazila, Jessore district, Bangladesh is optimistic about the future. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
IRC country director of India Kurian Baby on how to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Clean India, and what he wishes for his country in 2015. Read more...
Western-central municipality is first in Nepal to achieve TBC in Hygiene and Sanitation. Read more...
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the joint session on cost effectiveness of sanitation and hygiene interventions Read more...
Communications for behaviour change: You can find Coca Cola in slums, but not toilets. Products charged with emotion and passion spread most quickly. Read more...
Regional sanitation conferences have been a feature in the WASH sector for a decade since the first AfricaSan meeting in Johannesburg. At their inception they were a groundbreaking effort to get higher level elected government officials to prioritise sanitation and they have undoubtedly played a... Read more...
Around 30 percent of the national budget of Rwanda is made available to district authorities. Read more...
Each issue of WASHplus Weekly highlights new resources and publications on a wide range of topics related to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and indoor air quality (IAQ). Read more...
This daily newsletter brings you the latest news items, videos and publications spotted by sanitation experts. Read more...
Open defecation and unsafe latrines together account for a high toll taken by water-borne diseases in South Asia. In fact, between 2008 and 2011, that is, the interval between SACOSAN III held in New Delhi and SACOSAN IV that recently concluded in Colombo, 750,000 children under 5 succumbed to... Read more...
Sahel Solidarité received the Burkinabé Merit Order 2010 for its work in water and sanitation, health, education and environment. The NGO was the only organisation to receive this prestigious award for 2010 Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
What does it cost to extend and sustain safe water and hygienic sanitation to poor communities in developing countries? Read more...