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Join the discussion with government experts and practitioners on 16 November in The Hague. Read more...
The Netherlands has been at the forefront of ensuring sustainability of WASH services. The IOB policy review in 2012 made it clear that a significant percentage of water and sanitation facilities that were developed with Dutch support, provided poor quality services and had limited sustainability... Read more...
Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
This seminar aims to share some of the latest experiences in monitoring for sustainability, and to identify next steps for the wider use of relevant tools within the Consolidated WaSH Account (CWA) and the wider One WaSH National Programme . It is being organised by IRC with the One WaSH National... Read more...
Intern Jimmy Otim realised his passion for WASH in Uganda's Lira District. Read more...
What do we need to understand to overcome the long-standing challenges in the sector? Read more...
The first six innovations selected for the Sanitation Innovation Accelerator 2016 have been formally introduced at a special gathering of water and sanitation experts and investment mentors. Read more...
VIA Water and IRC are pleased to welcome you to an inspirational session with Thomas Rau, a renowned speaker, innovator, visionary and thinker on the topics of the end of property and the circular economy. He is ranked among the Top 5 Dutch key players in sustainability and was elected as Dutch... Read more...
The formal launch of Sanitation Innovation Accelerator 2016 (SIA'16) on the 25th May 2016 (afternoon) at Indian Habitat Center, New Delhi. The Sanitation Innovation Accelerator 2016 Cohort would be introduced to mentors/experts/investors in the sector. A video conferencing session would be... Read more...
The Sanitation Innovation Accelerator attracts and supports market-driven innovations in rural sanitation with a sustainable and scalable business model. Read more...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) must take local context and existing reporting systems into account. Read more...
From projects to services For decades, WASH programs have followed a "business as usual" approach of implementing projects that have largely remained focused on the project and under emphasized the broader context. In the rural sub-sector external funding often finances a WASH project that is... Read more...
The RWSN Forum is the foremost global event on rural water services and takes place every 5 years. Read more...
West and Central Africa conference on financing for WASH aims to get more financial resources to ensure access and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Read more...
"We went back to where it all started: the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa," says IRC's Ton Schouten. This week the monitoring book ' From Infrastructure to Services' was launched in Ethiopia. In the coming 4 years, IRC will keep supporting the... Read more...
IRC was asked by DGIS to support the Netherlands Enterprise Agency with the introduction of sustainability instruments as part of the second round of the Sustainable Water Fund. Another example of how DGIS is taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously. Read more...
The IRC Ghana team together with the Government hosted a sustainability forum as a final activity of the Triple-S project and as a formal start-up of the new initiative "Local Government Capacity Support for WASH". The latter is the project that is following up Triple-S and bringing together CWSA,... 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...
Le 14 et 15 Octobre 2014, CARE International et IRC Burkina Faso ont organisé à Dori, un atelier sur le genre et la participation des femmes dans la fourniture des services d'eau. Cet atelier entre dans le cadre du programme de l'USAID pour l'amélioration de l'approvisionnement en eau potable et... Read more...