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IRC Uganda and its partners supported and participated in the series of Uganda Water and Environment Week 2021 activities in Kabarole to raise awareness about the sustainable use of water resources. Read more...
Effective WASH services are a source of resilience for communities under threat from COVID-19 Read more...
Bongo District in Upper East Region, is one of the driest areas of Ghana with a population of just over 103,000 people. More than 30 boreholes had to be taken out of use because of dangerously high levels of fluoride in some underground water, causing damage to the bones and teeth of the people who... Read more...
Wassa East in Western Region is an overwhelmingly rural area with a population of more than 105,000 people. The district was facing a water crisis in 2015. About six out of every ten water facilities were non-functional, and payment systems had largely broken down. The District Assembly launched a... Read more...
Conclusions from an intensive two day national symposium held from 20-21 September 2018. Read more...
Les 20 et 21 septembre s'est tenu à Ouagadougou un colloque réunissant les principaux acteurs acteurs burkinabè du secteur de l'assainissement. Etaient aussi invités des spécialistes issus de d'autres secteurs ainsi que des délégations maliennes, nigériennes et béninoises. Read more...
Held on 11 September 2018, the debate discussed the use of the Community-Led Total Sanitation approach as an effective method to achieve changes in behaviour and ending open defecation. Read the report. Read more...
Iyua village was declared Open Defecation Free in 2015. A December 2016 visit by a delegation from the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) traced the lessons and benefits of the village's Open Defecation Free status. Read more...
On 15 December 2016, a delegation from the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) and Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) visited Aton village in Lira. The village was declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) in June 2016. Below are some of the moments that were captured in photos. Read more...
In just two years, Kajumiro village in Rwimi Sub County, transformed from one of the dirtiest villages to a model sanitation village in Kabarole district. What was the magic formula? Read more...
On behalf of the National Sanitation Working Group, IRC Uganda and the Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) organised a learning journey to Lira and Alebtong districts. The purpose was to enable members of the group to learn more about Follow Up MANDONA method and the improvement of sanitation in both... Read more...
Allen is not just all talk. As Water For People's CEO she puts her words into action. Read more...
Sanitation coverage in Amuria district has improved from 52.6% in 2011 to 85% in 2016. How did Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) achieve that? Read more...
The Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) has since 2011, implemented Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in 30 districts in Uganda. As a result,over 6,000 villages have been triggered and over 3 million people are living in Open Defecation Free (ODF) areas. Jane Nabunnya Mulumba , IRC Uganda Country... Read more...
On 7 October 2015, UNICEF student team Wageningen organised a seminar 'What is sustainable sanitation in WASH?". Guest speakers were Marielle Snel from IRC, Joshi Deepa professor at Wageningen University, Harold Hoiting from SIMAVI and Luca Peters who represented UNICEF. Read more...
How can a community-based approach help ensure sustainable urban sanitation services? Read more...
The Pan-Africa programme also known as "Empowering self-help sanitation of rural and peri-urban communities and schools in Africa" launched Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana, Niger and Sierra Leone. The project ran from January 2010 to December... Read more...
One of the objectives of the Pan-Africa programme is the empowerment of communities through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process in eight African countries. Four years into the process and the stories and documents emerging from the countries show that particularly women are playing an... Read more...
Summarising the key findings agreed upon by the participants of the three‐day workshop Read more...
A study commissioned by Plan International on the sustainability of CLTS programs in Africa revealed that 87% of the households still had a functioning latrine. Read more...