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Read "Driving change : strengthening local systems in the water and sanitation sectors" Read more...
This legacy page gives a brief overview of the project approach and flagship publications. Read more...
Stories and lessons learned from collective action by organisations supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and their partners. Read more...
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component. Read more...
Having local researchers work with local stakeholders on the development of monitoring tools has been an important success of the Action Research for Learning programme. Read more...
Communities in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Bangladesh are en route to better health with the help of local NGOs. Read more...
More funding for a local government-led approach introduced in 2008 by SNV and IRC to scale up sanitation from community to district level. Read more...
Lessons learnt from the Pan-Africa programme have prompted several countries to turn the sanitation challenges into opportunities for progress. Read more...
Eight African countries are creatively achieving the goals of community led total sanitation programmes (CLTS) including one idea in Malawi where handwashing is monitored according to the health of tree seedlings planted beneath water outlets. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...