News and events

A compact for sustainable systems

Published on: 08/08/2019

UNICEF and IRC join hands to support sustainable WASH services in Burkina Faso.

Un pacte pour des systèmes durables

Published on: 08/08/2019

UNICEF et IRC conjuguent leurs efforts pour des services durables en eau potable, hygiène et assainissement au Burkina Faso.

Bring 9 people, 10th is free!

Published on: 09/07/2018

How to get a free ticket for the All Systems Go! symposium on WASH systems

IRC endorses new strategy of the Rural Water Supply Network

Published on: 30/03/2018

Together with the World Bank, IRC is co-lead of RWSN's Sustainable Services theme.

IRC and Government of Ghana commit to strengthening WASH systems

Published on: 26/03/2018

The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources signs a four-year Memorandum of Understanding with IRC.

Running for Water - what did we achieve?

Published on: 22/12/2017

Some months have passed since the successful wrap-up of our first crowdfunding initiative. We now reflect on how the campaign has brought change to Kabarole district, in Uganda.

New insights into the sustainability of rural water supplies

Published on: 13/09/2017

Stockholm World Water Week discusses World Bank publications on universal metrics.

40th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK

Published on: 12/06/2017

The conference invites participants from over 40 countries to share experiences and achievements on the sustainable delivery of WASH services through international cooperation. The week includes three days to discuss and debate peer reviewed content, followed by two days of tailored capacity...

Webinar: Searching for universal sustainability metrics for rural water services

Published on: 12/06/2017

This webinar is part of a series organised by the Sustainable Services Theme of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN ). There are presentations from IRC and UNICEF on the challenges to measuring the sustainability of rural water supply services. How can the sector agree on a core set of indicators...

Phase out strategies in the WASH sector

Published on: 04/04/2017

Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends.

2017 Colorado WASH Symposium

Published on: 03/04/2017

Organised annually since 2012 by students at the University of Colorado - Boulder, the themes of the 2017 Colorado WASH symposium were: behaviour change, business of WASH, humanitarian, refugee, and other challenging contexts, social dimensions of WASH, systems of WASH, and technology and...

Achieving water and sanitation for all in Ghana by 2030

Published on: 20/03/2017

IRC and the Safe Water Network are piloting a sustainable service delivery approach at district level.

'It's about the systems, stupid!'

Published on: 28/02/2017

We rely on complex systems, but we are "systems blind".

Stay tuned – IRC’s podcast WASH Talk is about to be launched

Published on: 30/01/2017

20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk.

Rushing into solutions without fully grasping the problem

Published on: 30/01/2017

Which factors in the enabling environment and which links between actors are key to achieving reliable sanitation services?

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation supports IRC to plan for sustainable water services in three African countries

Published on: 20/12/2016

IRC has been awarded a US$ 1 million grant to develop a fourteen year programme.

IRC at the 7th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) forum – Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Published on: 28/11/2016

Join IRC at the 7th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) forum – Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

IRC excited by new cutting edge partnership on strengthening local WASH systems

Published on: 04/11/2016

University of Colorado Boulder launches Sustainable WASH Systems Initiative.

IRC Event: Checking and monitoring sustainability of WASH services

Published on: 19/10/2016

Join the discussion with government experts and practitioners on 16 November in The Hague.

Checking and monitoring sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services, 7AM, The Hague

Published on: 05/10/2016

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...

WASH Dialogue on budget tracking and policy in India

Published on: 04/08/2016

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.

Smoothing out the bottleneck in service delivery systems

Published on: 28/07/2016

Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability.

Monitoring for Sustainability: a learning seminar, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Published on: 25/07/2016

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...

Learning and growing with IRC

Published on: 04/07/2016

Intern Jimmy Otim realised his passion for WASH in Uganda's Lira District.

Kampala WASH Symposium background note

Published on: 13/06/2016

What do we need to understand to overcome the long-standing challenges in the sector?