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Agenda for Change recently added two new publications to its systems library. Read more...
A mayor's drive to improve water and sanitation Read more...
Achieving systems strengthening at scale by inspiring political commitment Read more...
Achieving scale through associations of municipalities Read more...
Small municipalities struggle to support water supplies in rural areas; they are simply too small to provide technical services. The mancomunidad model offers a solution. Read more...
Deputy Edgardo Martínez has been nominated by organisations in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Honduras to be their spokesperson in National Congress. Read more...
The Roundtable for WASH in Emergencies meets every two weeks to monitor progress of the emergency response plan. Read more...
A stakeholder network has formulated a WASH response to the pandemic in Honduras as contribution to the broader public health response; and continued public service delivery. Read more...
Con el apoyo del IRC, El movimiento de PARA TODOS POR SIEMPRE, publica su informe de monitoreo y evaluación del año 2017, en dicho documento se analiza el estado de los municipios PTPS en comparación con los datos de la línea base del 2016, este análisis se hizo tanto en sus indicadores de PARA... Read more...
Patrick Moriarty and Stef Smits talk about the importance of taking on a systems approach in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
El proyecto busca de desarrollar de modelos innovadores de abastecimiento de agua y saneamiento para poblaciones en áreas rurales dispersas con menos de 200 habitantes, con base en un pilotaje beneficiando a 1.860 personas coen los municipios de Chinda, El Negrito y San Antonio. Read more...
In 2008 IRC set itself the bold goal of catalysing a shift in sector thinking: from delivering hardware to delivering services that last. And we think that by 2015 we've largely achieved that goal. Read more...
And how is aid strengthening the sector's capacities to deliver sustainable water sanitation and hygiene services for all? Read more...
Analysing the outcome of applying guidelines for multiple-use water services in the area MAMCEPAZ area of Honduras. Read more...
Durante el 2011 y 2014 se analizó la implementación y funcionamiento de seis de sistemas con enfoque MUS en la Mancomunidad de Municipios del Centro de La Paz (MAMCEPAZ) en Honduras. Read more...
En el marco de la consolidación del Sistema de Información de Agua y Saneamiento Rural SIASAR , el Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social FHIS, CRS, Water For People, Servicio Autónomo Nacional de Acueductos y Alcantarillados e IRC, tomaron la iniciativa de formular una propuesta de indicadores para... Read more...
Based on a review of the costs of 179 water and sanitation projects carried out by FHIS (Honduran Social Investment Fund) over the last five years, we established the unit cost ranges for different intervention models. We also identified the main factors driving the costs of water and sanitation... Read more...
En base a una revisión de costos de unos 179 proyectos de agua y saneamiento realizados por el FHIS (Fondo Hondureño de Inversión Social) en los últimos cinco años, estamos estableciendo rangos de costos unitarios de acuerdo a diferentes modelos de intervención. Además identificamos los factores... Read more...
2014 was the year in which we got more insight into how rural water supply systems are doing in Honduras. The situation isn't as bad as often thought. Most water systems are working and water is flowing. But a significant portion face problems with for example water quality. And many water... Read more...
Honduras, just like other Central American countries has adopted SIASAR (the Rural Water and Sanitation Information System) to monitor water and sanitation services in rural areas. IRC supports the development and roll-out of SIASAR in different ways. Read more...