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IRC collaborated with partners to develop a new approach to assess WASH risks in marginal populations in Ethiopia. Read more...
Understanding local systems to find solutions to poor sustainability in Ethiopia Read more...
Lemessa Mekonta is the new IRC country director in Ethiopia. Read more...
We take you on a journey through highlights of our focus countries, collected for the IRC Annual Report 2018. Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded $7.5 million to the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) over five years to improve access to water services for more than 500,000 people in communities and institutions. Read more...
Four reports produced by the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) Learning Partnership published. Read more...
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-... Read more...
This seminar - held at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa on 25 October 2018 - shared innovative research from the WEEP project on measuring water security in the Ethiopian lowlands. This drew on the study of emotions by the WEEP project team (Cranfield University, Oxfam, IRC WASH, IWMI and the... Read more...
Empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets. Read more...
"The award contributed to WASH in ways beyond my imagination" - we talked with Benti Ejeta from Ethiopia about his first year as an awardee . Read more...
As part of the celebration of World Water Day on 22 March 2018, new facilities were opened at the Ethiopian Water Technology Institute in Addis Ababa. His Excellency Ato. Zenebe Garedew, Director General of Ethiopian Water Technology Institute (EWTI) explained his vision for the Institute to be a... Read more...
Ethiopia's regions are promoting sanitation marketing following the national guidelines to drive up access to improved sanitation. Read more...
Aimed at sharing some of the latest experiences and developments in sanitation marketing, the quarterly National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform meeting was held in September 2017 in collaboration with the USAID Transform WASH Project. Read more...
IRC WASH, on behalf of the USAID Transform WASH Consortium, took over providing the secretariat for the national 'Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholder Platform (MSP)' from the World Bank's WSP in June 2017. This is a key opportunity to support the government and the wider sector in developing... Read more...
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component. Read more...
IRC leidt de kenniscomponent en het leren tussen landen. Read more...
Half of all school girls lack information on menstrual hygiene management (MHM). Raising awareness about a basic fact of humanity is the point of World Menstrual Hygiene Management day. Read more...
A young storyteller will carry on the work to which our late colleague dedicated so much of his professional life. Read more...
The Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity in conjunction with Water Integrity Network (WIN) organised the first ever Water Integrity Forum for East Africa, May 9-11. The event was in Addis Ababa. Read more...
The World Bank in Ethiopia has commissioned a rapid survey of what motivates people to upgrade their latrines, with the aim of delivering behaviour change communication materials with greater impact. Read more...
