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IRC's role as learning alliance facilitator, providing funding and expert advice, has proven to be effective in fostering solutions, development and collective action among district stakeholders in Uganda. Read more...
Balancing safe water needs, demands, and rights to water for the people of Kabende sub county, Kabarole district in Uganda Read more...
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...
The WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C) partnership in Uganda embarked on an exercise to document the untold story of WASH, profiling the unserved populations and highlighting the key issues and circumstances that characterize their lack of access to WASH services. Read more...
Under the pay-as-you-fetch management model, a water source caretaker is paid a monthly wage. Caretakers are no longer community volunteers as they used to be and this has improved service delivery. Read more...
IRC has been awarded a US$ 1 million grant to develop a fourteen year programme. Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
Intern Jimmy Otim realised his passion for WASH in Uganda's Lira District. Read more...
How to get the last 35 % unserved in Uganda served? That was the question of the Everyone Forever Hub meeting in Kampala last week between the Ministry of Water and Environment and over 50 representatives from different WASH organisations. IRC Uganda was a co-organiser. Read more...
Experience in Uganda reveals the importance of continuous learning and reflection for providing water services that last. Read more...
In 2013, IRC/ Triple-S Uganda conducted an assessment of the performance of the Service Delivery Model for point water sources. Findings show that there was generally a low service levels but ironically, users were satisfied. This working paper attempts to explain the reasons for that paradox. Read more...
Two approaches to Operation and Maintenance of rural water facilities - a comparative analysis 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...