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Dans le cadre du projet WASHcost, l'IRC s'est intéressé aux coûts et à la performance de l'assainissement dans 6 villages ruraux et 3 sites péri-urbain du Burkina Faso. Read more...
La population riveraine de la boulangerie Wend Konta située dans l’arrondissement de Sig-Noghin a manifesté son ral-le-bol ce mercredi 7 novembre 2012. La raison, elle dénonce la construction d’une fosse septique qui aurait des conséquences sur la santé des habitants se trouvant à proximité de... Read more...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) to lead a new sanitation learning and sharing platform. The Gates Foundation’s Sanitation Science and Technology Programme has over 80 projects. SEI and... Read more...
Research and learning are set to become important elements in national planning and monitoring of sanitation and water services. That is, at least, the aim of the Research and Learning (R&L) constituency of the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership (SWA), which meets face-to-face for... Read more...
The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding for new centralised sewerage system into an opportunity. It has revised its plans so that more areas will get connected Read more...
At local level both small providers and consumers need access to financing mechanisms and information to make an informed choice. Read more...
Gender-specific analysis of the supply sector shows up different roles of men and women in the sanitation supply chain that otherwise remain invisible. Read more...
Supply services and marketing need to be adjusted to what users like and can pay. To expand their markets, local producers, shops and masons/construction enterprises must often widen their range of options, especially at the lower end, and market them more actively to poor households, and to the... Read more...
In a cabinet reshuffle Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has been stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. His successor is Bharatsin Madhavsinh Solanki, a former railway minister and a Member of Parliament representing Gujarat’s Anand district. Read more...
The article titled Making sanitation subsidies effective: an IRC summer debate has been taken up in the EADI publication digest of cutting edge publications on development. Read more...
This article provides insight into how the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) used the life-cycle costs approach while collecting household sanitation and hygiene data to support their study on productive and conventional on-site sanitation in Rwanda. Vera van der Grift (IRC) interviewed... Read more...
An overview of five useful outputs published by Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) including an analysis of commitments made by developing countries, a concept note on partnership meetings and a discussion paper on political WASH dialogue at a SWA meeting. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has been actively involved in Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) since its initiation in 2009. Initially IRC was a member of the Interim Core Group (ICG) and since 2011 IRC is an elected member in the SWA steering committee. Read more...
Since its inception in 2009 the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership has grown to include 91 partners. Every two years, SWA organises a global High Level Meeting to address planning and institutional requirements for improving access to water and sanitation. So far SWA has organised two... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) provides the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector with a new platform for engagement. Recognising that countries and organisations around the world can achieve more by working together, Sanitation and Water for All provides a framework for coordinated and... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership of governments, donors, civil society and multilateral organisations. Its aim is to ensure that all people have access to basic sanitation and safe drinking water. It is particularly concerned with those countries where the needs are... Read more...
Building a latrine is only a first step towards an effective sanitation service. The latrine must be used, kept clean, maintained and replaced at the end of its useful life if families and communities are to benefit. The recurrent costs of keeping the latrine clean and maintained, of emptying the... Read more...
A gender approach that involves husbands and wives equitably in the whole process has led to better results. Read more...
Easy to use and low-cost leaflets and catalogues can inform potential customers. Conviction comes more from interpersonal interaction. Interactions can be with promoters, suppliers, relatives and peers, including those who have already installed a toilet. A participatory process with discussions on... Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is 5-20 times the cost of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...