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Participants of local government training of area mechanics in Ghana

IRC supports local government training of area mechanics in Ghana

Published on: 25/05/2018
Two districts in the Volta Region of Ghana - Akatsi North and Akatsi South - benefited from a five-day area mechanic training.

Launch of the project in Asutifi North

Asutifi North district in Ghana launches united effort to achieve WASH for all by 2030

Published on: 19/03/2018
District, communities, IRC and partners pledge to deliver on SDG promises

Fetching water in Ghana

Ghana’s Asutifi North District wants to set example with WASH masterplan

Published on: 12/10/2017
IRC Ghana is partner in a new pilot called the 'District Based 100% Full WASH Coverage Initiative'.

Ghana delegation to SWWW

District-based initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6: building country systems in Ghana

Published on: 27/08/2017
In Asutifi North District in Ghana, the local government works with IRC, Safe Water Network and World Vision (Conrad N. Hilton Foundation partners) to make it the first Ghanaian district where everyone has access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.

Recording WASH Talk

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.

Latrine doors

National social innovation contest for local development of household sanitation: watch this space!

Published on: 24/01/2017
Unfortunately, the contest launched by IRC was inconclusive.

Bangladeshi women standing in line for water

IRC has signed the Civic Charter

Published on: 16/01/2017
By signing the Civic Charter IRC shows that it is accountable to the people it serves.

Latrine under construction

Sludge Enterprise at WASH Futures Conference 2016

Published on: 12/01/2017
Successful Sludge Enterprises in Small Urban Centres in Zimbabwe selected as a poster presentation at WASH FUTURES 2016 in Brisbane, Australia.

Open Air Defecation free certificates

Once on board, the rest is up to you: community commitment's the key

Published on: 21/11/2016
World Toilet Day in Burkina Faso: access to toilets is everyone's responsibility reminds the Minister for Water and Sanitation

GLAAS workshop 2016

Enabling policy- and decision-makers to make informed decisions for (drinking) water, sanitation and hygiene

Published on: 02/11/2016
Inspiring workshop on the Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2016/7 surveys and network building between Southern African countries.

AWW 2016 session

“Support Africa to drive her own WASH destiny” – Hon. Mwai Kibaki, UNESCO Special Envoy for Water in Africa

Published on: 20/07/2016
Africa's governments should "put resolute actions in favour of water and should confront the immediate challenges of scarcity of safe and clean water." a plea by Hon. Kibaki at the opening of the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Watershed wordmark cpature

Watershed empowering citizens programme

Published on: 13/05/2016
We have to get the next five years right if we are to meet the target of universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.

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Celebrating World Water Day

Published on: 21/03/2016
The African water sector needs qualified staff in all disciplines, not just engineering.

Photo: Petterik Wiggers

Self-supply Fair 2016 in Addis Ababa

Published on: 11/03/2016
My Water, My Business 2016 is an exhibition and seminar focused on Self-supply and linked to World Water Day 2016. The ambitious aim this year is to bring together different approaches to household-level provision, so going beyond domestic water supply to include household irrigation, water...

Monitoring together

Doing research and taking action

Published on: 25/02/2016
Having local researchers work with local stakeholders on the development of monitoring tools has been an important success of the Action Research for Learning programme.

Susan Alobo, HPM Adekwokok sub county, treasurer Lira HPMA

Who says a girl cannot repair boreholes?

Published on: 20/02/2016
Hand Pump Mechanics are always on call to repair water sources whenever they break down. Water source repair is largely a man's world, but who says a girl cannot fit in?

Owaraga Simon Peter, Caretaker Onamudian village borehole, Pallisa District

A day in the life of a water source caretaker

Published on: 20/02/2016
Who is taking care of the hand pump, replacing wearing parts, and keeping the service going?

FIPAG brochure

Mozambican water utility develops gender policy and strategy

Published on: 12/02/2016
IRC helps develop action plan to integrate gender justice in urban water supply.

Ethiopia Awash - Amref Health Africa

Learning to do better

Published on: 08/12/2015
Communities in Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda and Bangladesh are en route to better health with the help of local NGOs.

Users collect water from a protected spring in Namayingo District, Uganda

IRC Uganda advocates for increased O&M funding

Published on: 31/08/2015
IRC Uganda is currently involved in key advocacy initiatives to increase operation and maintenance (O&M) funds and ultimately to change the budget allocations in the District Water and Sanitation Conditional Grant.

Photo: Petterik Wiggers, Panos Pictures

Technical meeting debates private sector involvement in the Ethiopian WaSH sector

Published on: 24/07/2015
On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus...

Jo Smet

Drivers for change: the human factor

Published on: 22/07/2015
You must know about the culture and beliefs of communities before co-creating solutions with them.

A hand pump mechanic at work in Kabarole District, Uganda

IRC Uganda Joins Ministry of Water to disseminate National HPMA framework

Published on: 15/07/2015
In 2011 the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda adopted a strategy of establishing district based Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) to strengthen Operation and Maintenance of rural water systems and increase functionality of rural water sources. IRC Uganda has been working closely...

Water tank, Tamil Nadu

Case studies Community Water Plus Project

Published on: 11/06/2015
The Community Water Plus project investigates the support that is being provided to community-managed rural water supplies. This is being done for twenty case studies of programmes from across India.

Secretary at Patharpratima block office

Assessing the costs and impacts of support to community managed rural water supply in India; how to?

Published on: 05/06/2015
For community-managed rural water supply to be sustainable, a "plus" is needed: special efforts to empower communities during project implementation, and continued support from government during service delivery. The Community Water Plus project seeks to get a better understanding of the costs of...

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