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20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk. Read more...
La dignité, santé et sécurité des Burkinabè est une priorité pour le gouvernement du nouveau Président mais aussi pour sa femme qui s'est engagée dans la campagne « FASOTOILETTES 2017 ». Read more...
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy development, monitoring and advocacy. Read more...
The number of US philanthropists with a passion for sanitation has now doubled. Following in the footsteps of Bill Gates who launched Reinventing the Toilet, "Chief Toilet Hacker" John Kluge aims to provide 1 million toilets in the developing world. To kick-start this endeavour, Eirene, a company... Read more...
Journalist Pacôme Tomètissi wants to revisit the fishing communities of Lake Nokoué in Benin to examine the sustainability of a 5 million euro EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project. Read more...
Governance for equity requires stronger multi-sectoral partnerships, more collaboration between the Government, civil society and media and a recognition that Government cannot work by itself. Read more...
Around 30 percent of the national budget of Rwanda is made available to district authorities. Read more...
Assessing Sanitation Service levels: A New Approach is the article by Alana Potter, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, that was published in: Sanitation Matters, Issue 2, 2011. Read more...
The World Bank Institute has published online an earlier Christine Sijbesma, Suma Mathew, and K. Balachandra Kurup case study Community-Managed Sanitation in Kerala, India: Tools to Promote Governance and Improve Health . WBI did this in a 12- page analysis dated January 2010 of IRC and SEUF work... Read more...
African ministers have committed to do what they can ‘in our own back yard’ by using local finance for sanitation rather than depend on hand-outs. They were following the advice of President Kagame of Rwanda who opened AfricaSan 3, the … Read more...
The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa. Read more...
Various users of E-Source dropped by at the IRC stand at AfricaSan 3 sharing how they are using and sharing news articles of their choice with colleages and junior staff. Read more...
The World Bank has approved a US$ 200 million loan to support Egypt’s Second Integrated Sanitation and Sewerage Infrastructure Project (ISSIP 2). The project will provide mproved sanitation and sewerage services to about 1.2 million people in 19 village clusters in the Governorates of Menoufia,... Read more...
In spite of the Government's pledge to commit 0.5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to sanitation, the 2011 budget made provision for 0.1%, said CONIWAS Executive Secretary Benjamin Arthur. The government was also not fulfilling its promise to commit 200 million dollars every year towards water... Read more...
In rural India, extremes of coercion are being used to encourage toilet use writes Liz Chatterjee in the Guardian’s Poverty Matters blog. Her provocative post has drawn comments from the likes of Robert Chambers, Rose George, Ned Breslin and Erik Harvey. Read more...
Interesting key message emerge from a new Research Brief from a recent WSP/World Bank study to improve understanding of the financing of on-site sanitation at the household level through analysis of field experiences in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India (Maharashtra), Mozambique, Senegal,... Read more...
A reusable self-decontaminating sanitary napkin, a children’s latrine training mat and a latrine using urine to flush instead of water are among 26 sanitation technology projects that have been awarded Gates Foundation grants. Read more...
SNV staff from Vietnam published a short story from the "Rural Sanitation Supply Chains and Finance" workshop from January 16 to 21, 2011, that SNV Vietnam organized jointly with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and SNV Asia in the north western Dien Bien province. Read more...