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The Watershed partnership's integrated approach to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6. Read more...
A reflection on the challenges and successes during the inception phase of Watershed - empowering citizens. Read more...
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months. Read more...
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... 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...