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At the Kick-off meeting of the RWSN, IRC’s Stef Smits and Marieke Adank and Aguaconsult CEO Harold Lockwood presented recent findings relating to monitoring, sustainability and post-construction support of rural WASH services. Read more...
This question is the first topic for discussion in a series of three WASH in Schools e-debates scheduled for the coming months. The e-debates will take place in the first week of September, October and November 2012 and will focus specifically on WASH in Schools issues. The topics are inspired by... Read more...
IRC supports WASH Resource Centres and their networks (RCNs) in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda. In this video RCN coordinators describe what sector learning looks like in their country. Read more...
En dépit des progrès accomplis depuis quelques années dans le domaine de la survie de l’enfant, la mortalité infanto-juvénile reste élevée au Burkina Faso. Les principales causes de la mortalité des enfants de moins de cinq ans sont le paludisme, la diarrhée et les infections respiratoires aiguës. Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="75"] Photo credit: Wikipedia[/caption] En dépit des progrès accomplis depuis quelques années dans le domaine de la survie de l’enfant, la mortalité infanto-juvénile reste élevée au Burkina Faso. Les principales causes de la mortalité des enfants de moins de... Read more...
Participants at the MOLE XXIII Conference have called for the establishment a national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) Fund to finance capital maintenance of facilities to ensure sustainability. Read more...
‘It’s about sustainable water services, not just about pumps and pipes’. That was one of the main messages (and title) of the presentation on monitoring water services in Ghana, presented by Marieke Adank from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in the ‘Judge us by our outcomes’ session... Read more...
Le monitoring est à l'honneur et à juste titre! Read more...
Commercial productive use of faecal sludge in Bengaluru from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre Read more...
Lessons on sector learning with WASH Resource Centre Networks from IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre Read more...
Check out the video of the webinar Emerging lessons on sector learning with WASH Resource Centre Networks, that was held on 11 July 2012. Read more...
Participants at the MOLE XXIII Conference have called for the establishment of a national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) fund to finance capital maintenance of facilities to ensure sustainability. This is because communities are not able to finance capital maintenance activities on their own... Read more...
Une étude menée par les équipes de l’Institut international de gestion des ressources en eau (IWMI) révèle que l’investissement personnel ou familial des petits agriculteurs dans des systèmes d’irrigation “pourrait redresser le secteur de l’agriculture dans les pays en développement”. … Read more...
La Le débordement de la mare de Dori menace la ville d’inondations ville de Dori, au Nord du Burkina Faso, connait une montée des eaux qui inquiète les populations et autorités locales. L’Agence d’Information du Burkina (AIB) a publié, vendredi 24 août, un communiqué sur les menaces d’inondations... Read more...
IRC supports WASH Resource Centres and their networks (RCNs) in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda. We have been collecting evidence on how resource centre networks support learning and change in the WASH sectors. In this video RCN coordinators describe how they contribute to sector... Read more...
IRC Ghana has organised a Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) training for participants at the MOLE XXIII. The training was in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, WASHCost Project Ghana and the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS). Read more...
The Triple-S Project in Ghana conducted an assessment of water service delivery in its three pilot districts (East Gonja; Akatsi and Sunyani West) on functionality of water facilities and the level of services provided. Read more...
Rural water services in Ghana, particularly those provided by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), are typically seen as responding primarily to the need for good quality drinking water. It is with this in mind that the basic service level of 20 litres of water per person per day of... Read more...
This Briefing Note presents findings on actual access to water services by users in small towns and rural communities, and analyses this access with respect to poverty. Read more...
Rural water coverage has been increasing steadily but there are concerns with high levels of non-functional water point systems fitted with handpumps. Read more...