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This presentation explains what is not working for water and sanitation service delivery. Read more...
Monsieur le Responsable, Bonjour, Nous sommes une Structure qui œuvre dans la République Démocratique du Congo, province de Bandundu, ville de Kikwit. Nous travaillons dans le domaine de l'aménagement des sources d'eau potable. Nous sollicitons auprès de vous un partenariat en ce qui concerne les... Read more...
The ‘WASH Conference 2011: Towards Sustainability in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene’ was held in Brisbane from 16th to 20th May 2011. Triple-S provided key lessons on how to improve rural water service delivery. Read more...
Akwoyo protected spring in Ngetta Sub-County, Lira district badly needs a touch up. But rather than collect the funds required for the repairs, users are waiting for the area Member of Parliament to provide help. Read more...
Le forum national de l’eau et de l’assainissement du Niger s’est tenu au Palais de congrès de Niamey du 27 au 29 janvier 2012. Ce forum est organisé dans le cadre de l’initiative « A l’Eau l’Afrique, A l’Eau le Monde » … Read more...
On Friday 3rd February 2012, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre celebrated the official opening of its office in Accra, Ghana. This was an historic event for IRC, as this is the first office IRC has established outside The Netherlands since its foundation in 1968. The office will be led... Read more...
Ghana’s SenseMaker ® results are now available! Triple-S Ghana led a questionnaire team to collect a total of 1,256 stories from water users and water professionals. Read the preliminary report to learn about trends in Ghana’s rural water sector. Read more...
Learning and knowledge management are important elements of a mature sector, which should not rely on ad hoc support, but become an integral part of sector capacity. 'Sector learning' is about working across institutional and professional boundaries. A learning sector develops as a result of a... Read more...
Le Prix Initiatives du FONDS SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT récompense des projets et des innovations qui contribuent à développer l’accès aux services de l’eau, de l’assainissement et de la gestion des déchets dans les pays en développement. Deux Prix, d’un montant de … Read more...
Resource Centres and their networks can play a vital role in documenting lessons and making information flow in the sector for governance and service delivery. IRC has worked with and supported WASH resource centre networks since the 1990s. The PSO programme helped IRC work with resource centre... Read more...
Dr. Babar Kabir explains that thanks to BRAC's WASH 1 Programme 25 million people have access to improved hygienic latrines. In this programme, which ran for 4,5 years and finished in April 2011, the focus was on hygiene. However, more time is needed to change behaviours, so in the WASH 2 Programme... Read more...
Qu’en est-il du secteur de l’AEPHA dans ce débat sur le changement climatique? Read more...
Le projet WASHCost s’est appliqué à collecter des données informant sur le coût à long terme des services d’assainissement d’un échantillon de six villages et trois secteurs urbains du pays. Cette publication présente les premiers résultats du traitement et de l’analyse de ces données. La section 2... Read more...
Le projet WASHCost s’est appliqué à collecter des données informant sur le coût à long terme des services d’assainissement d’un échantillon de six villages et trois secteurs urbains du pays. Cette publication présente les premiers résultats du traitement et de l’analyse de ces données. La section 2... Read more...
The costs presented in this document are the minimum costs of access to sanitation. They are inevitably less than the life-cycle costs of a sustainable sanitation service. Moreover, the unit cost calculated on the basis of household expenditures can by no means be considered as an estimate of the... Read more...
IRC has been a partner of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene-Resource Centre Network Nepal (WASH-RCNN) since 2003. The network started as an informal network and has been formally registered in 2011. This process of institutionalisation has also entailed clarifying the vision and aims of the network... Read more...
Photo essay describing the difficulties with sanitation during the rainy season in Myanmar. Many people who live in flood-prone areas like Nwew Ni Chaung village in Thabaung Township in the Ayeyarwady Delta area, experience great difficulties with sanitation. Photographer May Zin Thaw made the... Read more...
The first International workstream (IWS) learning retreat took place in May 2011 and was hosted by the IWS External Learning Facilitators (ELF) from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (IDS). Read more...
IRC is testing out FLOW in three districts in Ghana. FLOW helps the user assess whether or not facilities are functioning or are on the verge of disrepair. In this video IRC staff discusses the presentation given by Marieke Adank and Nicolas Dickinson which highlights the experiences and lessons... Read more...
A Kétomé, un village situé dans la commune de Sèmé-Podji à quelques kilomètres de la capitale économique du Bénin, jamais de leurs vies, les populations n’ont vu et bu de l’eau potable. Désabusées, elles sont descendues dans la rue pour … Read more...