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The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is a global multi-stakeholder partnership and membership organisation that works to save lives and improve livelihoods. Read more...
As a Pan African Inter-governmental Agency, Water and Sanitation for Africa complements regional efforts by providing continental leadership in the development of innovative and sustainable approaches, evidence-based policy advice, and advocacy services in the provision of water, sanitation and... Read more...
Piers Cross is the topic leader of Symposium Topic 6: Building coherence in global-regional -national WASH monitoring. Read more...
This keynote paper will highlight four main trends in monitoring for sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
In an interview with Pan European Networks, IRC Senior Sanitation Specialist Joep Verhagen explains how sanitation efforts need to begin to increase their focus on sustainability. Read more...
Providing toilets to the poorest may be "dear to the hearts of many non-profits, aid agencies and governments" but if you want to involve business you have to start with the better-off families first. Read more...
Ce document de travail présente les résultats de l’application de la méthodologie d’évaluation du rapport coûts/efficacité d’une intervention d’hygiène sur deux sites au Burkina Faso : Ladiana et Ouahabou. L’intervention ciblée ici porte sur une combinaison d’ateliers villageois et de visites à... Read more...
Perveen Rahman, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday 13 March 2013. Read more...
Our colleagues have been busy blogging about sanitation and hygiene services that last. Read about IRC's work with BRAC to monitor progress of the largest sanitation programme in the world: the BRAC WASH II programme in Bangladesh. The component on menstrual hygiene management is delivering strong... Read more...
This session is lead by Catarina de Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation, and will take place on Tuesday 9 April 2013 from 18:00 – 19:00 hrs. Read more...
The sanitation service delivery approach is a conceptual approach that focuses on sanitary practices by all during the entire life-cycle of the human excreta disposal. The services relate to the first promotion of Open Defecation Free (ODF) and toilets to the final end disposal or productive use of... Read more...
March 8th, is International Women's Day. A new SNV video, shares stories about women’s participation, leadership and their changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video is from the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme, a partnership... Read more...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) estimate that the number of people without safe water and sanitation is much higher than previously thought. If you add actual service levels and the unreliability of some of the data to the equation the picture may be even bleaker. Read more...
Developing the capacities of the staff (governmental and non-government) as well as the private sector is important part of governance. The full range of capacities needs to cover the full cycle of sanitation services. Read more...
Transparency (openness) and integrity (honesty) aim to counteract corruption. The Oxford Dictionary defines corrupt as having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. Read more...
Governing non-sewered sanitation mostly involves local governments and government services, community or consumer organisations, the local private sector and NGOs. Read more...
Governance is the umbrella term for the processes by which decisions are made and implemented. It is the result of interactions, relationships and networks in and between the different sectors -government, public sector, private sector and civil society- for ensuring optimal services. Work to... Read more...
Examples of participatory assessment of baseline conditions and monitoring of progress come from Nepal and Mozambique, among others. They give community organisations and households valuable insights on how they are doing and what improvement is still needed. Read more...
An innovative methodology is the Methodology for Participatory Assessment or MPA. The MPA was originally developed by IRC and WSP to quantify qualitative performance evaluations of community-managed water services and sanitation services. The methodology uses scenario scales on which representative... Read more...
Monitoring is the collection, organisation and use of information about the current situation in comparison with the planned or expected situation. The information can be used for checking and control, for problem solving and planning and as management tool by community members, staff and programme... Read more...