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Destination 2030

Press Release: Announcing Destination 2030

Leading water and sanitation NGOs, IRC and Water ...
IRC Mali team and office

IRC opens office in Mali

IRC opens a formal office in capital Bamako and...
Voices for Water

[Media release] Raising your voice for water

Media release - Watershed empowering citizens...
Kabarole District Chairperson Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga (in yellow shirt) with the district team and IRC WASH partners

IRC launches new partnership with Kabarole District to mitigate COVID-19 through WASH in healthcare facilities

Fort Portal, Kabarole, UGANDA. 11 November 2020...
WFP

IRC and Water For People accelerate path to SDG6 through formation of strategic partnership

Long-term advocates of sustainable water,...
Duti receives the award from Indonesia’s Minister of Finance, HE Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Photo:OFID Multimedia

Vida Duti, Country Director of IRC Ghana wins the 2019 OFID Annual Award for Development

The Hague, 19 July 2019 – IRC proudly announces...
Propeller campaign

IRC launches Propeller campaign

IRC launches new campaign to promote systems...
CNHF logo

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awards IRC with a grant

The Hague, 14 June 2018 – The Conrad N. Hilton...
Osprey Foundation

IRC receives grant from the Osprey Foundation

The Hague, 28 March 2018 – The Osprey Foundation...
Putting water in vessels in near home in rural Ghana

Launch of the Asutifi North District Based Full WASH Coverage Initiative

A master plan has been drawn up to guide Asutifi...
Patrick's Poo

This year we’re talking poo not just toilets

Turning World Toilet Day into World Sanitation...
Joseph Kofi Adda

Driving the transformational agenda towards WASH delivery in Ghana

Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources,...
Staff from IRC and DGIS celebrate signing new programmatic funding

Dutch government renews partnership with IRC in support of the Sustainable Development Goal for water and sanitation

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs will...
Ghana - women at water point

Launch of the District WASH Full Coverage Start-up Initiative in Asutifi North

IRC and the Safe Water Network are piloting an...
snapshot of SC4Ghana website

New website promotes urban sanitation innovation in Ghana

The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana (SC4Gh) team...
Vida Duti

IRC hails the Ministry for Sanitation and Water Resources and urges funding prioritisation

In Ghana, water and sanitation services are...

Quick guides to what we do

Community meeting

IRC's approach

Delivering good water, sanitation and hygiene services not just to a few people for a while but to everyone forever requires a fundamental shift in...
Governments discussing at SWA HLM 2012

Institutions

We support national governments to lead development processes and direct funding to where it is most effective and needed.
Screenshot of money

Finance

When we stop asking how much it costs to dig a well and start asking how much it costs to provide access to drinking water forever, everything...
Handwashing in Uganda

Hygiene

No matter how good the infrastructure is, if it isn't hygienically used and operated, people's lives and health will not be improved.
Man in Ethiopia

Sanitation

Around the world, fewer than one in three people have access to adequate sanitation. We want to change that. See below for some of our sanitation...
Ethiopia, Petterik Wiggers, Panos Pictures

Water security

Water security is about ensuring that people have sustainable access to unpolluted water to meet their needs.
Monitoring

Monitoring

It's not just what you know, it's what you do with that knowledge that matters. Doing monitoring better and making it count is our focus.

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