Peru :: IRC

Technicians in Honduras checking water quality

With 5 years of change, looking 10 years into the future

Published on: 12/01/2022

Stef Smits' in-depth review of the JMP 2021 data on the progress made in 15 countries and discussing the implications towards 2030. Read more...

Strengthening mutual accountability in partnerships for WASH. Pt 2: Summary of six country case studies

Published on: 18/08/2021

More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level. Read more...

Climate change water resources and WASH working paper IRC and Water For People

Climate change, water resources and WASH systems

Published on: 20/07/2021

WASH system strengthening is climate action and WASH must be a core component of climate financing and adaptation strategies. Read more...

Water For People market system development update

Published on: 17/11/2020

Despite reduced funding for market systems development (MSD) in sanitation, Water For People (WFP) has been able to grow and expand its approach. Read more...

Water & sanitation : how to make public investment work : a handbook for finance ministers

Published on: 03/09/2020

A call to action for ministers of finance, with inspirational case studies and forward-looking sector perspectives. It is part of an initiative by... Read more...

Assessing mutual accountability to strengthen national WASH systems and achieve the SDG targets for water and sanitation

Published on: 24/08/2022

No examples of mutual accountability were found in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru and Somalia. Where active, multi-stakeholder platforms in the... Read more...

Costing improved water supply systems for low-income communities : a practical manual

Published on: 16/12/2015

This manual provides practical guidance to facilitate and standardise the implementation of social life-cycle costing to "improved" drinking-water... Read more...

Empowering women in irrigation management: the case of the gender pilot plan in Peru

Microfinance as a potential cataylst for improved sanitation

Published on: 15/01/2014

Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest. Read more...

Tapping the market : opportunities for domestic investments in sanitation for the poor

Peru: case studies in sanitation microfinance

Endowments, entitlements and capabilities : what urban social movements offer to poverty reduction

SWITCH in the city : putting urban water management to the test

Published on: 22/11/2012

A tale of 12 cities. Which concerns and hopes do city planners, water sector specialists and researchers have for the future. Google scholar Read more...

Domestic private sector participation in Peru : sanitation markets at the bottom of the pyramid : a win-win scenario for government, the private sec...

Senegal: behavioral determinants of handwashing with soap - emergent learning

Published on: 26/03/2012

Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Learning Note found that beliefs and ease of access to soap and water were correlated with handwashing with soap behaviors for given proxy measures among mothers and caretakers in Peru and Senegal. Read more...

The ethno-politics of water security : contestations of ethnicity and gender in strategies to control water in the Andes of Peru

The power of primary schools to change and sustain handwashing with soap among children : the cases of Vietnam and Peru : global scaling up handwashing project

“Does help help?” is the wrong question

Published on: 12/12/2011

I have argued at times for the need for post-construction support to rural water supply, and so have various publications from IRC and others over the past decade. However, there has been critique to this, stating that there is little evidence that shows that such help helps improving rural water... Read more...

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