Former Programme Officer| Change hub
Vera is a Master of Arts: Journalism and post graduate in Electronic Information Management (Moscow State University and The Robert Gordon University). In the past 15 years, she has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, strategic communications, publications, knowledge and information management, communication technologies and children's issues. Prior to joining IRC, she worked for the Bernard van Leer Foundation in Den Haag (the Netherlands) that works to improve opportunities for children up to age 8 who are growing up in socially and economically difficult circumstances; Save the children – Redd Barna(Uganda) and Commercial Television (STV-Uganda).
Vera was appointed organisational trust person in 2016.
The theme this year is: Why Waste Water? Join in the celebrations with IRC! Read more...
There is an appetite to move away from business as usual among grant-makers and grantees alike, and there are good examples of people and institutions that are breaking the mpld. Osprey Foundation and IRC will be sharing lessons learned on their partnership in an informal semi-structured... Read more...
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,... Read more...
World Water Day is an international observance and an opportunity to learn more about water related issues, be inspired to tell others and take action to make a difference. World Water Day dates back to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development where an international... Read more...
FSM4: 4th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference, Chennai, India, 19-22 Feb 2017 Worldwide, 2.7 billion people rely on onsite sanitation. Yet, there is still typically no management system in place to deal with the resulting faecal sludge (e.g. septage and pit latrine sludge). The result... Read more...
Presenting the Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Sustainability Index and how the WASH Alliance International using them. Read more...
This presentation provides an update on the policy rules on sustainability for new project proposals for the Fund Sustainable Water of the... Read more...
The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana is an innovation programme to motivate Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to develop their... Read more...
While allocations to India's national sanitation campaign to eradicate open defecation have increased considerably, budget tracking shows that... Read more...
After eight years of working in Ghana, IRC has achieved a paradigm shift in monitoring and delivery of WASH services. Read more...
Slippage is an expected aspect of behaviour change-oriented sanitation and hygiene interventions, especially those at scale, and not a sign of... Read more...
Ghana Youth Environment Network (GYEM), in collaboration with WaterAid Ghana and the Resource Centre Network (RCN) invites you to the learning and sharing meeting on the above theme. GYEM will lead the discussion with support from WaterAid Ghana under the advocacy for WASH Based Climate Adaptation... Read more...
Business models and breakthrough approaches to solve India's rural sanitation challenges. Read more...
IRC and Plan would like to invite you to "What's New Pussycat? How Tom Jones inspired better learning and collaboration in WASH", a roundtable discussion on learning in the WASH sector. As a sector, we are trapped in our old ways of distilling and sharing knowledge – essentially a sector-wide... Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
The Netherlands has been at the forefront of ensuring sustainability of WASH services. The IOB policy review in 2012 made it clear that a significant percentage of water and sanitation facilities that were developed with Dutch support, provided poor quality services and had limited sustainability... Read more...
The culture of neglecting maintenance needs to change. Read more...
The governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea thank the Dutch government for its support Read more...
The Toolkit aims to assist anyone involved or planning to work in school hygiene, sanitation, and water. It describes basic principles, strategies... Read more...