Former IRC Programme Officer
A lack of sanitation access in the community is a significant risk factor for anaemia and child growth stunting, but not for incidence of diarrhoea... Read more...
This is how the BRAC WASH programme (2006-2015) is achieving lasting behaviour change and transforming hygiene, sanitation and water services with half the rural population of Bangladesh, using an equity-based approach and sustained intensive interaction. Read more...
Monday marked the start of the 5th WASH Sustainability Forum. Here's my take on discussions on tools for making investments in sanitation have lasting results. Read more...
Menstruation is an integral and normal part of human existence, but a taboo subject and neglected in most WASH programmes. It's time to better understand challenges around menstrual hygiene management and to act. Read more...
This paper examines the status, role and scope of knowledge management and networking in accelerating sanitation achievements in India and advocates... Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...
How do we choose the most effective technologies in the delivery of water supply, sanitation and hygiene services? Read more...
A workshop, 'New Approaches to Scaling Up WASH Technologies', was organised at this year's UNC's Water and Health conference to introduce novel approaches to scaling up WASH technologies. One of these approaches is the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF). Read more...
The problem-based approach of Guided Learning on Water and Sanitation (GLoWS) offers WASHCOs practical support and potential solutions in a new way. Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
Research and learning are set to become important elements in national planning and monitoring of sanitation and water services. That is, at least, the aim of the Research and Learning (R&L) constituency of the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership (SWA). The R&L constituency will... Read more...
On the 11th of September 2012, IRC debated the pros and cons of sanitation subsidies. These are a common tool used to motivate households to construct toilets. This seems an obvious response: many who lack access to sanitation are extremely poor and the potential public health benefits of universal... Read more...