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Alana is the Head of Research and Advocacy at the Equality Collective, a community-based law clinic in the Eastern Cape. Alana’s first 10 years in the water sector were at the Mvula Trust where she provided policy and strategic support to provincial offices and to national government to advance local government-led rural water and sanitation in the newly democratic South Africa. Over the next 10 years, she led IRC’s Africa Regional programme, working with public, private and civil society actors in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to strengthen water, sanitation and governance and accountability systems. As Director of Research and Advocacy at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI), she led a research and advocacy team that undertook legal, policy and social research and advocacy to amplify the socio-economic rights realisation agendas of marginalised people and groups. At End Water Poverty, hosted by WaterAid, she led a global civil society coalition of more than 150 civil society organisations in 80 countries that employed a range of intersecting strategies to realise their rights to safe water and sanitation and a safe environment. Until May 2024 year, she led research training at Human Rights Watch, equipping researchers to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for violations of humanitarian and international law.
Alana’s advisory experience includes serving on the AMCOW International Task Force; the UN Water Expert Group; the Africa Water Justice Network’s interim steering committee; the Water Integrity Network’s Supervisory Board; Accountability for Water’s global advisory group; Sanitation and Water for All’s grants committee; the steering committee for the Public Interest Law Gathering (2017-2020); the ICESCR CSO Coalition, and others.
Southern Africa is in its most severe drought in 35 years, 18 million people need humanitarian assistance in the region. We as users have a role to play, and it isn't all about consuming less. Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Social Justice thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Alana Potter talks about the role of equity in WASH service delivery and WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
This facilitator's guide is one of the three components of the WASH Governance Training Programme, which aims to help capacity builders, facilitators... Read more...
Poster showing main research questions around an appropriate technology for pit emptying in Zimbabwe. Read more...
Successful Sludge Enterprises in Small Urban Centres in Zimbabwe selected as a poster presentation at WASH FUTURES 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. Read more...
This publication has been produced by IRC as part of its independent monitoring and knowledge management services to the ONEWASH Plus programme. The... Read more...
Inspiring workshop on the Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2016/7 surveys and network building between Southern African countries. Read more...
Physical works are progressing well in most small towns. Major challenges are water sources in Abomsa, and acquisition of land for sludge drying beds... Read more...
Monitoring African commitments on sanitation and hygiene will be based on reflective dialogue processes and improved accountability informed by... Read more...
6th Africa Water Week (AWW-6), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Achieving Universal Access and Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation for All, Sub theme 1 Convenor: IRC Co-convenors: Africa Joint WASH learning initiative members: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Rural Water... Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
This document presents the Gender Strategy Action Plan of Mozambique's Water Supply Assets and Investment Fund (FIPAG). Read more...
IRC helps develop action plan to integrate gender justice in urban water supply. Read more...
Innovation of sanitation master planning within the ONEWASH Plus programme in Ethiopia. Read more...
Hygiene and sanitation expert Alana Potter shares from IRC's experience the 7 key ingredients for making hygiene promotion sustainable. Read more...
Handwashing with soap is still the most effective way to reduce the spread of diarrheal infections. Today on Global handwashing day, hygiene and sanitation expert Alana Potter talks about key messages from IRC's experience how to make hygiene promotion work. Read more...
Eliminating open defecation is not good enough. Real health gains require a bigger step up the sanitation ladder. Read more...
Mark Radin and Alana Potter reflect on the steps to achieving sanitation commitments. Read more...
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