Regional WASH Officer | IRC Uganda
Mary Ayoreka Concepta is the Regional WASH Officer of IRC Uganda. She is based at IRC’s office in Fort Portal City. Mary Concepta holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health Science from Makerere University - School of Public Health and is completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Manchester.
She has previously worked at Nansana Municipal Council and AMREF Health Africa and has 3 years’ experience in implementing and managing Environmental Health projects including Community Based Research, WASH integrated with communicable disease prevention and control, health and nutrition education and other public health support services.
More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level. Read more...
Key elements, success factors, partnership processes, conducive national contexts and types of global partnerships, which can support an effective... Read more...
What is currently working well and what needs to be urgently addressed for meaningful reporting on implementation and progress towards SDG 6 targets. Read more...
The potential for corruption in water licensing is an important issue. Preventive actions to reduce the risk of corruption are explored. Read more...
Que faut-il faire pour aller au-delà de la cartographie des installations WASH et utiliser réellement les données pour la prise de décision et la... Read more...
What does it take to successfully go beyond mapping WASH facilities to actually using data for national-level decision making and accountability? Why... Read more...
Recommendations for hand hygiene in public places and institutions; hand hygiene in the local governance process; hand hygiene promotion strategy;... Read more...
No examples of mutual accountability were found in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru and Somalia. Where active, multi-stakeholder platforms in the... Read more...
An in-depth inclusive analysis on country-level accountability mechanisms towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on clean water and... Read more...
A podcast about empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets. Read more...
This brief presents the lessons learnt and advocacy messages from this e-discussion for influencing sector discourse on this topic and ensuring that... Read more...
An interview with IRC's Head International Programme Catarina Fonseca on increasing water sector financing by improving governance. Read more...
An introduction to ethical fundraising for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) organisations. Read more...
This paper addresses five fundamental questions: (i) what is social accountability; (ii) why is it important; (iii) what are its core features; (iv)... Read more...
The diversion of focus from water towards sanitation, comes at the cost of cutting down allocations in rural water or 'adjusting' funds from one... Read more...
Despite investing US$ 486 million in rural water supply in Tanzania between 2007-2014, coverage is stagnating and even declining. Who is to blame? Read more...
This global review explores the strengths and weaknesses of integrity in the water sector. It provides examples of innovative programmes and tools... Read more...
This book provides guidance on how to prevent corruption in local government and deal with it when it occurs. It includes a section on local public... Read more...