The African water sector needs qualified staff in all disciplines, not just engineering. Read more...
The report provides an overarching recommendation for the development of national capacity development strategies that have high-level political buy-... Read more...
IRC has highlighted some useful lessons for the sector as the USAID West-Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme is drawing to a close. Read more...
This volume is a collection of ideas and solutions with potential, and also of issues and challenges raised by IRC Burkina Faso's team and actors in... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso has reviewed the performance of existing institutions and, in particular, their overarching regulatory framework in two... Read more...
This report focuses on defining the conditions for the establishment of an effective repair and maintenance system for hand pumps in the Sahel region. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso investigated the factors that explain why boreholes with hand pumps in the Sahel region break down so often. Read more...
One of the main conditions for providing potable water services is that the service provider must be able to guarantee that the water is safe for consumption. But what happens when you live in an area where such services are not within reach? Can you be sure that the water that is available is safe... Read more...
Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
Read more...OUAGADOUGOU, 1st June 2014 – IRC is starting a Euro 3.3 million project co-funded by European Union in Burkina Faso. The aim of the investment is to strengthen sustainable sanitation and hygiene services for 100,000 people in six rural municipalities in Burkina Faso over the next four years. Read more...
Report assessing level of compliance with regulations in eight communes of the Sahel region. Read more...
Au Burkina Faso depuis 2006, la gestion des services publics d'eau potable en milieux rural et semi-urbain a été transférée aux municipalités. Dans cette vidéo, les acteurs locaux s'expriment sur la gestion les services publics d'eau potable en milieu rural. Read more...
Responsabilisées pour apporter une assistance technique aux communes dans l’approvisionnement en eau, les directions régionales peinent à jouer leur rôle d’où la nécessité de les former. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
Initié par Triple-S et l’ensemble du secteur, un cadre communal de monitoring des services publics d’eau potable, a été développé au cours du premier semestre 2013. En début juillet, il a été présenté dans les communes d’Arbinda et de Gorgadji où il sera expérimenté jusqu’en septembre 2014. Read more...
Convaincu par le projet Triple-S, la direction régionale de l’eau, des aménagements hydrauliques et de l’assainissement (DREAHA) s’est engagée auprès d’IRC et des communes d’Arbinda et de Gorgadji pour la mise en place d’un cadre communal de monitoring des services publics d’eau potable. Read more...
Rural and semi-urban "communes", or municipalities, need a framework to help them monitor public water services. The sector has identified the creation of such a framework as one of the priority actions for 2013 in the context of the National Water and Sanitation Programme (PNAEPA). The task is... Read more...
Public-private partnerships potentially harness market incentives to improve service delivery and leverage private capital for investment costs. Read more...