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IRC has been an active member of Sanitation and Water for All Partnership since its beginning. Erma Uytewaal of IRC explains why she believes this partnership is important to improve the sustainability of water and sanitation services.
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Commissioner Eng Aaron Kabirizi discusses sub-county water boards as an approach for addressing operation and maintenance.
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Water For People adopted an approach of Everyone, Forever. This video presents the perspectives of the local stakeholders involved in that approach in the municipality of Chinda, Honduras. It is based on a study that IRC did of Water For People's approach there.
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Este video cuenta la historia del enfoque 'Cobertura Total, Para Siempre' (Everyone, Forever), adoptado por Water For People en la municipalidad de Chinda en Honduras. Water For People ha intentado de lograr una cobertura del 100% en el suministro de agua y saneamiento en esta municipalidad y ha trabajado en el fortalecimiento de capacidades para mantener la cobertura.
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Financing Post-Construction Support (direct support)", is a video documentary which explores various options and opportunities for post construction support for water and sanitation facilities in Ghana. It draws largely on efforts by two of IRC Ghana's programmes, the Triple-S and WASHCost projects in facilitating sector dialogue and innovations to addresses the situation.
This video was produced in collaboration with the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network.
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The first of two new short films about Self-supply made by the renowned local film-maker Abraham Haile, working for IRC in association with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and the Millennium Water Alliance. This film has a national focus and features the State Minister HE Kebede Gerba, amongst others, making a powerful case for Self-supply.
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This webinar, which was organised by IRC on 11 December 2013 focused on the current status of two tools developed by the WASHTech project: the technology Applicability Framework (TAF) and the Technology Introduction Process (TIP)
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This twenty minute feature film looks into the sustainability issues of rural and peri-urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and how lack of planning for operation and maintenance in the end lead to waste of investments.
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WASHTech aims to facilitate cost effective investments in technologies for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services.
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Sustaining water facilities in Ghana's rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don't have the money for it.
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The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has brought safe sanitation to millions of families. Now, as pit latrines start to fill up, it is seeking ways to turn the faecal matter into safe fertiliser and energy. Baba Kabir, director of the programme outlines the plan.
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What if resources from all projects in a district were brought together? What if in addition to constructing water systems we also planned and financed for their operation and maintenance? A story about a fictitious district in the developing world, and what happened to its water supply.
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The costs and benefits of hygiene promotion are difficult to measure. WASHCost and its partners compared cost data of different interventions in Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and India to come to an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of interventions.
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Vida Duti, leading the Triple-S project in Ghana, talks about the importance of monitoring water services to plan and direct investments. Triple-S Ghana has worked on functionality mapping using FLOW.
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Governments cannot leave rural communities with the full responsibility for the management of their water supplies. Communities need support. This video is made for decision makers, but contains many interesting issues for everyone concerned with rural water supply.
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Tamene Hailu (Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopia) talks about the inventory carried out to provide new data on water supply schemes in urban and rural areas, sanitation and hygiene practices of households, and the status of water supply and sanitation facilities at health institutions and schools.
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Paul Nyeko Ogiramoi explains how water supply and sanitation boards at local sub-county level can make community management work.
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Self-supply is a huge market. Tens of thousands of households in Ethiopia have already made their own investments in their private water supplies. MFIs can make a huge difference if they would support households with small loans to improve their family wells.
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WASHCost Mozambique managed to calculate the estimated total costs for building a traditional latrine. The cost data shows that families are massively contributing to improving public health. The data also shows that promotion of hygiene and sanitation is really worth the effort.
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The life-cycle cost approach (LCCA) bringing us closer to WASH services that last. This short animation explains what the life-cycle cost components are and how to measure service, taking into account the indicators of quantity, quality, accessibility and reliability
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