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Loss and damage is already hammering the water sector. Thanks but no thanks for the empty promises. Read more...
Comparing water utilities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and the United States reveals a gap between the full costs of service delivery and budgets of... Read more...
The impact of COVID-19 has been unprecedented on all areas of peoples lives globally, on a scale barely imagined only a few months ago. From the ever growing infection rates and death toll as the virus travelled around the world, to the light it shined on the huge disparities of impact on different... Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
This presentation provides a simplified definition and framework for blended finance, together with emerging themes and statistics for the water,... Read more...
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Read more...
Investigating whether donor restrictions affect the sustainability of water and sanitation interventions. Read more...
The King's speech marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year. This year he drew attention to the important position of the Netherlands in the international water sector. The budgets that were presented alongside the speech also reflect this, notably with a 6% increase for the budget for WASH... Read more...
The new Sustainable Development Goals require revolutionary change, as universal access to water and sanitation by 2030 is a revolutionary idea. But what brings us closer in achieving this? Bethel Terefe of IRC Ethiopia looked for answers at the third international conference on Financing For... Read more...
Traditionally we've looked to the three Ts to finance water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, with the focus on transfers and tariffs. But this leaves a large financing gap. One which, if we don't solve, will make us miss the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of universal access. Read more...
In the context of IRC's work on aid effectiveness and on official development assistance (ODA), a financial analysis of the national WASH programme implementation between 2007 and 2013 has been conducted in Burkina Faso. The following blog summarises the main findings and recommendations to better... Read more...
Governments, civil society and the private sector need to work together to make water and sanitation services available to everyone. IRC's event provided an opportunity to discuss how taxes can complement trade and tariffs and to learn from an innovative health insurance model in Africa. Read more...
In this blog, IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca discusses the financing of the post-2015 development goals. "A substantial part of funding for development should be sought elsewhere," she argues. Through public finance. Or tax, as we call it. Read more...
Public finance- money derived from taxation- is critical for achieving water, sanitation and hygiene for everyone forever. But how do we get governments to prioritise it? What should it be used for? And how can we get it flowing to local levels? WSUP, IRC and Trémolet Consulting will be exploring... Read more...
Understanding the difference between charity, venture philanthropy and impact investing is key to getting businesses and programmes funded Read more...
3rd Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) High Level Meeting (HLM) to be held Friday 11 April 2014. Read more...
How should WASH-related targets make it into the United Nation's post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals? Read more...
Progress has been made in recent years with implementing the aid effectiveness framework. Various studies show that the volume of development... Read more...
Although aid effectiveness in the WASH sector has improved in recent years, vigorous steps are needed to counter measures that can jeopardise... Read more...