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The power of partnerships. Report of an end-of-programme workshop and a WASH Debate. Read more...
Take a systems approach to capacity building involving government, communities, the private sector, CSOs, educational institutes and women. Read more...
The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
WASH businesses that are attempting to enter both water and sanitation markets worldwide are frequently not what you'd call "business as usual". Many of them are social enterprises started by passionate people who put people before profit and exist primarily to meet a specific challenge. Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive? Read more...
On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus... Read more...
This report presents an overall analysis of the current Ethiopian private sector landscape in water and sanitation, with case study chapters... Read more...
Uttam Majundar is a successful Jalabandu (handpump mechanic) in Digambarpur (West Bengal, India). But now he risks becoming a victim of his own success. Following a day in his life explains why. Read more...
Is aid and trade the answer to "Dead Aid"? Is it just tied aid in disguise? Does it make sense in the water sanitation and hygiene sector? IRC invited a group of stakeholders from the Dutch WASH sector to The Hague on 17 September 2014 to discuss all this and more. Join the discussion! Read more...
The Dutch government has introduced a trade-based approach to development. Is this good or bad for the WASH sector? Read more...
Sagar is an island at the mouth of the river Ganges where it meets the Bay of Bengal. Every year in January, about half a million pilgrims visit the island to worship at the holy Ganges. The hundreds of mobile toilet units standing on the empty festival terrain during the rest of the year are... Read more...
Public-private partnerships potentially harness market incentives to improve service delivery and leverage private capital for investment costs. Read more...
This briefing note focuses on the sector wide approach (SWAp), highlighting the problems a SWAp aims to address, the benefits of a SWAp, key... Read more...
Small-scale private providers increase water supply coverage and reduce time spent on fetching water, often providing a vital service, particularly for low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the absence of a coherent policy framework with effective tariff enforcement and water... Read more...