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The last of 4 videos on the lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project: 2013-2016.
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Third of 4 videos on the lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project: 2013-2016.
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Second of 4 videos on the lesson learnt during the SMARTerWASH project: 2013-2016.
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First of 4 videos on lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project: 2013-2016.
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Using an asset inventory tool to improve water services in South Ari woreda in Ethiopia.
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It is all about monitoring. Everyone wants to know - but who needs to know? and what do we need to know? Video developed as part of the UNICEF-IRC partnership 'Knowledge Management and Sector Learning in West and Central African Countries'. Script by Ton Schouten.
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On the 3rd of March 2016, a seminar was held at the Australian High Commission in London to present the main findings from the Community Water Plus project on support to community-managed rural water supplies in India. This video contains these presentations.
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On Thursday 4 December 2014, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Water Partnership, the secretariat of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), Simavi and IRC organised an informal networking event to stress for the inclusion of access to water and sanitation in schools, health care centres and at the workplace in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Video blog by Nicolas Dickinson, ICT and monitoring specialist, on the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana.
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In most countries in West Africa, involvement of local authorities has increased over the past years to ensure the provision of basic services, among them drinking water and sanitation. Municipalities are now in charge of planning, organizing, managing, regulating and monitoring. Especially around monitoring a lot of work still has to be done. What exactly is monitoring and evaluation? What are the benefits? Who is in charge of monitoring in municipalities? and what support do municipalities get in developing monitoring systems? This film tries to answer these questions by letting those involved in water and sanitation services in rural areas speak.
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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.
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Video on the Qualitative Information System (QIS), an innovative monitoring tool developed by IRC and now used in the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh.
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
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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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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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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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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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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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