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Eliminating open defecation is not good enough. Real health gains require a bigger step up the sanitation ladder. Read more...
Leverage is needed to create conditions for scale, say Dutch NGOs. Read more...
With 20 percent of the world's GDP and 36 percent of the global population located in severely water stressed areas, the growing demand and competition for freshwater will be one of the biggest global challenges we face. At the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting 2015, Wetlands... Read more...
Along with millions of others, at IRC we are following the refugee crisis unfolding at and beyond Europe's borders with heavy hearts. Our thoughts go out to all people who are involuntarily forced to move themselves, their families, their children out of unbearable situations. Read more...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the target of reaching universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. But can this target realistically be achieved in the most difficult of settings: fragile states? Read more...
Tuesday August 11, at 10:00 am EDT. Moving beyond reporting and turning data into action. Read more...
1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target. Read more...
With two prestigious humanitarian innovation fund awards and major organisations that collaborate, the humanitarian response platform KnowledgePoint can prepare to scale up in the future. Tim Kent, Project Manager for KnowledgePoint, looks back at a successful start. 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...
Safe drinking water and sanitation is a human right, but it's going to be costly. How serious are world leaders to reach everyone by 2030? And where will the money come from? Read more...
The Conference Financing for Development (13 – 16 July 2015) will make a strong call on the importance of increased domestic public finance towards funding the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
Project monitoring and government-led systems can be mutually beneficial if all actors communicate better and modify their organisational behaviours. Read more...
Over the last 25 years, a unique UN partnership has developed a robust monitoring mechanism that can support the goal of universal access. Read more...
Together the Netherlands and the World Bank can make a substantive contribution to reaching a joint vision; sustainable and equitable water and sanitation services for all by 2030. The World Bank sees the Netherlands as a leading knowledge provider in the water sector. Dutch expertise can... Read more...
Join for a three-part webinar series as we explore ways to move beyond just reporting and turn our data into action. Read more...
The new agenda for the future of water and sanitation, defined by the Sustainable Development Goals, aims at universal access for all by 2030. Achieving this mission will require a radical shift in how the water and sanitation sector operates. The main Dutch water and sanitation stakeholders urge... 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...
Share your thoughts with six leading experts on urban sanitation finance for households, cities and the national level. Read more...
Four leading international water, sanitation and hygiene organisations IRC, WaterAid, Aguaconsult, and Water For People join hands in the run-up to... Read more...
THE HAGUE - Four leading international water, sanitation and hygiene organisations IRC, Wateraid, Aguaconsult, and Water For People join hands in the run-up to the new Sustainable Development Goals. Today they presented a set of shared principles to achieve universal access to water and sanitation... Read more...