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Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
How combining Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and market-based approaches can help. Read more...
Unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change... Read more...
To meet the goal of universal access of water and sanitation services (Sustainable Development Goal 6) we need to change the way we do business. It calls for us to learn from different areas outside water.
Peter Laugharn, CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, takes us back to the times when he was working on the goal of 'education for all' - in the nineties in Mali,where he was working with Save the Children as deputy director of a field office. Times in which he learned the tough lessons of what it means to lack mandate, and the need to have a lon-term vision.
Lessons that are now being applied in Hilton's Safe Water Strategy its implementation with partners in districts like Asutifi-North in Ghana.
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This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
Read more...The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
'Not all problems in the health sector are solved, but appreciating that there is a system has supported us in how to do things.'
In this video, Dr Gilbert Buckle shares how applying a systems approach in the health sector and working on strengthening the building blocks that shape the system is helping to achieve the outcomes they want to see.
He made a call to those WASH professionals, wanting to address WASH in health care facilities: 'when you come to to hit me where I am, you need to understand 'my [health care] system' and you need to help me to use my system in the where it is, to achieve the objects of your various [WASH] system components. If not, we have a clash of systems.
Listen to Dr Gilbert Buckle and learn more about his work as public health physician and expert on health systems strengthening.
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This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
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Read more...Hygiene is both the first and the last defence against diseases due to climate change. Read more...
Listen to Barbara Schreiner keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12 March 2019. Read more...
In the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector there is not just one WASH system.
There are many systems. And they interact.
The physical system (the pumps, the pipes); the institutional systems, the political economy, and the social systems. Each of these sub-systems are complex in their own right. And working on these systems requires a sector that is able to talk across disciplines, and find a common language.
There is also the 'Shadow System': the corruption and lack of integrity that is integral to the sector and costs anywhere between 10-35% of the finances.
Barbara Schreiner and her team at WIN (Water Integrity Network) are responding to this 'Shadow System' by working on four areas: transparency, accountability, participation, and working on anti-corruption mechanisms at different levels. This to cement integrity, and keep out corruption in the sector.
Learn more from Barbara and her work as Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network (WIN).
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Keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
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Listen to IRC's Patrick Moriarty keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12 March 2019. Read more...
What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
IRC is delighted to announce that we are working together with Global Citizen for their upcoming festival in New York on Saturday 28 September 2019. Read more...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
3 December 2019 - for the very first time - the Netherlands will also celebrate the global giving movement. And IRC is helping make this happen. Read more...
Soon, everyone will have a chance at becoming a WASH systems master with this unique learning platform on WASH systems strengthening. Read more...
There is evidence of strengthened capacities for lobby and advocacy (L&A) and WASH service delivery impact in the six programme countries (India... Read more...
We are proud to announce that our Country Director for Ghana, Vida Duti has won the 2019 OFID Annual Award for Development for her exemplary dedication to delivering safe, reliable and affordable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to the people of Ghana, especially in Asutifi North... Read more...
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation? Read more...