Systematic or systemic inequalities are grounded in our mindsets; in the way, we think, in the way we plan, in the way we see people, and in the way we interpret the rights to water and sanitation.
This volume is a collection of ideas and solutions with potential, and also of issues and challenges raised by IRC Burkina Faso's team and actors in...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso.
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally...
One of the main conditions for providing potable water services is that the service provider must be able to guarantee that the water is safe for consumption. But what happens when you live in an area where such services are not within reach? Can you be sure that the water that is available is safe...
On the 14th and 15th of October 2014, a workshop on gender and female participation in water service provision was organized by CARE International and IRC Burkina Faso in Dori, Burkina Faso, as part of the USAID-funded West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH) programme...
IRC asked a private operator if it was possible to improve the service provided by hand-pump at current tariff. The answer is yes but the scale at which hand pumps are managed must change.
Rural and semi-urban "communes", or municipalities, need a framework to help them monitor public water services. The sector has identified the creation of such a framework as one of the priority actions for 2013 in the context of the National Water and Sanitation Programme (PNAEPA). The task is...
A new IRC- Triple-S/GLOWS/WA-WASH research paper analyses the absolute and relative value of each cost component of a water service (capital investment, operating costs, rehabilitation cost, support costs) and looks into each component's cost drivers.
