IRC supports institutions that promise to improve and professionalise the delivery and management of WASH services. District Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) are an example of such institutions.
This working paper seeks to contribute to a larger analysis on whether community-based management is still a feasible option for service delivery in...
This paper proposes a framework of elements that need to be in place for continued handpump functioning, and then turns this into a diagnostic device...
The District Strategy for achieving full water coverage (2017 to 2025) provides the framework for the implementation of water activities and services...
Demand in communities for hand pumps is high and the technology does satisfy most water demands but Water Management Committees (WMCs) are often not...
Founding a new state. How do you organise and plan for water and sanitation in a country which lacks most revenues, infrastructure or a private sector and is shattered by conflict? South Sudan: the youngest country in the world is balancing between a promising future and fiasco.
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.
Uttam Majundar is een succesvolle Jalabandu, een mecanicien die handpompen repareert, in Digambarpur, West-Bengal, India. Maar hij dreigt slachtoffer te worden van zijn eigen succes. Stef Smits, programma officer van IRC, schetst een dag uit het leven van Uttam en laat zien waarom te goed je werk...
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.
