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Pilot in Sikonge DC (Sept. 2019) Credit: DIME World Bank

Community management: policy failure or lost in translation?

Published on: 14/01/2020
Is community management of water supply still feasible in Tanzania?

Collective action session at UNC

What are collective action approaches anyway?

Published on: 07/01/2020
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success," Henry Ford famously said.

Eng, Joseph Oriono Eyatu, Uganda, Hon. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Ghana, Patrick Moriarty

Money follows politics

Published on: 17/12/2019
What does government leadership in the African water and sanitation sector really mean? Perspectives from a technocrat, a politician and IRC's CEO.

Woman next to hand pump in Ethiopia

How to achieve the SDGs: a roadmap for strengthening WASH systems

Published on: 13/12/2019
Reflections on developing a series of position papers which help to chart a path forward in Ethiopia.

Sanitation workers in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Health and safety of sanitation workers on the line

Published on: 12/12/2019
Sanitation workers deserve safe working conditions through legal protection and operational guidelines.

Central African Republic - Water for Good

Can you strengthen WASH systems in fragile states?

Published on: 03/12/2019
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate.

A set of toilets under renovation at one of the rural health facilities in Nyeri County

Advocating for improved public investments for WASH in HCFs in Kenya

Published on: 02/12/2019
Despite official plans many of Kenya’s public healthcare facilities lack basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services particularly for persons with a disability.

Uganda GT women with signs

A deep dive into WASH in health care facilities and schools

Published on: 28/11/2019
This #GivingTuesday we give more information on the global status, what IRC does and could do.

Woman helps other woman lifting her water bucket in Agravi community Ghana

If you want to know where you are going – look where you’ve been

Published on: 27/11/2019
In Asutifi North district in Ghana, the District Assembly is making a bold attempt to achieve district-wide full coverage by 2030.

Man fishing in Bangladesh (credits: Watershed)

Give a man a fish ….

Published on: 27/11/2019
Why is an organisation that believes in systems strengthening joining #GivingTuesday? Because effective philanthropy can be a force for lasting change.

Giving Tuesday map

IRC Pass notes: #GivingTuesday

Published on: 19/11/2019
So what are we talking about? #GivingTuesday

Upturned tree caused by flooding in Ethiopia

Poor sanitation is the shittiest consequence of climate change

Published on: 14/11/2019
Why sanitation matters in the climate discourse.

Loo with a view, Trawden, Lancashire, UK

Stop being a neo-liberal and embrace the sanitation system

Published on: 13/11/2019
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source.

Children in Asutufi North, Ghana

We are over-simplifying the global toilet issue

Published on: 13/11/2019
A call for safely managed sanitation.

Daniel Karanja at the WSSCC booth during the Sanitation Conference in Kenya

Menstrual health and hygiene at the Kenya Sanitation Conference

Published on: 13/11/2019
Special children's sessions on menstrual hygiene during Sanitation Conference show need for education and information on the topic.

USAID Transform WASH Programme: Latrine slab construction in Shashego woreda, SNNPR, Ethiopia

We are not on track to achieve SDG 6.2

Published on: 12/11/2019
How combining Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and market-based approaches can help.

Ladies monitoring sanitation in Indonesian village

Where there is a will, there is a way

Published on: 11/11/2019
On World Toilet Day, I am sharing a positive story to inspire everyone.

Machinjiri health centre, Zomba, Malawi (photo WRA Malawi)

Advocating for WASH in healthcare facilities in Malawi

Published on: 11/11/2019
White Ribbon Alliance aims for a 30% WASH access improvement at healthcare facilities in Chitipa, Zomba and Dowa, Malawi.

People around a water point

Payment by Results: An end or a means to an end?

Published on: 05/11/2019
In recent years, donors have been making greater use of Payment by Results (PbR) approaches to fund development programmes.

IRC group photo in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The UNC Water and Health Conference through the lens of IRC

Published on: 31/10/2019
Where science meets policy, and practice.

Ms. Naima Akter is facilitating an awareness session on WASH. Photo by: A. Mannan

Awareness and engagement of community enhances WASH in local HCF

Published on: 22/10/2019
Joint efforts at various levels are being made in Bangladesh to improve WASH in health care facilities.

COO Joost Kooijmans explains the finer points of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) to Aquafed’s President Mamadou Dia and Execu

Bringing the private sector to the table

Published on: 16/10/2019
The question is not if, but how they should be involved.

Handwashing stand

Why hygiene matters in the climate change discourse

Published on: 14/10/2019
Hygiene is both the first and the last defence against diseases due to climate change.

Raising the flag for the #NyumbaNiChoo campaign

#NyumbaNiChoo campaign: Having a toilet is modern and cool

Published on: 03/10/2019
Tanzania's recent toilet campaign gets high-level politicians on board. Why?

Madam Gloria (Chair WATSAN committee Dominase) in discussion with Rhoda Gyampoh (Community Development Officer - Tarkwa-Nsuaem

“They are drinking our shit”

Published on: 03/10/2019
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment.

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