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Briefing note with key findings on the comparison of the financial costs of a range of traditional and improved latrines and the quality of service... Read more...
This paper concludes that there is chronic underfunding of rural water services, to meet the costs required to provide and sustain a basic level of... Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
Indian sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha one year later. Read more...
An animation illustrating the relationship between life-cycle costs and the service delivered. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...
A vision of 100% access to water and sanitation is a powerful idea that many political leaders have won elections with. A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone and learn about the importance of political buy-in and leadership.
Read more...This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in... Read more...
This annual report reflects on 2018, the second year of our refreshed strategy, which focuses on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 6... Read more...
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months. Read more...
This report marks the end of IRC's 2012-2016 business plan with a reflection on the successful end of programme evaluation, Read more...
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
Will Africa's fastest growing economy and continental success story Ghana succeed in providing everyone with a toilet? A major clean city contest, the Sanitation Challenge, will be launched today on World Toilet Day and should change Ghana's sanitation nightmare over the coming years. Read more...
This annual report 2016-2020 presents the work the Watershed empowering citizens programme has done with its partners and its achievements since its... Read more...
Showing the first steps of implementing IRC's Strategy Framework 2017-2030 to build resilient WASH systems to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 6... Read more...
An overview of the challenges Watershed - empowering citizens will address. Read more...
Detailed information about IRC's progress made in 2015. Read more...