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During my time in Malawi I learned a lot about the challenges of rural safe water access, and about the challenges of addressing those challenges. I left believing we still have a lot to learn about how change happens, and how to support processes of improvement. This post is to share where I'm... Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...
There are many technologies that can be used to improve WASH services in developing countries. But what works where? How much will it cost, will the system last? And how are services going to be maintained? IRC proudly presents its four new tools to tackle these questions. Read more...
Video illustrating the challenge facing technology to provide sustainable water services. Read more...
The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a comprehensive assessment of sustainability indicators and considers the perspectives of technology users, producers and those introducing a technology. Read more...
The TIP gives guidance for countries on how to develop country-based technology validation and introduction guidelines and how to apply them so that... Read more...
Last week it was World Water Day 2014 , with the topic of "water and energy". I see obvious issues coming by on the water-energy nexus (which by the way is one of those development sector buzz words that I start disliking more every day. I hope the next buzz word is a bit more, uh, sparkling), such... Read more...
If it is possible to move in a few years from an iPod to an iPhone or and iPad, why are we in the water sector still struggling with the handpump? When can we expect the iPump 2.0? Did Steve Jobs die too early to invent this? As the naked truth about poor levels of functionality of hand pumps... Read more...
The WASHTech project in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda is in its second year of implementation. The key activities of 2012 are to conduct a technology assessment by using the “Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)” currently under development and to document changes resulting from stakeholder... Read more...
This short video, produced by the WASHTech project, illustrates the challenge of technology in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. 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...
The WASHTech project may be over but the importance of choosing the right technology remains. Read more...
Elder Joe is the proud secretary of a water committee managing a handpump on the outskirts of Odumase town in Ghana. But the committee would rather manage a different type of system. Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...