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Improved governance, integrity and anti-corruption measures can win back US$ 75 billion every year. Read more...
Field testing is showing that mobile phones have an important role in water sanitation monitoring in Ethiopia. Read more...
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and WaterAid in West Africa are supporting the West Africa WASH Journalists Network. Read more...
Economic tools help us better understand handpump breakdown. Read more...
What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
Uncovering and understanding the real costs of water, sanitation and hygiene services by using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
A study commissioned by Plan International on the sustainability of CLTS programs in Africa revealed that 87% of the households still had a functioning latrine. Read more...
Goal: The adoption by the WASH sector of a service delivery approach. Desired outcome: By 2016, the dominant paradigm in use at the international level will be based on the delivery of services rather than the construction of infrastructure. Targets for water and sanitation will be expressed in... Read more...
Dans l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui, l’accès limité à l’information représente un défi de taille à l’amélioration des services d’eau et d’assainissement pour les communautés pauvres, ainsi que son maintien à long terme. Soutenues par des organisations de la société civile actives et dynamiques, ces... Read more...
Les principes de l'assainissement total à initiative communautaire sont étendus aux écoles et aux zones urbaines de huit pays africains. L’IRC contribuera au volet assainissement total à initiative du milieu scolaire (SLTS) dans un programme quinquennal plus élargi conduit par Plan Pays-Bas Read more...
The principles of community-led total sanitation are being extended to schools and urban areas in eight African countries.IRC will contribute to a school-led total sanitation (SLTS) component in a broader five-year programme led by Plan Netherlands. Read more...
Findings from a scoping literature review on handwashing and mental health in humanitarian crises. Read more...
The largest NGO in the world, BRAC headquartered in Bangladesh, applies its development aid concepts outside Bangladesh in ten countries around the world. The silver bullet? Building on the strength of each individual. An interview with Petra Costerman Boodt, BRAC International's Resident... Read more...
Learning and sharing between WASH sectors in West and Central Africa Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
IRC updated its ladder to measure effectiveness of hygiene interventions, which is breaking down hygiene practices according to categories, and that can be used to compare the "before" and "after" behaviour of a beneficiary, for a given intervention. Read more...
IRC a mis à jour son échelle de mesure d'efficacité des interventions d'hygiène, qui décompose les pratiques d'hygiène en catégories permettant de situer les comportements d'un bénéficiaire entre un "avant" et un "après" une intervention. Read more...
As stated in my last blog, sanitation is more than building a toilet. We are all aware that the MDG target for sanitation will not be reached. By end of 2014, 2.5 billion people did not have access to adequate sanitation which is about one in three of the world's population (WHO/UNICEF Joint... Read more...
Judging by the number of posts on Twitter, evidence for decision making seems to be a hot topic at the moment not only in the WASH sector but more broadly in the development realm. Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...