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Girl drinking water in Fort Portal, Uganda

Partnership for WASH Systems in Africa

UNICEF, IRC and Water For People have launched a partnership for strengthening national water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems.

Strengthening mutual accountability in partnerships for WASH. Pt 1: Literature review and...

2021
Key elements, success factors, partnership...
Women fetching water in Sahel

Tackling systemic inequalities in water and sanitation

Systematic or systemic inequalities are grounded in our mindsets; in the way, we think, in the way we plan, in the way we see people, and in the way...

Strong WASH systems: playing the hub role

2020
A WASH system is made up of different people and...

Strong WASH systems: the importance of master planning

2020
Achieving the sustainable development goal for...

Socially inclusive WASH programming : a mapping study

2018
There is a gap between what organisations have...
Three man at water treatment plant in Honduras

How a systems approach can help us deliver SDG 6

Why are we headed for failure and what can we do about it? IRC's proof of concept galvanises and empowers local political leadership.
hand pump in Kabarole district

CLOSE-OUT USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership Kabarole District

The USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership implemented by IRC Uganda in collaboration...
hand pump in Kabarole district

Driving the change together: transforming local WASH systems

Kabarole District and IRC Uganda wrap up a successful Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) learning...
WASH CSO representatives at the NDP3 dialogue in Kampala, April 2021

Uganda WASH civil society embrace new national development plan

Civil society working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Uganda together with...

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Strengthening mutual accountability in partnerships for WASH. Pt 1: Literature review and learning from other sectors

Key elements, success factors, partnership processes, conducive national contexts and types of global partnerships, which can support an effective...
Biblio info

Women fetching water in Sahel

Tackling systemic inequalities in water and sanitation

Published on: 10/12/2020
Systematic or systemic inequalities are grounded in our mindsets; in the way, we think, in the way we plan, in the way we see people, and in the way we interpret the rights to water and sanitation.

Strong WASH systems: playing the hub role

A WASH system is made up of different people and organisations, so it's important that they all work well together.
Biblio info

Strong WASH systems: the importance of master planning

Achieving the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation is hard to imagine. The first step is to work out the steps needed to get there.
Biblio info

Socially inclusive WASH programming : a mapping study

There is a gap between what organisations have formulated in their strategies and programmatic approaches regarding social inclusion and the actual...
Biblio info

Three man at water treatment plant in Honduras

How a systems approach can help us deliver SDG 6

Published on: 16/04/2022
Why are we headed for failure and what can we do about it? IRC's proof of concept galvanises and empowers local political leadership.

hand pump in Kabarole district

CLOSE-OUT USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership Kabarole District

Published on: 02/12/2021
The USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership implemented by IRC Uganda in collaboration with Kabarole District Local Government will come to its end on 31 December 2021. The objective of this project was to improve the quality and sustainability of WASH service delivery through...

hand pump in Kabarole district

Driving the change together: transforming local WASH systems

Published on: 02/12/2021
Kabarole District and IRC Uganda wrap up a successful Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) learning partnership , a collaborative project that has harnessed decentralised systems and structures to strengthen rural water supply and small-town sanitation services.

WASH CSO representatives at the NDP3 dialogue in Kampala, April 2021

Uganda WASH civil society embrace new national development plan

Published on: 04/05/2021
Civil society working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Uganda together with the Ministry of Water and Environment are engaging to re-align sector implementation to the new programmatic approach of the National Development Plan III.

Civil society influence in drinking water, sanitation and water resources budgets : four pathways for change

How CSOs in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and elsewhere have collaborated to understand funding flows and key moments for budget decision-making, and...
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Handpump in Ethiopia

Partnership development in an alliance for increased impact

Published on: 29/10/2020
Documenting the processes used to develop strong partnerships among NGOs and sharing some lessons learned about partnership development in an alliance in Ethiopia.

Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Unicef et IRC appuient les «faiseurs de loi»

Published on: 11/10/2019
Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Solar power water unit manager

The ‘art’ in partnerships

Published on: 13/12/2018
Analysing partnerships and how they strengthen WASH systems.

Global review of national accountability mechanisms for SDG6 : executive summary

A summary of a study on country-level accountability mechanisms in 25 countries for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
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Map of Sunyani in Ghana

District Assemblies lack leadership and ownership of water delivery interventions in Ghana

Published on: 28/12/2017
On the whole, stakeholder monitoring tends to be disjointed, with the diverse actors failing to coalesce their efforts around a common set of indicators. And there is a conspicuous lack of regulation of the rural water sector.

Hilton foundation grantees meeting in The Hague

Don’t we all know exactly what “full coverage” means?

Published on: 02/05/2017
In fact, it turns out we don't.

Jane Nabuunya IRC Uganda - Francis Muzinguzi of WaterAid Uganda - Cate Nimanya Water For People Uganda

Working together to finance improved WASH services in Uganda

Published on: 12/07/2016
District partnerships are at the heart of the WASH Agenda for Change (WA4C).

TOC exercise in Kampala Uganda

Mapping activities for the Uganda Watershed team

Published on: 12/07/2016
In this first year of the Watershed programme the country teams define their goals in a Theory of Change workshop.

Juste Nansi IRC Burkina Faso

Paying the piper: why the things that donors are prepared to fund in WASH need to change

Published on: 02/09/2015
IRC's Chief Executive Patrick Moriarty reflects on the highlights from the annual water conference in Stockholm.

Signing of partnership IRC - AMCOW

IRC and AMCOW formalise partnership to strengthen WASH in Africa

Published on: 27/08/2015
STOCKHOLM – Today at Stockholm World Water Week 2015, IRC and the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) signed a partnership agreeing to work together on the delivery of lasting WASH services in Africa.

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