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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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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.

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.

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.
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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.
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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.

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...
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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.

Minister of Foreign Affairs -DGIS at FFD

Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all: Domestic Resource Mobilization and Innovative Finance

Published on: 20/08/2015
A summary of the side-event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development July 15th 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session highlighted how domestic resource mobilization is critical to the achievement of goal 6, and to fill the substantial gap between current levels of...

Jo Smet

Drivers for change: the human factor

Published on: 22/07/2015
You must know about the culture and beliefs of communities before co-creating solutions with them.

Vida Duti

Philanthropy and the Post-2015 Development Agenda for Ghana

Published on: 08/07/2015
IRC Ghana Country Director Vida Duti will be one of the speakers at the philanthropy platform in Accra.

WASH Sustainability Forum 2015 Ghana

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Executives visit Grantees and Government Partners in Ghana

Published on: 06/07/2015
Important visit for the Community Water & Sanitation Agency (CWSA) and IRC in Ghana: IRC is convening a meeting on the 8th July with Hilton Grantees in Ghana for a team of Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Executives who will be in Ghana this week for the Philanthropic Conference.

An agenda for change : achieving universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030 : principles paper

Four leading international water, sanitation and hygiene organisations IRC, WaterAid, Aguaconsult, and Water For People join hands in the run-up to...
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PA Rokeya Hossein (cluster meeting) Derboalia Village

Strong governments crucial for universal water and sanitation by 2030, leading organisations say

Published on: 17/06/2015
THE HAGUE - Four leading international water, sanitation and hygiene organisations IRC, Wateraid, Aguaconsult, and Water For People join hands in the run-up to the new Sustainable Development Goals. Today they presented a set of shared principles to achieve universal access to water and sanitation...

South Sudan, by Ryan Schweitzer

South Sudan: Development in the youngest country in the world

Published on: 12/05/2015
Founding a new state. How do you organise and plan for water and sanitation in a country which lacks most revenues, infrastructure or a private sector and is shattered by conflict? South Sudan: the youngest country in the world is balancing between a promising future and fiasco.

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WASH IT! alliantie: een van de 25 strategische partners van het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken

Published on: 09/02/2015
DEN HAAG, 4 februari 2015 - WASH IT! kondigt trots aan dat zij geselecteerd is als een van de 25 strategische partners van het Nederlandse Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken voor 2016-2020.

Jane Nabunnya Mulumba

Let 2015 be the year that we reach the national targets for water and sanitation coverage

Published on: 30/01/2015
IRC country director of Uganda, Jane Nabunnya Mulumba reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: building on the legacy of Triple-S and reaching the national targets for water and sanitation coverage

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L’impact de la dissolution des conseils municipaux sur la mise en œuvre des projets d’AEPA au Burkina Faso

Published on: 22/01/2015
Dans la foulée des changements sociopolitiques d'octobre 2014 au Burkina Faso, les conseils municipaux de l'ensemble des communes du pays ont été dissous. En perdant leurs partenaires clés, les ONG et associations conduisant des projets d'eau potable et d'assainissement doivent désormais trouver de...

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