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Two sides of sanitation: rubbish and cleanliness. Cambodia/India

Sanitation and health: what do we want to know?

Published on: 01/08/2018
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us.

An Analysis of Determinants of Under-5 Mortality across Countries: Defining Priorities to Achieve Targets in Sustainable Develop

Weekly WASH Graph: Under-five Mortality Progress or Failure?

Published on: 25/06/2018
Why we should care about how we display our data.

Webinar: Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change – lessons across WASH, health, and education

Webinar: Systems approaches to hygiene behavior change – lessons across WASH, health, and education

Published on: 30/05/2018
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts.

Azadi Teaching Hospital, Iraq

Inclusive WASH away from home in the Kurdish region of Iraq

Published on: 07/04/2017
World Vision promotes and provides adapted water and sanitation facilities for the disabled.

Water and Society 2017

Published on: 02/12/2016
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,...

Looking at WASH in non-household settings : WASH away from the home information guide

An information guide to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in schools, health care facilities, the workplace, orphanages, prisons, refugee...
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Water and Health Conference 2016

Join IRC at the Water and Health Conference 2016

Published on: 04/10/2016
Several inspiring IRC sessions and side events.

School tap

National Department of Health launches hand hygiene behaviour change strategy

Published on: 14/07/2016
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change.

WASH services in small towns : baseline report for a quasi-randomised control trial to assess impacts of the One WaSH Plus programme

Data was collected on household income, diarrhoeal disease occurrence, water service provision, and sanitation and hygiene services and practices at...
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Handwashing demonstration

Health care facilities need adequate water, sanitation and hygiene

Published on: 11/12/2015
A successful pilot in Ethiopia deserves to be scaled up for health care centres in other parts of the country.

The need for water and toilets at schools, health centres, the work place and prisons

This fact sheet explains why institutional water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) should be part of the post-2015 development agenda. It includes...
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Mohamuni Anglo Pali High School, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Petra Brussee

Beating the drum for institutional WASH

Published on: 19/10/2015
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons.

MKAJI programme Tanzania

Upgrading water supply in primary health facilities

Published on: 14/10/2015
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region.

#safeHANDS WHO campaign poster

Health workers must have #safeHANDS

Published on: 05/05/2015
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands.

Traditional Birth Attendants practice hand washing

The alarming lack of water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities

Published on: 03/04/2015
A third of health care facilities in the developing world don't even have water and soap for handwashing. A shameful situation that can be overcome with simple solutions and global action.

Community waterpoint

When access to improved water points does not lead to use: Understanding consumption patterns in Burkina Faso

Published on: 06/02/2015
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally...

community water cans

Que faire quand l'acces a l'eau potable ne garantit pas son usage par les menages?

Published on: 06/02/2015
La corrélation directe entre l’accès à l’eau potable et le niveau de santé, de nutrition et autres indicateurs de développement est aujourd’hui largement reconnue. Sur cette base, le secteur conclut souvent qu’il est nécessaire d’allouer davantage d’investissements aux infrastructures (en milieu...

Maternity ward, Gazipur, Bangladesh

Campaigning for better WASH in health care facilities

Published on: 19/01/2015
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda.

girl pearl earring Mauritshuis

Spotlight on post-2015 development goals

Published on: 02/12/2014
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda.

Key websites and resources on institutional WASH

Key websites and background documents on institutional WASH: WASH in schools; health centres; WASH at the work place; and WASH in prisons.
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Bill Gates Oneworld meeting in The Hague

Great talk Bill – but sanitation work is as important as vaccine development!

Published on: 13/11/2014
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague.

Lunch meeting with Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC

The Bangladesh Paradox: exceptional health and sanitation advances despite poverty

Published on: 01/08/2014
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC on the Bangladesh public health miracle, aid or trade, arsenic, floating latrines and the post-2015 development agenda.

Syrian Refugee Camp

WASH services critical for refugees worldwide

Published on: 15/07/2014
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon.

4,500 children will today from water-related diseases

The elusive health impact of WASH

Published on: 17/06/2014
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation. Is that actually true and do we really need to prove that water and sanitation interventions have a health impact?

IRCwash

Water and sanitation services delivery should be at the heart of climate change adaptation

Published on: 15/05/2014
In this article John Butterworth explains why better access to water and sanitation will pay dividends in helping the most vulnerable people adapt to climate change. He argues that providing water and sanitation services for everyone builds resilience, and should be key part of the climate change...

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