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The implementation guideline launched during world toilet day celebration (photo by: Tsegaye Yeshiwas)

Striving to implement robust market-based sanitation in Ethiopia

Published on: 21/06/2021
Ethiopia's Ministry of Health has, together with partners, developed a national market-based sanitation training manual to properly implement the guideline on the same topic.

Notes from the Global Coalition on MHM in 2019, notes by visualsensemaking.eu

New menstrual health definition to boost action

Published on: 25/05/2021
A collaboration of experts has drawn up a new definition on menstrual health to advance advocacy and coherent action.

Girl washing hands in Ghana

Moving beyond the artificial divide

Published on: 11/05/2021
How we can bring WASH and health back together

International Nurses Day

International Nurses Day

Published on: 10/05/2021
International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world every May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) commemorates this important day each year with the production and distribution of the International Nurses' Day (IND) resources and...

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Twelfth meeting of the [UNECE-WHO/Europe] Working Group on Water and Health, 14-15 April 2021

Published on: 06/04/2021
The Working Group on Water and Health will on 14- 15 April review the implementation of the protocol programme of work for the period 2020–2022, specifically considering the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the current and future programmes of work. The meeting will also discuss how to...

Healthcare workers exposure risk assessment : a survey among frontline workers in designated COVID-19 treatment centers in Ghana

Despite the high level of exposure to the COVID-19 virus among HCWs in the treatment centers, only 14.0% were at high risk of COVID-19 virus...
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Kabarole District Chairperson Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga (in yellow shirt) with the district team and IRC WASH partners

IRC launches new partnership with Kabarole District

Published on: 11/11/2020
New project on supporting WASH in healthcare facilities in the fight against COVID-19.

Kabarole District Chairperson Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga (in yellow shirt) with the district team and IRC WASH partners

IRC launches new partnership with Kabarole District to mitigate COVID-19 through WASH in healthcare facilities

Published on: 11/11/2020
Fort Portal, Kabarole, UGANDA. 11 November 2020 - IRC Uganda today launches a new project with Kabarole District Local Government to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 through strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in healthcare facilities.

Catherine Kemigabo, district health educator in Kabarole, Uganda

Investing in healthcare facilities saves lives: a video from Uganda

Published on: 04/11/2020
An appeal for more funding for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities in Uganda.

Delegates at the table during the handing over of materials against COVID-19 ceremony in Banfora, Burkina Faso

Stop COVID-19: equipment for Banfora district

Published on: 08/10/2020
Health centres, schools, public places and the population of Banfora in Burkina Faso have received health equipment and products in the fight against COVID-19 from IRC, ECG and CRS.

Handwashing device handed over in Banfora, Burkina Faso

Stop Covid-19 : du matériel pour la mairie de Banfora

Published on: 07/10/2020
Les centres de santé, les écoles, les lieux publics et la population de Banfora ont reçu du matériel et des produits sanitaires dans la lutte contre la maladie à coronavirus de l’IRC, ECG et CRS.

Female sanitation workers in India (photo R. Shiva)

Health and safety of sanitation workers during the pandemic

Published on: 22/09/2020
On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers face in India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Changes in the civic space for water, sanitation and sexual health rights in Kajiado County, Kenya

Key finding of this briefing note: Overall, citizens holding governments to account is dependent on effective civil society and media shaping the...
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Handwashing device Aga Khan Foundation

COVID-19 WASH response in two Indian states

Published on: 03/09/2020
The Aga Khan Foundation is organising WASH interventions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in response to the pandemic.

A camel and cattle on the banks of water body, Somali region, Ethiopia

Systems thinking for WASH in chronic crises: lessons from Ethiopia

Published on: 24/08/2020
Sharing lessons learnt from Somali region around systems thinking in WASH and collaboration between organisations in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.

Mayor and project manager sign the project agreement in Banfora

Banfora: Health centres in the spotlight

Published on: 21/07/2020
A new project SANIYA SO+ will be implemented in the 17 health centres of the commune of Banfora.

Participants of the SANIYA SO workshop

Banfora : Les centres de santé à l’honneur

Published on: 21/07/2020
Un nouveau projet, "SANIYA SO+", interviendra au niveau des 17 centres de santé de la commune de Banfora.

Testing sewage for early warnings about COVID-19 : thematic discussion synthesis

The challenges of developing an 'Indian' protocol to monitor COVID-19 in sewage.
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Traditional standpost in rural Romania

Don't forget the small ones - webinar 8 July 2020

Published on: 22/06/2020
The costs and financing of small-scale water and sanitation services in the pan-European region.

Waste disposal at healthcare facility in Kabarole, Uganda

Treating medical waste during COVID-19 in the Global South

Published on: 15/06/2020
Is hazardous medical waste sufficiently managed?

Webinar invitation Stakeholder Concerns Testing Sewage for COVID-19

Allaying stakeholder concerns when testing sewage for COVID-19

Published on: 12/06/2020
Report of a webinar organised by the SuSanA India chapter, WaterAid India, IRC and the India Sanitation Coalition.

Isaac Adita, principal enrolled nurse at healthcare facility in Foe

Five-star toilets help health centre set new standards of hygiene

Published on: 11/06/2020
Some of the cleanest and smartest toilets in the whole Bongo district are found at Foe Community Health and Planning Services (CHPS). This community health post serves more than 2,280 people in four communities across an area stretching up to the border with Burkina Faso.

Provision of personal protective equipment

Uganda: IRC supports COVID-19 response

Published on: 04/06/2020
In Kabarole District IRC's support is driven by strengthening WASH in healthcare facilities.

Dr Kodjo Mensah-Abrampa, director general of the NDPC Ghana

Drawing lessons from WASH success stories in Ghana

Published on: 02/06/2020
Effective WASH services are a source of resilience for communities under threat from COVID-19.

Asaloko primary school in Bongo district

Bongo District: Reversing the impact of fluoride

Published on: 02/06/2020
Bongo district was one of the three selected districts where successes and challenges in the provision of water and sanitation services were collected.

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