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Children in Asutufi North, Ghana

We are over-simplifying the global toilet issue

Published on: 13/11/2019
A call for safely managed sanitation.

Sanitation and hygiene sector trends

Unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change...
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Systems strengthening: lessons from the health sector

Listen to the keynote of Dr Gilbert Buckle, delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium and learn more about his work as public health...
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A framework for targeting water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in pastoralist populations in the Afar region of Ethiopia

An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches.
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Afar region

A framework for improving pastoralist WASH interventions

Published on: 27/09/2019
IRC collaborated with partners to develop a new approach to assess WASH risks in marginal populations in Ethiopia.

Full chain sanitation services in small and medium towns

Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity...
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Hygiene promotion and WASH systems strengthening - podcast

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Grants Awarded for WASH in Healthcare Facility Advocacy

Expanding the reach of health advocates to improve WASH in HCFs

Published on: 07/03/2019
Grants awarded for WASH in healthcare facility advocacy

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...

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