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USAID-funded water point in Afar, Ethiopia

Can right-sized digital solutions help the vulnerable?

Published on: 18/05/2020
Water supply for all: How can digital solutions help increase access for vulnerable populations? Lessons from Tanzania and Ethiopia.

IRC aide à former plus de 3 700 acteurs de l'eau, à l'horizon 2022, au Burkina Faso

Plus de 3 700 acteurs de l’eau formés à l’horizon 2022

Published on: 03/09/2019
IRC aide à former plus de 3 700 acteurs de l'eau, à l'horizon 2022, au Burkina Faso.

Mobile phone prepayment for household water connections in Ghana

Though mobile money penetration is high (72%), using mobile money for water bill payments is not top of mind and would require additional awareness...
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Positioning WASH services within a systems framework and demonstrating achievement of open defecation free status at scale : an example from the Indian State of Bihar

Adopting a systems approach of WASH services, which included strengthening institutional systems and service delivery models, while also introducing...
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Real-time monitoring for improved water services in the Ethiopian Lowlands

A briefing note on the use of cellular and satellite connected sensors for near-time monitoring of rural water services in Ethiopia.
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Blue Drinks The Hague participants

Blue Drinks, The Hague Edition IV. Theme: Digital Water

Published on: 03/10/2018
A networking event on 9 October 2018 for water and environmental professionals in The Hague.

Blue Drinks The Hague participants

Blue Drinks, The Hague Edition IV. Theme: Digital Water

Published on: 03/10/2018
Join the Canadian Water Network in the Netherlands for Blue Drinks, 9 October 2018 at Cortenaer in The Hague.

An example of using GIS to depict water point functionality was produced by IRC-Uganda

Geographical Information Systems in development

Published on: 03/09/2018
IRC Uganda is using GIS to map water point functionality.

SMARTerWASH Meeting in Ghana, 2015

Monitoring is “the soul of the water system”

Published on: 12/04/2018
A series of four videos explore the work and lessons learnt during the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana.

Girl and boy fetching water at handpump

Technological innovations are on exponential curves; but are WASH measurement methods stuck in time?

Published on: 07/02/2018
Innovations can revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development - if we rise responsibly to the challenge of measuring their impact.

Monitoring with smart phone in Ethiopia

Measuring what we are managing

Published on: 21/08/2017
Robust monitoring is needed to track progress towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal for water.

RapidWASH data collection in Timor-Leste

A new mobile-based tool measures sustainability of water and sanitation services

Published on: 24/07/2017
ICT helps ensure that rural water supply and sanitation systems keep working.

Smart solutions with SMARTerWASH : stories of the project and its successes

The story of the SmarterWASH project in Ghana; the achievements, challenges, experiences, lessons learned over the years.
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Stainless steel GARV Toilets and Mayank Midha

Indestructible and smart: public toilet innovation in India

Published on: 06/10/2016
An interview with sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha.

IRC trends analysis, 2016–2025

An analysis of 11 global and regional trends in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector.
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World Bank in Viet Nam ICT for WASH

Using technology to improve the cost-efficiency of results verification in PforR projects

Published on: 09/06/2016
How the World Bank's Water Global Practice and Innovation Labs are partnering to get practical operational solutions.

Ethiopia monitoring at district level

Big expectations, building on doubtful assumptions

Published on: 26/05/2016
There are big expectations for national sector monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems both from the side of governments and from the side of Development Partners (DPs). National scale data collection using ICT in some African countries have set the tone: it is now possible to have data from...

Making All Voirce Count/ WaterAid

How can ICT initiatives be designed to improve rural water supply?

Published on: 13/05/2016
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) must take local context and existing reporting systems into account.

How can ICT initiatives be designed to improve rural water supply?

Using information and communication technologies (ICTs) can make rural water supply more efficient, but this only works well when ICT design takes...
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Using FLOW on mobile phones in Ghana

Better nationwide monitoring of rural WASH services in Ghana

Published on: 07/04/2016
The SMARTerWASH initiative in Ghana upgrades ICT tools for continuous monitoring.

Failure and the future

What are the challenges with Water Point Mapping? and what lessons can be learned from the failures? What about the future of Water Point Mapping?...
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SIBS : rural water supply monitoring in Timor Leste

Presentation on the Water and Sanitation Information System initiative in Timor Leste.
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SNV-world m4w system

Testing the waters: ICT reporting for water supply services

Published on: 18/08/2015
Over the last 12 months, WaterAid, Itad and IRC have conducted desk-based research to better understand the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of ICT-based reporting to improve rural water supply sustainability.

Photo: small town water supply

Following the database trail in Tigray

Published on: 03/08/2015
Tigray is a fabulous region to visit. A great base for visiting some of the finest tourism sites in Ethiopia. We were looking for something else: databases. More specifically we went to Tigray to find out how the region is making efforts to monitor the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene...

Testing the waters : a qualitative comparative analysis of the factors affecting success in rendering water services sustainable based on ICT reporting

This study examines eight initiatives that are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to monitor and report on water supply services...
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