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Bulandina Tatu demonstrates the making of reusable menstrual pads by women in Batani village, Kwale County, Kenya

Integrating, collaborating and building capacity for menstrual hygiene management

Published on: 23/05/2019
What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries learn from Kenya's successful approach to improve menstrual health management?

Grants Awarded for WASH in Healthcare Facility Advocacy

Expanding the reach of health advocates to improve WASH in health

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

System dynamics modelling as a tool for assessing rural water sustainability

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Global review of national accountability mechanisms for SDG6

An in-depth inclusive analysis on country-level accountability mechanisms towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on clean water and...
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A policy proposal for integrating WASH and water resources management in the Kajiado Water Policy 2018

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Social inclusion and gender for sustainability in WRM & WASH at grassroots level – Kajiado County experience

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National accountability mechanisms for SDG 6 in Kenya

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Finance for water utilities

This podcast discusses how to finance water utilities when traditional sources of capital dry up.
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Washing hands in Ethiopia

WASH Talk podcast on attracting commercial finance to the water sector

Published on: 22/02/2018
How do you finance water utilities when traditional sources of capital dry up?

Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH project. Foto: Mélanie Carrasco/IRC

Uniek huwelijk: pleitbezorging voor water en sanitaire voorzieningen gaat verbond aan met natuurbehoud

Published on: 12/10/2017
Watershed heeft een geïntegreerde aanpak om SDG6 te behalen.

Kenyan women collecting water at standpipe - Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH project

Newly wedded: lobbying for water and sanitation services while sustaining nature

Published on: 19/09/2017
The Watershed partnership's integrated approach to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.

Menstrual health

Podcast featuring Virginia Roaf, Neville Okwaro and Radha Paudel, who discuss how to tackle the taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene at the global...
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Max Foundation-IRC Event logo

Phase out strategies in the WASH sector

Published on: 04/04/2017
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends.

Watershed meeting November 2016

Empowering citizens: challenges and successes starting Watershed

Published on: 30/11/2016
A reflection on the challenges and successes during the inception phase of Watershed - empowering citizens.

Watershed - empowering citizens

Watershed – looking ahead

Published on: 12/10/2016
In the first nine months of the strategic partnership Watershed – empowering citizens context analysis and stakeholder and factor analyses have been carried out. These analyses will give direction to the partnership's activities for the coming months.

Achieving SDG 6 through empowering civil society organisations

An overview of the challenges Watershed - empowering citizens will address.
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AWW 2016 session

“Support Africa to drive her own WASH destiny” – Hon. Mwai Kibaki, UNESCO Special Envoy for Water in Africa

Published on: 20/07/2016
Africa's governments should "put resolute actions in favour of water and should confront the immediate challenges of scarcity of safe and clean water." a plea by Hon. Kibaki at the opening of the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

IRC Event March 2016

Reaching universal coverage

Published on: 13/04/2016
Are government-led and private sector approaches mutually exclusive?

Talking toilet

Accessibility of toilets by people with a disability: if only toilets could talk…

Published on: 21/03/2016
A group of gifted local performers with different disabilities made us realise that going to the toilet is not as easy for everyone as you might think.

school children

Creating better schools and happier students - IRC and Football for Water

Published on: 21/03/2016
On 17 March, IRC made a key presentation on factors that enhance and hinder effective WASH in school programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. This was for a Kenyan delegation from Nakuru who were in the Netherlands for the Football for Water programme.

Entrance to the district administration of Basedth district, Cambodia

Transferring WASH mandates to the lower levels: developing soft skills without hard cash

Published on: 17/03/2016
On the third day of the regional learning event we reflected on the field visits and discussed what we learned.

Simple direct pit latrine in Cambodia

Toilets and bathtubs: basic sanitation facilities?

Published on: 17/03/2016
During a field visit we observed some seriously big and fancy toilets in a rural village.

Official opening of the learning event by the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Rural Development in Cambodia

Thinking beyond the finish line: sustainable sanitation services for all

Published on: 14/03/2016
Today we were told that the Siem Reap (or Angkor Wat) half marathon has a clear finish line, but that it is unlikely that anyone of us will reach that mile stone.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC sign WASH IT! partnership agreement

WASH IT! Strategic Partnership signed

Published on: 20/11/2015
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC sign WASH IT! partnership agreement

WASH IT! Strategic Partnership signed

Published on: 20/11/2015
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo partner up to increase sustainability of water, sanitation and hygiene services.

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