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Sanitation campaign in action in Tanzania

How Tanzanians got back into building toilets

Published on: 15/12/2021
Lessons from the National Sanitation Campaign.

Celebrating women’s leadership in WASH during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Inspirational stories about how ordinary women in India and Kenya have converted the challenges posed by COVID-19 into an opportunity to promote good...
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Including persons with disabilities in the improvement of WASH services

Strategies and steps towards inclusion of persons with disabilities in the improvement of water and sanitation services in Ethiopia.
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Should sanitation be taxed?

Ensuring that sanitation products and services remain affordable through favorable tax policies for consumers and manufacturers is important for...
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Sanitation products promotion

Should sanitation be taxed?

Published on: 29/09/2019
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale.

Abeba conducting door – to –door promotion for one of Transform WASH’s improved sanitation product - SATO pan

Abeba’s passion for change helps her sell sanitation solutions to communities

Published on: 16/06/2018
Half of the sales agents in the USAID Transform WASH project in Ethiopia are women.

Toilet products for market-based sanitation in Ethiopia

100,000 toilets sold and counting!

Published on: 12/05/2022
Partnering with Ethiopia's private sector for market-based sanitation.

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Tenkodogo celebrates International Handwashing & World Toilet Day

Published on: 17/11/2021
IRC organises a public event to raise awareness on handwashing with soap and to stop open defecation.

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Stop open defecation. Own a household latrine now. Let's play our part in a Covid-19 era.

Published on: 17/11/2021
Theme of Ghana's World Toilet Day commemoration.

RWSN webinar series

RWSN webinar series: Achieving sustainable WASH at scale - Lessons from an NGO-led Payment by Results Programme

Published on: 05/11/2020
On November 10 th , 14:30 CET ( 13:30 GMT and 16:30 EAT ), representatives from FCDO , SNV , Tearfund , Plan International UK , and Itad will discuss learning under three headings: Payment-by-Results, sustainability, and reaching the vulnerable .

Kabarole chairman R. Rwabuhinga cuts ribbon to open sanitation facility at Bwanika Health Centre II

Bwanika Health Centre II gets much needed sanitation facility

Published on: 08/10/2020
Thanks to IRC Uganda's cost-saving initiative Bwanika Health Centre II in Kabarole District now has a sanitation facility.

Omanhene Nana Agyei Twum II

Omanhene welcomes new water supply for Wamahinso

Published on: 30/05/2020
The Omanhene (chief) of Wamahinso in Asutifi North, Ghana, has welcomed the new water supply in his town and called for more households to build toilets.

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Wassa East: Six communities become open defecation free

Published on: 29/05/2020
In 2015, Wassa East had very low levels of basic sanitation. But when the District Assembly launched a campaign to promote household latrines it became a victim of its own success.

Madam Gloria (Chair WATSAN committee Dominase) in discussion with Rhoda Gyampoh (Community Development Officer - Tarkwa-Nsuaem

“They are drinking our shit”

Published on: 03/10/2019
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment.

Household using an improved latrine at Shashogo

How to create demand for sanitation products and services?

Published on: 29/09/2019
Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of sanitation facilities remains a big challenge and a serious health concern.

TIP matrix for cost model “CapEx subsidized”

This document illustrates a practical example on the use of the Technology Introduction Process (TIP) tool for the cost model "CapEx subsidised" for...
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Flow diagram generated by the Faecal Waste Flow Calculator

Toilets ≠ improved sanitation

Published on: 28/08/2018
A case study on the use of IRC's faecal waste calculator tool in a Delhi slum.

Assessing the sanitation situation in a resettlement colony in Delhi : using IRC's Faecal Waste Flow Calculator in India

While household toilets are necessary, they alone are not sufficient for improved sanitation.
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Patrick's poo

This year we’re talking poo not just toilets

Published on: 16/11/2017
Turning World Toilet Day into World Sanitation Systems Day

Patrick's Poo

This year we’re talking poo not just toilets

Published on: 15/11/2017
Turning World Toilet Day into World Sanitation Systems Day

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