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India - fetching water from river in Chatrapur block, Ganjam District, Odisha state

How is India's fiscal policy influencing water and sanitation

Published on: 09/05/2019
A new briefing note tracks the state budget allocations for WASH for Bihar and Odisha.

For who is WASH systems strengthening - podcast

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Des femmes vulnérables privées d’accès à l’eau par l’insuffisance des investissements et du recouvrement des coûts d’exploitatio

Ne laisser personne pour compte : c’est évident, mais pas simple

Published on: 22/03/2019
L'intention est évidemment très juste, mais beaucoup de solutions actuelles ne marcheront pas. Nous devrons construire des systèmes nationaux et locaux solides, dédiés à l'universalisation.

Harriet Burungu, water user, Kabarole District, Uganda

Launching Kabarole’s WASH master plan: why ownership matters

Published on: 18/03/2019
In Uganda we follow and support where local government leads.

Collecting life-cycle cost data for WASH services : a guide for practitioners

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Mobilising finance for WASH : getting the foundations right

This working paper unpacks what is meant by the enabling environment for finance in WASH and presents real examples of how these bottlenecks are...
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Performance-based financing and capacity building to strengthen WASH systems in Mozambique : early findings

Early successes point towards the effectiveness of linking collaborative, flexible and adaptive capacity building with performance-based funding in...
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Solar power water unit manager

The ‘art’ in partnerships

Published on: 13/12/2018
Analysing partnerships and how they strengthen WASH systems.

Patrick Moriarty and Aboubakar Hema, mayor of Banfora (photo by Cabinet du Maire de Banfora)

Banfora shows committed political leadership

Published on: 15/10/2018
IRC-supported commune in Burkina Faso promises water and sanitation for everyone by 2030.

Banfora strategic plan launch ceremony

A model to follow for all communes in Burkina Faso

Published on: 12/10/2018
Mayor of Banfora launches his district's strategic plan to achieve SDG 6.

monitoring water points

Contextualising success and failure at three handpumps in Uganda

Published on: 28/09/2018
Case studies of the pay-as-you-fetch (PAYF) model in Kabarole District.

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Financing the sector in challenging countries

Published on: 28/09/2018
Fixing the leaks to attract commercial investment for sustainable urban water services in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Strengthening citizen’s oversight of water, sanitation and hygiene, and integrated water resources management in rural communities of Ghana

Management of WASH systems in Rural Communities: citizens can make a change.
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Survive or sink: tackling India's sanitation challenges

Published on: 13/09/2018
Banker Naina Lal Kidwai is our guest in the latest WASH Talk podcast.

An agenda for sanitation in India with Naina Lal Kidwai

What is needed to make India open defecation-free by 2019? Banker and former CEO of HSBC India Naina Lal Kidwai, who is also Founding Chair of the...
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Understanding the WASH system and its building blocks : building strong WASH systems for the SDGs

This working paper is one of a series that explains IRC's emerging praxis for working with and strengthening WASH systems.
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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awards IRC with a grant

Published on: 14/06/2018
The Hague, 14 June 2018 – The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 7,635,000 to the end of 2021 to IRC – a leading champion of universal access to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services. The grant funds will be used to strengthen governance systems of district-based programs and...

Nature-based solutions for water. Illustration for World Water Development Report 2018

Leveraging nature-based solutions for cost-effective water management

Published on: 14/03/2018
World Water Day WASH Talk podcast with IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty.

Firmin Hilaire Dongodaba, expert WASH

Forum sur l’eau au Burkina: IRC veillera à l’application des «recommandations»

Published on: 12/02/2018
Firmin Hilaire Dongobada, expert consultant WASH, a rassuré dans un entretien accordé à Wakat Séra que IRC qui a pris une part active pour la réussite du forum national de l'eau et de l'assainissement veillera à ce que les «recommandations» issues de la rencontre qui regroupe près de 500...

A checklist for effective adoption and implementation of the pay-as-you-fetch model.

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Woman collecting water at tap stand

Hit the road(map)

Published on: 25/01/2018
A new global guidance document on the District-Wide Approach.

Map of Sunyani in Ghana

District Assemblies lack leadership and ownership of water delivery interventions in Ghana

Published on: 28/12/2017
On the whole, stakeholder monitoring tends to be disjointed, with the diverse actors failing to coalesce their efforts around a common set of indicators. And there is a conspicuous lack of regulation of the rural water sector.

Agenda for change : a district level roadmap for universal access to sustainable WASH services

This document describes how the principles and practice of the global movement, Agenda for Change (A4C), can be applied at district level, following...
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Bedri Abdulahi Gedi, Head of Water Supply at Somali Regional Water Bureau, discusses merits of various data visualisation system

Real time monitoring of boreholes enables critical services to be sustained during the drought in Somali Region

Published on: 12/09/2017
With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response.

Banfora Town Hall, Burkina Faso

A race against time in Burkina Faso

Published on: 27/07/2017
Developing a collaborative strategic plan for municipal water services needs to focus on structural changes.

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