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8th Five Year Plan, July 2020 - June 2025 : promoting prosperity and fostering inclusiveness

2020
The first steps to bring Bangladesh closer to...

Effective targeting of water supply subsidies

2020
This Research Review provides an overview of...
Sanitation facility of a hardcore poor family, Ramgati Bangladesh

Two new strategies for the WASH sector in Bangladesh

A pro-poor strategy has been approved and a new national strategy is on its way.

Pro-poor strategy for water and sanitation sector in Bangladesh

2020
Hardcore poor households need to get 100%...
Handwashing instructions in India

What’s at stake? WASH in times of COVID-19 in India

Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India.
Female sanitation workers in India (photo R. Shiva)

Health and safety of sanitation workers during the pandemic

On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers...
Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/REX (10614307d)

Poverty kills

Every now and again the rich world has its nose rubbed in the true meaning of poverty. The coronavirus pandemic is but the latest example. We need to...
Cartoon of Burkinabè asking their president for water during the pandemic (cartoon by André Jules Nikiema)

COVID-19 and rural water crisis: putting pressure on Burkina Government

IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis.
Rural village in Kabarole district, Uganda

Vulnerable people have difficulty accessing WASH services

Vulnerable groups live a dog’s life – a feature article in Uganda’s Saturday Vision.

Investing in global prospects : for the world, for the Netherlands : policy document on foreign...

2018
The policy document shows how the government is...

Sanitation facility of a hardcore poor family, Ramgati Bangladesh

Two new strategies for the WASH sector in Bangladesh

Published on: 16/11/2020
A pro-poor strategy has been approved and a new national strategy is on its way.

Handwashing instructions in India

What’s at stake? WASH in times of COVID-19 in India

Published on: 22/10/2020
Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India.

Female sanitation workers in India (photo R. Shiva)

Health and safety of sanitation workers during the pandemic

Published on: 22/09/2020
On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers face in India during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/REX (10614307d)

Poverty kills

Published on: 20/04/2020
Every now and again the rich world has its nose rubbed in the true meaning of poverty. The coronavirus pandemic is but the latest example. We need to make sure it's the last.

Cartoon of Burkinabè asking their president for water during the pandemic (cartoon by André Jules Nikiema)

COVID-19 and rural water crisis: putting pressure on Burkina Government

Published on: 20/04/2020
IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis.

Rural village in Kabarole district, Uganda

Vulnerable people have difficulty accessing WASH services

Published on: 03/12/2019
Vulnerable groups live a dog’s life – a feature article in Uganda’s Saturday Vision.

Women in Bangladesh queuing for water

IRC partners with Global Citizen

Published on: 16/09/2019
IRC is delighted to announce that we are working together with Global Citizen for their upcoming festival in New York on Saturday 28 September 2019.

Finance assessment of the water sector in Ethiopia

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Gender and social inclusion workshop by Watershed

Recommendations for social inclusion in the Dutch WASH strategy

Published on: 21/08/2019
Watershed report with recommendations on social inclusion for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs' WASH strategy 2016-2030.

Social inclusion in the WASH strategy 2016-2030 of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs : a guiding document

A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production.
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Watershed annual report 2018

There is evidence of strengthened capacities for lobby and advocacy (L&A) and WASH service delivery impact in the six programme countries (India...
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Two elephants

The invisible elephant at the bottom of the pyramid

Published on: 25/06/2019
What can civil society do to achieve the SDGs?

Women carrying water in Wamahinso, Asutifi North District, Ghana

Leaving no one behind is easy to say, but hard to do

Published on: 14/05/2018
Many current approaches won't work. We must build strong national and local systems dedicated to universality.

Participants at IRC WASH Debaite: Leaving no one behind

Leaving no one behind

Published on: 02/05/2018
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate.

Leaving no one behind in practice : a case study from WASH programmes in Asutifi North District, Ghana

The district's unserved have been mapped and the dilemmas identified that need to be overcome to ensure that no one is left behind.
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Financing WASH : how to increase funds for the sector while reducing inequalities : position paper for the Sanitation and Water for All Finance Ministers Meeting

Ministers of Finance should increase funding for the enabling environment, make more use of micro and blended finance, and address the inequities in...
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty banner

De l’humiliation et l’exclusion à la participation : eliminer la pauvreté sous toutes ses formes

Published on: 21/10/2016
Bobo-Dioulasso - Lundi 17 Octobre 2016 - Célébration de la Journée Mondiale du Refus de la Misère

Early Learning Centre in Mymensigh in Bangladesh

Southern NGO BRAC and its global initiatives: an inside look

Published on: 13/05/2016
The largest NGO in the world, BRAC headquartered in Bangladesh, applies its development aid concepts outside Bangladesh in ten countries around the world. The silver bullet? Building on the strength of each individual. An interview with Petra Costerman Boodt, BRAC International's Resident...

water meter

Affordability of WASH services: rules of thumb and why it’s difficult to measure

Published on: 27/06/2014
What happens when people cannot pay for water and sanitation services? Mostly, we hear about women and girls in low income countries and how they access polluted water from ponds, rivers or hand dug wells. This week, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (USA) made it to international news for...