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Strengthening the role of rural local bodies in WASH financing and services : policy learnings from a multi-stakeholder workshop

The brief captures the experiences, challenges and recommendations of civil society organisations (CSOs) and local government representatives.
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Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Unicef et IRC appuient les «faiseurs de loi»

Published on: 11/10/2019
Unicef et IRC forment 35 députés et assistants parlementaires en genre et AFDH

Finance assessment of the WASH sector in Uganda

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World Water Week 2019 through the lens of IRC

Published on: 13/09/2019
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way.

Finance assessment of the water sector in Ethiopia

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Movilización de financiamiento para WASH : construir bien las bases

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Mobiliser le financement pour le WASH : jeter les bonnes bases

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Woman constructing latrine in Wazinet village, Eritrea

The good, the bad and the ugly of global WASH finance

Published on: 10/07/2019
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation?

All systems go! finance session

Mobilising finance for WASH: getting the foundations right

Published on: 30/04/2019
10 things IRC, Water.org and the World Bank think you need to know about the enabling environment for finance in WASH

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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Pass notes financing WASH

IRC Pass notes: Financing WASH #notjust4nerds

Published on: 06/03/2019
Is this about that 10euros I owe you? No. It's about the critical importance of finance as a building block within the systems approach

Participants at IRC-NWP WASH Debate on blended finance, 4 December 2018

Blended finance: is it all in a mix?

Published on: 14/12/2018
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate.

Blended finance for beginners : a simplified framework

This presentation provides a simplified definition and framework for blended finance, together with emerging themes and statistics for the water,...
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WASH Debate: Blended finance

WASH Debates - Blended finance: Is it all in a mix?

Published on: 12/10/2018
A conversation on the potential and limitations of blended finance in improving equitable access to WASH services. Read the report .

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Looking for WASH’s magic money tree

Published on: 18/09/2018
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist.

Public finance and accountability with Carlene van der Westhuizen & Catarina Fonseca

Empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets.
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Holding governments accountable for gaps in WASH finance

Published on: 05/07/2018
Empowering civil society with transparency tools to aid in the fight against lagging WASH budgets.

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Public Finance for WASH: update

Published on: 04/06/2018
Public Finance for WASH has moved: we've changed our URL! We're now at www.publicfinanceforwash.org

Public finance for water infrastructure development and its practical challenges for small towns

Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns.
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Sharing water: looking back on the 8th World Water Forum

Published on: 11/05/2018
Watershed partners beat the drum for public finance, civil society and good water governance.

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“Grown up” finance for rural water? RWSN webinar

Published on: 14/11/2017
Finance is a crucial (and unavoidable) building block for ensuring sustainable rural water services. Therefore, the RWSN sustainable services group is organising webinars addressing costing and financing rural water supply which will take place next week on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November. This...

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Bridging the gap between impact investing and the WASH sector

Published on: 07/11/2017
How can impact investment address the multi-million dollar financing gap in the water sector?

Blended finance

How can blended finance can close the financial gap needed to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6?
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WASH Talk podcast on blended finance

Published on: 19/10/2017
How can blended finance help in meeting the financing gap for reaching SDG 6?

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SWA Webinars: Financing the sanitation target of the Sustainable Development Goals [French and Spanish]

Published on: 19/10/2017
Several countries have identified sanitation as the most ambitious and challenging of the WASH-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target and these webinars (one in French and one in Spanish) will focus on building sustainable financing strategies to allow this goal to be met. IRC's Catarina...

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