In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
This summary presents preliminary findings from recent network research in Ghana. These are shared to engage a broader community in current research, and should not be taken as firm conclusions. Questions, comments, and feedback are greatly appreciated. Read more...
Over the last 12 months, WaterAid, Itad and IRC have conducted desk-based research to better understand the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of ICT-based reporting to improve rural water supply sustainability. Read more...
Sangeeta Ramola is the former Pradhan (president) of the Gawana Gram Panchayat (local government), in the State of Uttarakhand, India. Her work and effort shows the importance of local political leaders in achieving access to rural water supply that lasts. Read more...
This study examines eight initiatives that are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to monitor and report on water supply services... Read more...
IRC's Research into action partner REACH launches its communications. Read more...
Ce rapport résume les principaux constats d'une étude exhaustive sur la qualité de l'eau consommée dans les communes d'Aribinda et de Gorgadji dans... Read more...
Reflections on twelve country case studies provide an insight into the realities of developing comprehensive and systematic country-led monitoring... Read more...
Début d'une collaboration entre IRC Burkina Faso et Oxfam Québec Read more...
IRC gelooft dat iedereen in de wereld recht heeft op schoon drinkwater en goede sanitaire voorzieningen. Monitoring is het controleren of alles nog goed werkt en waar reparaties nodig zijn. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helpt de regering van Oost-Indonesië om dat te doen. Lees hier zijn verhaal. Read more...
How to get the last 35 % unserved in Uganda served? That was the question of the Everyone Forever Hub meeting in Kampala last week between the Ministry of Water and Environment and over 50 representatives from different WASH organisations. IRC Uganda was a co-organiser. Read more...
For Uganda the main recommendations are to widen the scope of the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) from simple rural water supplies to piped supplies... Read more...
For Ghana the main recommendations were to revisit the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) , introduce more robust monitoring, increase sector funding... Read more...
This paper describes how the ASTRA tool can help identify potentially appropriate technical solutions fro the delivery of arsenic and saline-free... Read more...
What is the best technical solution to deal with arsenic-polluted and saline water in Bangladesh? When is it better to treat the water or to choose... Read more...
Triple-S has successfully promoted sustainability and the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) at the international level and in target countries. The... Read more...
The essentials of creating actionable monitoring systems for lasting results. Read more...
This blog post was prepared by Sally Sutton - previously coordinator of the Rural Water Supply Network flagship theme on Self-supply - who returned to Ethiopia in March 2015 to participate in the My Water, My Business events linked to the World Water Day celebrations. Sally has earlier supported... Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso looked into management models that would permanently reduce the number and length of breakdowns of boreholes with hand pumps in rural Burkina Faso. Read more...
IRC Burkina Faso investigated the factors that explain why boreholes with hand pumps in the Sahel region break down so often. Read more...