IRC country director of Uganda, Jane Nabunnya Mulumba reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: building on the legacy of Triple-S and reaching the national targets for water and sanitation coverage Read more...
Communities have an important role to play in sustainable services. In this blog, I present personal highlights reflections from the session on Community-Led Approaches to change in Africa at World Water Week in Stockholm. Read more...
In rural Mozambique, nearly 35% of water facilities are not working or in need of repair. The National Directorate of Water [DNA: Direcção Nacional de Águas] is confronting this problem by catalysing the process for sector reform. DNA adopted the service delivery approach—to essentially improve... Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...