A path to interconnected sectoral progress in Ghana Read more...
Nation states at the 2023 UN Water Conference in New York including Uganda made a collective pledge as the international community to restrict the use of lead in drinking water supply systems. But this pledge is not yet known globally, regionally and locally. Read more...
A summary of a study on country-level accountability mechanisms in 25 countries for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6. Read more...
The meeting of the high-level political forum on sustainable development in 2018 (HLPF 2018) convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council included a three-day ministerial meeting of the forum 16 to 18 July 2018. The theme will be "Transformation towards sustainable and resilient... Read more...
WHO/UNICEF will publish the new indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 6 on July 13th, 2017. Read more...
Background note prepared for the IRC event on the 4th of March 2015. Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
A joint letter from private sector, civil society and academic organisations was sent to the United Nations' Open Working Group with one firm message: Let's work together to finish the unfinished business of the MDGs and strive far beyond to a future of universal access to water, sanitation and... Read more...
Le 15 avril 2014, le Haut Comité aux Réfugiés des Nations-Unies (UNHCR) et IRC ont entamé une collaboration pour piloter l'approche des coûts à long terme des services d'eau potable dans les camps de réfugiés. Read more...
On April 15, 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) in the context of refugee camps and settlements. Read more...
Hygiene is missing from an important United Nations document on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will be submitted to the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly. Read more...
It is the end/start of the year (depending on the moment at which you read this), so time to look at where one stands. The Joint Monitoring Programme of the United Nations has also done that for the state of the nations of the World with respect to drinking water supplies with this* publication... Read more...