Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
Asutifi North district was one of the three selected districts where successes and challenges in the provision of water and sanitation services were collected. Read more...
Bongo District in Upper East Region, is one of the driest areas of Ghana with a population of just over 103,000 people. More than 30 boreholes had to be taken out of use because of dangerously high levels of fluoride in some underground water, causing damage to the bones and teeth of the people who... Read more...
Wassa East in Western Region is an overwhelmingly rural area with a population of more than 105,000 people. The district was facing a water crisis in 2015. About six out of every ten water facilities were non-functional, and payment systems had largely broken down. The District Assembly launched a... Read more...
When Wassa East District Assembly audited 202 water points in 2015 as part of the SMARter WASH project they found that 50% were not functional. They developed a four-year Sustainable WASH Plan to ensure sustainable access to safe water for all communities in the district. Read more...
Ugandan NGO network calls on the national government to prioritise access to safe water. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
The Roundtable for WASH in Emergencies meets every two weeks to monitor progress of the emergency response plan. Read more...
Through source security, service provision and waste management, the state of Bihar has used a holistic approach to ensure sustainability of services. Read more...
A stakeholder network has formulated a WASH response to the pandemic in Honduras as contribution to the broader public health response; and continued public service delivery. Read more...
The status of WASH at national and municipal levels and how IRC and a coalition of partners are working together with Government to inspire and... Read more...
The municipality of Banfora has held its second annual review of drinking water, hygiene and sanitation projects and programmes. Read more...
La mairie de Banfora a tenu sa deuxième revue annuelle des projets et programmes d’eau potable, hygiène et assainissement. Read more...
What are practical implications to achieve the human right to water by 2030? Solutions to this question will be explored from different practical and legal angles every Tuesday until 16 June 2020 in English, French and/or Spanish. Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
A novel public-public partnership between Uganda's national water utility and local government is part of the increasing trend of rural utilisation. Read more...
This costing and financing study report provides insight into all the necessary life-cycle costs of achieving the 2030 vision and ensuring... Read more...
Results from stakeholders workshops in Ethiopia and Uganda indicate that a more intentional focus on factor interactions in WASH systems could lead... Read more...