water supply

This report on Self-supply aims to help fill some of the gaps in our knowledge about the existing performance of traditional wells, especially water...

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A hidden resource : household-led rural water supply in Ethiopia (PDF)

Supporting institutions, Monitoring, Finance

Country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies

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Supporting institutions

A sustainability assessment tool for rural water services

Published on: 06/03/2013

Ryan Schweitzer and James Mihelcic from the University of South Florida have developed a Sustainability Assessment Tool for community-managed rural water systems [1]. The tool is novel because it focuses specifically on community management during the post construction phase. It can be used to...

Supporting institutions

IRC hosts Indian high-level roundtable on sustainable drinking water services

Published on: 26/02/2013

In association with the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Centre of Excellence for Change Management (CEC), the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre is organising a one-day Roundtable dedicated to the theme Sustainable Drinking Water Services at Scale: Everyone...

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Experiences in supporting operations in small piped schemes : powerpointpresentation for the First Thematic meeting of the RWSN Working Group on Man...

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Rural Water Supply Network: Experiences in supporting operations in small piped schemes

Supporting institutions

Arrangements, impacts and costs of postconstruction support : powerpointpresentation for the First Thematic meeting of the RWSN Working Group on Man...

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Rural Water Supply Network: Arrangements, impacts and costs of post-construction support

Supporting institutions

Establishing the building blocks for sustainable water service delivery in Ghana : a conference paper presented at the 6th Water Supply Network Foru...

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Supporting institutions, Monitoring, Water security, Finance

Hand Pump Mechanics Associations : improving rural water service delivery

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Hand Pump Mechanics Associations : improving rural water service delivery

IRC's approach, Supporting institutions

Bolivia: Cuchumuela first municipality to reach 100 percent water coverage

Published on: 03/11/2012

Villa Gualberto Villarroel, better known as Cuchumuela, is the first municipality in Bolivia to achieve 100 percent water coverage. Official recognition for their achievement came from Bolivia’s water and environment ministry MMAyA. It is the story of a successful partnership between local...

Sanitation

Inclusion of less privileged communities as sanitation beneficiaries in the demand-responsive approach

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Inclusion of less privileged communities as sanitation beneficiaries in the demand-responsive approach

Finance, Supporting institutions

Custos das actividades PEC-zonal em Moçambique : analise dos custos dos contractos de 2008 a 2011(PEC = Participação e Educação Comunitário)

Em 2008 foi introduzida uma nova abordagem de gestão do PEC (Participação e Educação Comunitário) através de contractos únicos para um ano num...

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Custos das actividades PEC-zonal em Moçambique : analise dos custos dos contractos de 2008 a 2011 (PEC = Participação e Educação Comunitário) (PDF)

Sanitation, Supporting institutions, Hygiene

Learning alliances in WASHTech

This document provides a framework to support reflection and documentation of the learning alliance process in the three focus countries of the...

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Learning alliances in WASHTech : a report produced by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (PDF)

Water security, Supporting institutions

Linking water and food security on World Water Day 2012 : food security begins at home

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Linking water and food security on World Water Day 2012 : food security begins at home (PDF)

IRC: Linking water and food security on World Water Day 2012 – Food security begins at home

Supporting institutions, Monitoring

Supporting rural water supply : moving towards a service delivery approach

Why have we been unable to provide a sustainable water service to rural people for so long? What were the success factors in the areas where there...

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Supporting rural water supply: moving towards a service delivery approach (PDF)

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Half a pump handle is better than none!

Published on: 17/11/2011

Residents of Elwany Village in Uganda enjoy a bountiful supply of water. They fetch from a shallow well, located in an area endowed with high water yields. The distance from their homes to the well is convenient as most live within one kilometre of the well. On the Friday we visited this well, in...

Sanitation, Hygiene, Supporting institutions

Promotion of hygiene and sanitation in northern Uganda by Water and Sanitation Development Facility North

Paper presented at the East Africa practioners workshop on pro-poor urban sanitation and hygiene, Laico Umbano Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda, march 29th -

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East Africa Practitioners Workshop on Pro Poor Urban Sanitation and Hygiene LAICO Umubano Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda, March 29th-31st 2011

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Uganda: Why the sub-county is critical for WASH sector coordination

Published on: 02/08/2011

The Uganda WASH sector is awash with government and non-government actors at national, district, sub-county and even parish level. However, the variation in mandates, agenda, and resources often lead to duplication and ineffectiveness in terms of service delivery, as well as lack of alignment with...

IRC's approach, Finance, Supporting institutions

From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice

Training exercise on monitoring services delivery levels

Published on: 20/07/2011

IRC has developed a training course From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice about the practical application of the concepts of a service delivery approach and the life-cycle costs approach for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services.

IRC's approach, Supporting institutions

From dirty to clean pipes : a review of an anti-corruption agreement to prevent corruption in water and wastewater pipe supply in Colombia : paper presented at the IRC symposium ‘ Pumps, Pipes and Promises: Costs, Finances and Accountability for Sustainab

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