The new project focuses on supporting the woreda’s resource mobilisation and capacity building efforts to ensure effective and sustainable WASH service delivery. The launch event promoted stakeholder alignment and engagement, with officials highlighting the importance of collaboration, resource... Read more...
The 12th annual WASH, WRM, and Energy Multi-Stakeholder Forum in Ethiopia focused on resilience and brought together key sector actors Read more...
Many initiatives on integrated water resources only show results in the long run. However, in Abijata Shalla, participants are already seeing improvements in a short time Read more...
Making the case for affordable safe drinking water in Kabarole, Uganda Read more...
Une session de formation a été organisée à Nossombougou pour renforcer la capacité des comités villageois de gestion de points d’eau. Read more...
Analysis enables forecasting of water access, longevity of sources and investment priorities. Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
Read IRC's vision for the coming ten years. Read more...
In-house fault-reporting and maintenance systems work better than crowdsourcing models where users are encouraged to report faults. Read more...
Stagnant water is the ideal breeding ground for the Zika virus carrying mosquito. Read more...
This briefing note highlights the key issues surrounding Operation & Maintenance of water supply facilities, based on experiences from four districts in Uganda. Read more...
A message from IRC Uganda and Ministry of Water and Environment on the occasion of World Water Day 2015 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...
The record of the WASHTech December 2013-webinar on the validation, introduction and scaling up of water and sanitation technologies in a country or a given local area. Read more...
Report assessing level of compliance with regulations in eight communes of the Sahel region. Read more...
This short video, produced by the WASHTech project, illustrates the challenge of technology in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
In 2012, when Indian Minister Jairam Ramesh remarked that “the country needs more toilets than temples”, he was stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation. Not all religious leaders object to linking temples to toilets though. On 25 September 2013, a... Read more...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... Read more...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has issued a statement calling on churches, governments and the United Nations to ensure universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene as part of the post-2015 development agenda. The Church is seen to have a vital role in advocating for the full realisation... Read more...
The BRAC WASH II research call for low-cost water technologies was won by PRACTICA Foundation, based in The Netherlands. Their project title is ASTRA, Aiding Sustainable Water Technology Realization in Arsenic and Salinity contaminated Areas of Bangladesh. Read more...