The era of eyes on, hands off are gone! Responsibility for rural water and sanitation shifts from local government to new national agency. Read more...
The majority of 'last mile" households still practising open defecation were those that were defiant', socially isolated or geographically isolated. Read more...
An account of personal reflections on the shift to a systems approach. Read more...
An innovative approach to sustain open defecation free (ODF) status in rural areas by making people agents of change in their communities. Read more...
Emotional demonstrations (emo-demos) are used in behaviour-centred design to trigger behaviour changes, such as handwashing with soap, by creating... Read more...
Water access and its management are strongly influenced by gendered division of labour, communal power structures, cultural traditions, and daily... Read more...
In the Hai and Siha districts of Tanzania actors not only acknowledge, but actively harness informality to provide access to water to rural... Read more...
This blog looks at the experience of using 'Payment-by-Results' in Tanzania's water sector, and how adaptive programming is key to bridging the gap. Read more...
An in-depth inclusive analysis on country-level accountability mechanisms towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on clean water and... Read more...
Possessing a non-shared latrine neither guarantees safety to its users nor its categorisation as 'improved'. Instead, the state of the latrine, the... Read more...
Addressing WASH/IWRM linkages from a narrow problem-based perspective seems most feasible but they can also be addressed within the wider, holistic... Read more...
We did this before, but the job is unfinished. Read more...
Strong dependencies were found between functionality and system type and administrative unit (e.g., district). Read more...
IRC leads the cross-country learning and knowledge component. Read more...
IRC leidt de kenniscomponent en het leren tussen landen. Read more...
A large proportion of Tanzanians still do not have access to improved water sources. Read more...
The evaluation gives an appraisal of the impact of the Dutch development cooperation.budget cuts in 2010 on countries and programmes. One general... Read more...
Despite massive investments in rural water supply in Tanzania, the number of people with access to improved water sources has not increased. This begs the question, what could be the reason for this stagnation? Read more...
Which factors in the enabling environment and which links between actors are key to achieving reliable sanitation services? Read more...
Human development and human rights' approaches can benefit each other mutually to improve international and local monitoring systems for water,... Read more...
