Is finance a red herring and what is "Rosenboom's law on pilots"? Learn more from an IRC friend for over 30 years. Read more...
Achieving SDG6 needs continued dedication but sometimes appreciation of hard work is welcome. Read more...
Passing on the baton. IRC takes the legacy of Ton Schouten forward. Read more...
Read IRC's literature review on approaches to driving whole system change in the effort to achieve sustainable water services for everyone. Read more...
Harold Lockwood, giving a testimony to Ton's life at the USAID Co-creation workshop in Washington D.C. Harold and Ton got to know each other since the 1999s early 2000, both forming part of the Thematic Group on Scaling-Up Community Management for Rural Water Supply, and worked together off and on, ever since.
Read more...The Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) honours IRC Uganda's Country Director. Read more...
The Triple-S Initiative was conceived in 2009 with the aim of contributing towards improved sustainability of rural water supply services. This video tells the story of the Triple-S Initiative in Uganda.
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If you could start from scratch and design a new WASH sustainability tool, what would it look like? Participants from the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum share their ideas on the principles of their ideal WASH sustainability tool. The 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum brought together over 150 participants from nearly 30 countries to discuss concrete approaches to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sustainability. The Forum took place in Amsterdam, on 30 June and 1 July.
Read more...IRC has been awarded US$ 3 million to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
What will rural water supply look like in the future? And will it include the handpump or are there viable, and preferable, options? Read more...
Triple-S, short for Sustainable Services at Scale, is an initiative to address the challenge of sustainability of rural water supplies. Read more...
Together, Mozambique's National Directorate of Water and IRC are creating a roadmap for re-envisioning how rural water services are delivered. Read more...
Financing the life-cycle cost gap: does it make a difference? Read more...
Case studies from Mozambique identify successful approaches to community-based water and sanitation services. Read more...
A post reflecting on the theme of World Water Day: 'Affordability of public goods: why does energy outperform water?' Read more...
Een blogpost met reflecties op het Wereld Water Dag thema: Betaalbaarheid van publieke voorzieningen, waarom is er meer aandacht voor energie dan voor water? Read more...
'Each year World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video shows how stakeholder cooperation enhances water facilities.
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Vida Duti, leading the Triple-S project in Ghana, talks about the importance of monitoring water services to plan and direct investments. Triple-S Ghana has worked on functionality mapping using FLOW.
Read more...Developing, testing and using Service Delivery Indicators in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...