IRC Ethiopia

Pastoralist water security: a learning seminar

Published on: 23/10/2018

This seminar - held at the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa on 25 October 2018 - shared innovative research from the WEEP project on measuring water security in the Ethiopian lowlands. This drew on the study of emotions by the WEEP project team (Cranfield University, Oxfam, IRC WASH, IWMI and the...

Rallying for School WASH in Addis Ababa

Published on: 26/09/2018

Behaviours learned at school, like washing hands, stay with students for the rest of their lives and will influence those around them. The Ethiopian government is working hard to ensure that all children are enrolled in school and at the same time is challenged to provide adequate facilities for...

Rural utilities for water supply in Ethiopia

Published on: 19/04/2018

A new guideline seeks to professionalise the management of multi-village water supplies in Ethiopia

Sitting on a gold mine

Published on: 22/03/2018

A team representing government and NGOs from Ethiopia joined a visit to Ghana to learn about planning for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for WASH.

Just another drinking water filter?

Published on: 05/03/2018

With water quality at source and point of use a major concern, there is renewed interest in Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTSS).

Getting to the heart of climate resilient WASH

Published on: 15/02/2018

Climate resilient WASH is about new ways of working across the traditional humanitarian and development sectors. We went to one of the harshest spots in Ethiopia, and surely in the world, to find out more.

Learning how to fix the system and not just the pump

Published on: 29/11/2017

As Ethiopia manages to develop more and more new rural water schemes – springs, wells or boreholes with hand-pumps or engines, piped water – keeping the existing infrastructure running well and safely is a challenge that gets bigger every day. And, despite some encouraging efforts, it's a challenge...

Emergency mapping and critical maintenance measures: the drought and boreholes in Somali Region

Published on: 14/03/2017

Under severe conditions of water scarcity, it is vital to keep motorised boreholes pumping across Ethiopia's Somali region.

The power of photo stories in Ethiopia

Published on: 28/11/2016

Photographs showcasing that Self-supply can change people's lives.

Self-supply in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia

Published on: 18/11/2016

Self-supply is the term given to families helping themselves through development of their own water supplies. Usually based on wells dug near the home or fields, such water supplies meet a range of domestic and food production needs. The regional government are launching a new programme to support...

Monitoring and messages for faster maintenance

Published on: 28/10/2016

When something is broken, we might shout for help and then, if we are lucky, get it fixed. Our kids try this and sometimes they get a response. Something similar happens in water supply.

Sanitation and hygiene more important than drugs in beating disease

Published on: 26/10/2016

Can Self-supply help combat Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in rural Ethiopia?

Mid-term review workshop for the ONEWASH Plus Programme

Published on: 21/09/2016

Partners in the ONEWASH Plus Programme - all working to find new ways to deliver integrated WASH infrastructure and services in small towns - came together to share progress and learn lessons.

Piloting Self-supply in seven woredas

Published on: 08/06/2016

Early in 2015, we worked with World Vision to develop a baseline for their interventions in Omonada woreda (in Oromia region), Ethiopia, where they are piloting a Self-supply acceleration approach.

IRCs support to Ethiopia's One WASH National Programme recognised

Published on: 22/04/2016

Recognising the importance of the UK's support to Ethiopia - where DFIDs largest WASH programme is assisting one of the largest African nations to extend water and sanitation services - IRCs specific role in helping to improve monitoring systems is flagged in this new briefing prepared for the UK...

'Priority for One WaSH National Programme' – focus of recent multi-stakeholder forum in Ethiopia

Published on: 29/01/2016

The Multi-Stakeholder Forum - popularly know as the MSF - is the key annual WaSH sector event in Ethiopia. At the end of 2015, the One WaSH National Program was again in the spotlight.

'Deepening' WaSH interventions in Ethiopia

Published on: 07/09/2015

The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) provided funding under the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) for Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) partners to 'deepen' their water, sanitation and hygiene interventions. The extra support was used to experiment with new interventions to...

Following the database trail in Tigray

Published on: 03/08/2015

Tigray is a fabulous region to visit. A great base for visiting some of the finest tourism sites in Ethiopia. We were looking for something else: databases. More specifically we went to Tigray to find out how the region is making efforts to monitor the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene...

Technical meeting debates private sector involvement in the Ethiopian WaSH sector

Published on: 24/07/2015

On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus...

Where is Ethiopia going with Self-supply Acceleration?

Published on: 08/04/2015

This blog post was prepared by Sally Sutton - previously coordinator of the Rural Water Supply Network flagship theme on Self-supply - who returned to Ethiopia in March 2015 to participate in the My Water, My Business events linked to the World Water Day celebrations. Sally has earlier supported...

My Water, My Business

Published on: 14/03/2015

Activities as part of World Water Day 2015 events, 19-20 March 2015, in Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Triggering for Self-supply

Published on: 27/11/2014

Trainees from Millennium Water Alliance partner woredas in Oromia region came together in Adama to learn how to 'trigger' Self-supply.

IRC supporting UNICEF to improve WASH in small towns in Ethiopia

Published on: 24/11/2014

Since commencing activities in July 2014, studies are now well underway including a baseline study covering 16 small towns and research on bottlenecks to private sector engagement in WASH.

Achieving water security for all water users and uses

Published on: 18/11/2014

This third post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at the idea of water security. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management, and the second looked at water services from a...

The Millennium Water Alliance kicks off its second phase and Self-supply acceleration activities

Published on: 11/11/2014

The Millenium Water Alliance – Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) brings together some of the largest NGOs working on WASH in Ethiopia. Just like in the One WASH National Programme, a new and eye catching activity in the second phase of the MWA-EP programme (2014-2017) is the inclusion of Self-supply...