IRC Ethiopia

Costs and gaps in the financing of water services in the Ethiopia

Published on: 25/05/2019

The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-...

AfricaSan is now five! And we are learning fast

Published on: 26/02/2019

AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition.

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...

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.

How can we get more people to treat their own water?

Published on: 16/06/2016

Whether you live in the countryside or city in Ethiopia, your water may be unsafe to drink. Household water treatment is one way we can improve its quality.

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.

Accelerating Self-supply for more water and more jobs

Published on: 29/04/2016

The theme of World Water Day 2016 - Water and Jobs - focused on how enough and the right quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods, and even transform societies and economies. Linked to this theme, the National Self Supply Task Force in collaboration with IRC, MWA, JICA, Water for...

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...

Self-supply Fair 2016 in Addis Ababa

Published on: 11/03/2016

My Water, My Business 2016 is an exhibition and seminar focused on Self-supply and linked to World Water Day 2016. The ambitious aim this year is to bring together different approaches to household-level provision, so going beyond domestic water supply to include household irrigation, water...

'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.

Learning in Butajira: a capital of Self-supply

Published on: 04/11/2015

From 7-9 September 2015, IRC, the Millennium Water Alliance- Ethiopia Program (MWA-EP) and the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) facilitated a national learning retreat on Self-supply. Participants came together in Butajira: a small town in Meskan in the Southern Nations,...

'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...