Recently I listened to a speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger on how the climate movement is stuck and needs to reset. I think our approach to solving the water and sanitation crisis could help. Read more...
What it will take to bring water and sanitation to everyone. Read more...
This is the first of my 'weekly WASH graphs', exploring the relation between the wealth of a country over time, and its level of access to at least basic water services. Read more...
World Toilet Day should really be World Sanitation Systems Day! Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
IRC and Water For People announce their newly formed alliance: Destination 2030. Read more...
UK cuts on water, sanitation and hygiene aid betray international pledges to save lives Read more...
Governments that work for water, water providers on the frontline and people who raise their voices and stand up. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
IRC is delighted to announce that we are working together with Global Citizen for their upcoming festival in New York on Saturday 28 September 2019. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
Many countries are developing or reviewing their water sector monitoring systems to see whether they are SDG-proof. A recurring question in this is the extent to which these should use household-level data of JMP-defined access to limited, basic or safely managed water. We argue that caution should... Read more...
Countries must now set their own realistic national targets and start monitoring them. Read more...
Over the coming years, IRC will work to support partner districts to bring sustainable WASH services to everyone: at least one million people. Read more...
We cannot do it alone. Reflections from the 7th Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum. Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the target of reaching universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. But can this target realistically be achieved in the most difficult of settings: fragile states? Read more...
At the start of the New Year, newspaper and magazines are all busy making predictions of what the year may have in store. Personally, I always enjoy reading The Economist’s “ The World in… ”. In that magazine, predictions are made of how political events may unfold in the year to come, how the... Read more...
IRC country director of Burkina Faso Juste Hermann Nansi about the approaching Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and what they mean for his work in Burkina Faso. Read more...