"IRC is having real impact in the WASH sector internationally and especially in its six focus countries". Read more...
IRC and Water For People announce their newly formed alliance: Destination 2030. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? 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...
Five sessions on capacity building during the IRC symposium provided additional knowledge and skills in WASH systems practice. Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
Provide leadership and accountability! Read more...
As the World Cup soccer gets on its way, it is time to make predictions and projections who might win the SDG 6 World Cup by 2030. Read more...
A year ago today, on the 22nd of May 2016, we lost our dear friend and colleague Ton Schouten. 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...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
Providing water, sanitation and hygiene services that last forever for everyone, is all about systems. Read more...
Ton was a steadfast champion of the cause of sustainability based on respect and support to national actors and institutions. 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...
USAID's Global Water Coordinator Chris Holmes welcomes the recent passage of the Water for the World act, while confirming his agency's commitment to sustainable service delivery 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...