"I am calling on WASH and health professionals to change the way we address hygiene promotion", says Juste Nansi, Country Director IRC Burkina Faso. Read more...
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
Is this about that 10euros I owe you? No. It's about the critical importance of finance as a building block within the systems approach Read more...
Private money can only be attracted where government leads and strong systems exist. Read more...
It will cost an estimated US$ 114 billion to deliver WASH to everyone by 2030. As a sector we need to embrace and own this and other big numbers related to SDG 6. Read more...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
In deze blog voor Vice Versa gaat Stef Smits dieper in op de publieke kritiek die minister Ploumen recent kreeg van Kamerleden Taverne en Smaling. Is hulp aan de allerarmsten niet meetbaar? Is Ploumens beleid niet op feiten gestoeld? Na wat graafwerk komt Stef Smits tot een opmerkelijke conclusie:... Read more...
IRC's Chief Executive Patrick Moriarty reflects on the highlights from the annual water conference in Stockholm. Read more...
Een cruciaal onderdeel van de financiering van de nieuwe ontwikkelingsdoelen 2015 - 2030 is belasting, zo pleiten Stef Smits en Catarina Fonseca in vakblad voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking Vice Versa. Zonder belasting zouden wij in Nederland geen duurzame water- en sanitaire voorzieningen hebben. In... Read more...
S'agissant d'assurer des services adéquats pour les pauvres, les approches basées sur la tarification ne suffisent pas. Read more...
"The 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of true WASH service delivery is entirely within our reach," argues CEO of IRC Patrick Moriarty in this second of three blog posts. "We're ready. What's to stop us? Two big scary words: Government and Money." Read more...
Que doivent faire les gouvernements et leurs partenaires de développement pour assurer que le secteur de l'AEPHA soit plus performant ? Lisez le dernier billet de la série de quatre contributions publiées sur ce blog et participez au débat sur « des services d'eau pas la charité » en laissant vos... Read more...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...