Report of an August 2020 webinar with representatives from national, state and local government and civil society. Read more...
Through source security, service provision and waste management, the state of Bihar has used a holistic approach to ensure sustainability of services. Read more...
IRC has worked for over four decades in India and will continue to do so as outlined in our latest strategy. Read more...
Working papers focusing on the institutional setup and financial flows for WASH in Bihar and Odisha. Read more...
New project helps local government make their cities open defecation free. Read more...
Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
The Sanitation Innovation Accelerator attracts and supports market-driven innovations in rural sanitation with a sustainable and scalable business model. Read more...
The challenge of making India open defecation free through WASH Dialogues Read more...
The Community Water Plus project investigates the support that is being provided to community-managed rural water supplies. This is being done for twenty case studies of programmes from across India. Read more...
For community-managed rural water supply to be sustainable, a "plus" is needed: special efforts to empower communities during project implementation, and continued support from government during service delivery. The Community Water Plus project seeks to get a better understanding of the costs of... Read more...
The Community Water Plus project assesses twenty cases of support to community managed rural water supplies across India. IRC carried out one of these studies around support to community-managed handpumps in Patharpratima, West Bengal. The case study concludes that an effective mechanism for... Read more...
Water for People has helped Sagar and Patharpratima boost coverage and improve sustainability. Read more...