IRC country director of Uganda, Jane Nabunnya Mulumba reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: building on the legacy of Triple-S and reaching the national targets for water and sanitation coverage Read more...
To deliver WASH services that last, the whole system of individuals, organisations, technologies and the institutions that link them needs to work, and work more effectively. Read more...
Ensuring long-term services on a large scale. Read more...
Users want to know what they are entitled to receive: the quality, quantity, reliability and accessibility of their water supply. Read more...
Helping Ghana to achieve its vision of providing universal water and sanitation services by 2025. Read more...
Water for People has helped Sagar and Patharpratima boost coverage and improve sustainability. Read more...
Developing, testing and using Service Delivery Indicators in Burkina Faso. Read more...
A special issue of ' Water Alternatives' journal looks at trends in water services in rural areas. Read more...
This includes the structured support activities to service providers as well as to users or user groups. This may be provided in a variety of ways by either local governments directly, by regional utility agencies, specialized agencies or external contractors or a by combination of these modalities. Read more...
The professionalisation of community based-management means moving away from an approach based purely on volunteerism, towards a more professional, competent and effective management of rural water services working to agreed standards, and with greater transparency and accountability. Read more...
A message from the Country Coordinator of Triple-S Uganda on the occasion of the World Water Day 2013 Read more...
Service delivery models describe the practical implementation of water service provision as part of a service delivery approach Read more...
El municipio de Chinda ha logrado cobertura total en agua y saneamiento, con el apoyo de la ONG Water For People. El IRC sistematizó cómo se logró esto, y analiza si los servicios serán para siempre. Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...
“The goal of universal access to clean water is far from complete”, says IRC's Stef Smits on CNN International. "Reaching the last 10% of the population -- those living in remote rural areas and on the fringes of big cities - will become increasingly difficult and expensive," he explains in “Going... Read more...
The lack of clearly delineated roles can undermine sustainable services at scale. Read more...
Estudio revela diferentes modelos de apoyo post-construcción a prestadores de servicios en zonas rurales de Colombia Read more...
Water For People adopted the "Everyone, Forever" approach. IRC carried out a case study to learn lessons on scaling-up rural water and sanitation services. Read more...