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No matter how good the infrastructure is, if it isn't hygienically used and operated, people's lives and health will not be improved.

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PPE distribution featuring LC5 Chair, Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga

Safeguarding public health where it matters most

IRC Uganda leads interventions to advance urgent improvements to the state of healthcare facilities...
Madame Sika Kabore

By 2025 we should be at zero

The First Lady of Burkina Faso urges the number of health care facilities in sub-Sahara Africa...
Mains propres bonne sante campaign billboard in Ouagadougou

Clean hands campaign reaches 2.8 million people in Burkina Faso

IRC Burkina Faso had an ambitious target: to reach 3.6 million people with an important public...
Bangladesh 8th Five Year Plan cover

WASH well positioned in Bangladesh's new Five Year Plan

Water resources management, equitable access and hygiene receive due attention.
A discussion on the covid response planning process

A new effort in responding to COVID-19 in Negelle Arsi and Shashamane

IRC WASH Ethiopia is supporting Shashamane and Negelle Arsi woredas on knowledge management around...
Schoolgirls washing hands

WASH in schools: learning from winners

A compilation of best practices from Odisha, India.
Wale Belayneh, Public Relations Director at the Amhara Region Health Bureau

Kicking off Ethiopia's hand washing campaign

On Global Hand Washing Day, Ethiopia kicked off a one-month hand washing campaign.
Catherine Kemigabo, district health educator in Kabarole, Uganda

Investing in healthcare facilities saves lives: a video from Uganda

An appeal for more funding for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in healthcare facilities in...
Schoolgirls washing hands

Good sanitation practices in Bongo District, Ghana

Video on the improvements taking place around sanitation and hygiene in Bongo District, Ghana.
Handwashing during Global Handwashing Day in Ouagadougou

Global Handwashing Day in Burkina Faso

IRC Burkina urges people to wash their hands with soap regularly.
IRC Burkina country director Juste Nansi being interviewed during Global Handwashing Day

Journée mondiale du lavage des mains au Burkina Faso

L'IRC exhorte la population burkinabè à se laver régulièrement les mains avec du savon.
Main propres Bonne Sante

Clean hands, good health, today and everyday

IRC Burkina Faso seeks to reach 3.6 million people with a critical public health message.
Child washing hand in India

Handwashing with soap: technologies and innovations (webinar)

Join webinar on 12 October to explore opportunities, identify challenges and brainstorm solutions...
Delegates at the table during the handing over of materials against COVID-19 ceremony in Banfora, Burkina Faso

Stop COVID-19: equipment for Banfora district

Health centres, schools, public places and the population of Banfora in Burkina Faso have received...
Kabarole chairman R. Rwabuhinga cuts ribbon to open sanitation facility at Bwanika Health Centre II

Bwanika Health Centre II gets much needed sanitation facility

Thanks to IRC Uganda's cost-saving initiative Bwanika Health Centre II in Kabarole District now has...
Handwashing device handed over in Banfora, Burkina Faso

Stop Covid-19 : du matériel pour la mairie de Banfora

Les centres de santé, les écoles, les lieux publics et la population de Banfora ont reçu du...

Blogs, podcasts, opinions and more

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Tingrela HCF

Hygiene promotion should be a long-term effort

"I am calling on WASH and health professionals to change the way we address hygiene promotion", says Juste Nansi, Country Director IRC Burkina Faso.
Woba Ari district discussing on the final master plan

Insights and inputs from WASH stakeholders to district WASH master plans

Different stakeholder groups from four districts gave inputs to the District WASH master plan to attain SDG 6 by 2030.
Demonstration of no-touch handwashing device in the contest that took place in Ethiopia

Innovating for no-touch handwashing: Ethiopian industrial designers reach for scale

A design competition initiative of USAID Transform WASH
Young girls listening to teacher talking about menstrual hygiene in Kenya

Review policy and funding to support post-COVID teenage mothers

The deep divide between governmental health policies on menstrual hygiene and the reality on the ground during the pandemic.
Honduras Hurricane Eta

10 years of progress washed away

In the wake of Hurricane Eta, IRC and Water For People support government appeal and call for immediate action to restore a decade's worth of water...
Handwashing instructions in India

What’s at stake? WASH in times of COVID-19 in India

Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India.
Handwashing device Aga Khan Foundation

COVID-19 WASH response in two Indian states

The Aga Khan Foundation is organising WASH interventions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in response to the pandemic.
USAID Transform WASH is supporting local manufacturing and distribution of hand washing stations

Small business and WASH in the age of coronavirus

Since the coronavirus began spreading throughout the world, few things have been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our activities to develop...
Waste disposal at healthcare facility in Kabarole, Uganda

Treating medical waste during COVID-19 in the Global South

Is hazardous medical waste sufficiently managed?
Isaac Adita, principal enrolled nurse at healthcare facility in Foe

Five-star toilets help health centre set new standards of hygiene

Some of the cleanest and smartest toilets in the whole Bongo district are found at Foe Community Health and Planning Services (CHPS). This community...
Janet Wilson collecting water close to her house in Agravi, Ghana

Asutifi North: Collaboration makes water flow

Examples of how Asutifi North has become a beacon of hope for water services in Ghana.
Girls from Kenyasi No2 Model Basic School washing hands

Kenyasi students demonstrate how clean water can save lives

Young people at two schools in Kenyasi No 2 in the Asutifi North District of Ghana have been showing their fellow citizens how to stay safe from...
Using a simple handwashing device in Bongo, Ghana

Silver linings of the COVID-19 crisis in Ghana

Perspectives of a WASH systems advocate and watcher. Using a simple handwashing device in Bongo, Ghana. Photo: IRC Ghana
Cartoon of disabled person trying to wash hands but tap is too high (source:Mdogo)

How to avoid a 20-year setback in the water and sanitation sector

Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision.
Kenyan school girls taking the pledge in past activitiy

Keep focus on menstrual hygiene management also during COVID-19

Continue with menstrual hygiene management (MHM) activities during COVID-19 as so much still needs to be done especially for the vulnerable.
Covid-19 - what's missing

COVID-19–why the gaps in available data are far more terrifying

Who'd have guessed the biggest news item so far in 2020 would involve being told how to wash your hands? Yet it has been – at least for those of us...

Resources

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Water, sanitation and hygiene in schools : a journey towards Swachh Odisha

2020
A guide for implementing WASH in schools...

Healthcare workers exposure risk assessment : a survey among frontline workers in designated...

2020
Despite the high level of exposure to the COVID-...

Handwashing with soap: technologies and innovations (webinar)

2020

Good practice for WASH in Ghana : meeting the targets for water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030

2020
The NDPC selected three districts in Ghana -...

Case Study: Strengthening the One WASH National Program for effective WASH implementation, Aleta...

2019

[Video] Creating menstrual hygiene management champions

2019
A video capturing an MHM stakeholder breakfast...

Menstrual hygiene day 2019 : Achievements and challenges in Uganda since 2014

2019

Leaving no one behind : identifying and addressing barriers to WASH service delivery in Uganda

2019
Nearly 10 million Ugandans face multiple...

Comptes nationaux du secteur eau, hygiène et assainissement

2019
Comptes nationaux du secteur eau, hygiène et...

Evaluation of water, sanitation, hygiene and environmental conditions in 40 healthcare facilities...

2019
The report gives recommendations on what needs to...

Sanitation and hygiene sector trends

2019
Unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural...

Replication guideline to SEHATI programme approach (Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for...

2019
This book showcases an approach to expand the...

A framework for targeting water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in pastoralist populations...

2019
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in...

MHM learning visit to Kenya, 23-25 April 2019 : highlights

2019
What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African...

Hygiene promotion and WASH systems strengthening - podcast

2019

Gender and equity issues in WASH : addressing inequalities in the ONEWASH Plus programme...

2019
Addressing inequalities by improving access to...

Videos

Colloque Assainissement et Hygiène - IRC & UNICEF Burkina 2018
Getting to 100% universal access in Bhutan
From door to door
WASH goes to school
Save Lives, Clean your Hands
Cost-effectiveness of hygiene promotion
WASHCost Mozambique
International Women's Day in Asia: a celebratory video