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Driving change through our Africa regional programme

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Five reasons for joining the Africa Water & Sanitation Systems Leadership symposium
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Research

Financial Credibility: Key to the Systemic Transformation of Water and Sanitation in Africa
The Ethiopian Presidential Compact dissemination workshop held on December 31, 2025, in Addis Ababa
News

The road to making WASH a leadership priority: Systemic transformation through Ethiopia’s Presidential Compact
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Feature

Cracking the safely managed challenge
Participants of the roundtable on the roadmap for WASH in healthcare facilities in Niger

Niger : Transformer les établissements de santé en piliers de résilience sanitaire au Sahel
Kombissiri market, Burkina Faso
Opinion

Africa’s development financing: Turning potential into reality
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Opinion

Social progress: why NGOs must embrace economic growth and state capacity
Women fetching water in Tenkodogo (photo credit: IRC)
Research

Strategic analysis water and sanitation challenges in Tenkodogo

Cartoon of woman fetching water, image generated by Chat GPT
Opinion

Making Africa’s water sector bankable: Lessons from reform successes
Michael Bationo at AfriSan7
Events

AfricaSan 7: key takeaways from a first-time participant
Kigali Convention Centre
Events

Save the date for Africa Water & Sanitation Systems Leadership Symposium
Aqueduct over a drain for irrigation water, Kenya - Photo credit: Arthur Bostvironnois
Opinion

Beyond de-risking: building the concept of financial credibility
Presenting the SDG Summit
News

IRC delivers message at SDG Summit on Innovative Finance
Malawi and South Sudan Announce Presidential Compacts on Water and Sanitation
Impact

Press release: Malawi and South Sudan announce Presidential Compacts on water and sanitation
All systems go Africa participants discussing water, sanitation and hygiene systems strengthening
Events

All Systems Go Africa communique: Six key takeaways for systems change
WASH finance II
Opinion

Financing drinking water and sanitation in Africa: Let's change our narrative!
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Feature

African Public Development Banks and water and sanitation finance
Head Office of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA), Accra, Ghana - Photo credit: CWSA (
Opinion

Avoiding collapse: What Ghana’s rural water reform can learn from England’s crisis

IRC Africa at a glance

The IRC team focusing on Africa is led by Juste Nansi

28 staff members involved
8 projects
€ 90 thousand invested (in 2024)

 

AMCOW believes in the power of systems, and I believe we all believe in the power of systems. Together we can effect the needed change and get Africa on good track towards achieving the Africa Water Vision and the SDGs.

Dr Tanko Yussif Azzika, Director of Programmes, AMCOW

Our Africa Regional Programme is boosting leadership in policies, finances, and innovations in governance

IRC Africa aims to for regional level impact across the continent targeting at least 700 million people deprived of basic water, sanitation and hygiene.
 
Our Regional Programme is boosting leadership in policies, finances, and innovations in governance. It is strengthening partnerships with important regional organisations, building on the momentum initiated by the All Systems Go Africa symposium in 2022.
 
We worked with the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) to reflect on the design of the post-2025 Africa Water Vision. We built our relationship with the African Water and Sanitation Association (AfWASA), encouraging participation at global and regional advocacy events (All Systems Connect 2023, and AfricaSan7, a flagship sanitation and hygiene event). We're also supporting AfWASA to engage with district WASH operators and authorities through a pilot programme in five of our focus countries.
 
We brought together partners, shared our knowledge and stories and helped advocate for systems strengthening in events such as those
already mentioned, as well as the UN 2023 Water Conference. We've also helped advance innovative solutions for financing water, sanitation and hygiene by working with the African Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the West African Development Bank.

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