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Après l’Est, voilà que le Sud-Ouest du pays souffre amèrement d’un manque d’eau. Si la sévérité de la sécheresse a commencé à se faire sentir dans la région, la faute revient à la baisse drastique du niveau des nappes phréatiques, principale source d’approvisionnement en eau. Cette baisse... Read more...
El IRC apoya al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en el tema de monitoreo de agua y saneamiento rural. Consiste del desarrollo de una guía de indicadores, y apoyo a la aplicación del mismo en El Salvador, Honduras y Paraguay. Read more...
Le Forum de haut niveau a été ouvert officiellement le 12 décembre par le président de la République du Sénégal, Macky Sall. Un nouveau départ est attendu dans la recherche de financements et investissements innovants pour donner satisfaction aux 300 … Read more...
The Government of Uganda is seeking to borrow US$135 million to finance a Water Management and Development Project. Read more...
La population de Ouèglèga, un village de la commune de Tanghin-Dassouri, vit essentiellement du maraîchage pratiqué autour des puits traditionnels. Malheureusement, faute d'aménagement suffisant, les éboulements meurtriers sont fréquents. L'an dernier, 3 personnes ont perdu la vie, noyées dans... Read more...
Suite au coup d’Etat et à l’aggravation de la situation au Mali, quelles orientations ont été prises par Eau Vive vis-à-vis de ses interventions dans le pays? Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has joined the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA), the consortium of US-based organisations that implement water, sanitation and hygiene education programmes throughout the developing world. “This is very exciting for us because IRC is so highly respected... Read more...
IRC’s Alana Potter and Jean de la Harpe facilitated a 2-day training programme for high level officials from Local Government Associations on decentralised service delivery in Pretoria, South Africa in November 2012. The purpose of the training was to test the applicability of the South African... Read more...
Cette publication présente les résultats d’une application de l’approche service développée dans le cadre du projet. Cette approche permet de qualifier le niveau de service reçu par les ménages disposant et ne disposant pas d’ouvrage d’assainissement familial. Read more...
Depuis la première loi sur l’eau du 16 décembre 1964, la politique publique française de l’eau en France n’a cessé d’être modernisée et complétée afin de répondre aux enjeux fondamentaux que sont : l’accès à l’eau potable et à l’assainissement des eaux usées pour tous ; la prévention des risques... Read more...
After 10 years Paul Reiter is stepping down as Executive Director of the International Water Association (IWA). Ger Bergkamp will take over as interim Executive Director until March 2013. Read more...
UNESCO-IHE, on behalf of the SWITCH Consortium and EU, won the IWA's Sustainability Award 2012 for 'innovation in the practical realization of sustainable urban water management'. The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre was one of the 33 SWITCH Consortium partners. Read more...
Dr. Ursula Schaefer-Preuss will start as the new Chair of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) as of 1 January 2013. She takes over from Dr. Letitia A. Obeng. Dr. Schaefer-Preuss is an economist who has held positions as Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Director General of... Read more...
On 4 September 2012, the Water Integrity Network (WIN) Foundation was established in The Hague, Netherlands. The new foundation was established to make it possible for WIN to be the recipient of grants through this legal entity in addition to funds that continue to be received through Transparency... Read more...
Boreholes with handpumps continue to play a significant role as a main source and even in communities with piped networks are used as alternatives when piped networks fail. However, they failed to supply a basic level of service to more than 36% of users in any of the research countries. In the... Read more...
A basic level of service is assumed to be achieved when all the following criteria have been realised by a majority of the population in the service area: Quantity: people access a minimum of 20 litres per person per day, Quality: acceptable quality (judged by user perception and country standards... Read more...
WASHCost research strongly suggests that the rural poor are missing out due to failure to finance water services properly, especially recurrent expenditure subsequent to initial hardware provision. Even the relatively small amount of additional money that is required is 6-12 times bigger than the... Read more...
What you do not measure, you do not cost. What you do not cost, you cannot do: reporting systems must change to reflect the real costs of providing services that last. Read more...
Two decades of investment in water supply infrastructure has substantially increased the number of people with access to an improved water service. However, high breakdown levels and lack of support for monitoring, maintenance and repairs renders services unreliable. People, systems and finances... Read more...
Monitoring often ceases three to five years after a contract has been signed. Finding cost data older than three years is a problem even when projects are implemented by governments, donors or the private sector. Where it does exist, data is rarely sufficiently disaggregated to show the difference... Read more...
