Find out about what IRC has been doing and what was going on in the world of water, sanitation and hygiene. Use the filters to narrow down your search. For the latest, we invite you to visit the Riva website.
Examples from Ghana and Southern India on making money from shit triggered an interesting discussion at a lunch side event A Business Perspective on the Recycling of Human Waste on 23 August 2011 at Stockholm World Water Week. It was convened by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI),... Read more...
From August 10 to 12, Triple-S Ghana participated in the 22 nd edition of the Mole Conference Series. The Conference, which was organised by the Ghana Coalition of NGO's in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) is the biggest multi-stakeholder annual platform in the WASH sector in Ghana. Over 150... Read more...
La Direction générale des ressources en eau (DGRE) a organisé un atelier le 19 août 2011 à Ouagadougou qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de la sensibilisation et de l’information des agents des différentes structures dans le domaine de l’eau. L’atelier visait à faire une plus ample connaissance avec la... Read more...
Em Novembro de 2010 WASHCost Moçambique fez a sua primeira apresentação de resultados preliminares da sua pesquisa em Moçambique. Também fizemos apresentações ulteriores, que estão aqui disponíveis Read more...
Esta série visa estudar os Determinantes da inflação no sector de água e saneamento; a Variação Cambial em Moçambique e seu impacto no sector de ASH bem como a Paridade do Poder de Compra (PPC).Essas variaveis são importantes para a melhor orçamentação, planificação e alocação de recursos, pelo que... Read more...
Triple-S Ghana Workstream organised a reflection meeting to review the Narrative 2 of the Triple-S project. Read more...
O objectivo desta série de documentos do WASHCost Moçambique é de analisar os valores dos contractos assinados pelo Governo entre os anos de 2009 a 2011. Assim, os três documentos que levam todos a designação C0, se debruçam sobre os contractos de construção de furos, reabilitação, fiscalização e... Read more...
Scientists from the University of California have been using small variations in the Earth’s gravity to identify trouble spots around the globe where people are making unsustainable demands on groundwater, one of the planet’s main sources of fresh water. They found problems in places as disparate... Read more...
Environ 60% de la population urbaine, vivant dans les pays membres de la Communauté de développement d’Afrique australe (SADC), souffre d’un manque d’eau de boisson et de ménage. Plus de 75% de cette population vit dans les milieux non urbanisés, … Read more...
La tenue de la session du conseil municipal de la commune de Bafoussam 3ème à Bamougoum, a été précédée d’une descente sur le terrain. En réalité, il s’est agi pour quelques conseillers municipaux, d’apprécier l’évolution des différents chantiers réalisés sur … Read more...
The UN's latest Millennium Development Goals Report notes that progress in sanitation has largely bypassed the poor while rural populations remain disadvantaged. Read more...
Quelque 300 forages ont été réalisés par l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) dans les régions de Matam, Tambacounda et Kédougou, dans le cadre du Programme d’hydraulique villageoise, souligne l’organisation d’intégration communautaire dans un document bilan remis aux... Read more...
Access to safe water and sanitation are among the ten top global public health achievements in the first decade of 21st century identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC asked experts in global public health to nominate noteworthy public health achievements that... Read more...
The Mole Conference series is the biggest Multi-Stakeholder annual platform in the WASH sector in Ghana. The three day conference brought together policy makers and implementers, local authorities, representatives from civil society, academia, non-governmental organizations, private sector and the... Read more...
National Geographic described it as one of the highlights of the 2010 World Water Week in Stockholm. Now the WaterCube team lands for the third year running, with its Flip and mobile phone camcorders, distinctive white cube studio and unique rapid-fire interviews, shared online. WaterCube is a... Read more...
Event type: Side Event Date: 23 August Time: 17:45 - 18:45 Convenor: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), The UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) Room: K11 Read more...
Visitors on our stand are also invited to share a story with their views on WASH services that last. Three reasons to tell us a story about rural water supply. Read more...
IRC will flag new functionalities for users of E-Source news and features service, including My Source options at the IRC stand EH 03:38 during the 2011 Stockholm World Water Week. Users of our online WASHDoc library database can benefit from new functions such as saving your search results for the... Read more...
IRC, represented by Ms. Erma Uytewaal, has been elected by the Research and Learning Constituency partners to represent the group on the Steering Committee of the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership. Read more...
What will the international Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector look like in, let us say, 10 years from now? Will access to sanitation still lag behind water supply, or will it evolve into a stand-alone sub-sector with its own set of dedicated institutions and organisations? Will aid... Read more...
