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Life-cycle costs represent the aggregate costs of ensuring delivery of sustainable WASH services through a system’s cycle of wear, repair and renewal. That message was delivered at the WASH Conference 2011: "Towards sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene" in Brisbane, Australia,... Read more...
The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa. Read more...
Human rights groups warn that residents face a severe water crisis. An estimated 95% percent of drinking water fails to meet international standards and water and sanitation plants have yet to berebuilt following the 2009 Israeli war. Read the full transcript Source : FSRN / Real News , 28 Jul 2011 Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...
Mr Edem Asimah, Chairman of the Select Committee on Water and Sanitation, [has] urged government to determine its own water delivery systems for the people and not allow donors to impose their conditions on us. He said over the years various governments had failed to stop donors from imposing... Read more...
On Thursday, after 23 years of hard work and a major setback, Ghana finally declared victory over Guinea worm. Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on volunteers and co-ordinators of the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to be extra vigilant in ensuring that guinea worm did not resurface... Read more...
On 27 July 2011, more than 20 leading international water and development organizations signed and launched the WASH Sustainability Charter. This Charter is a collaboratively-developed mission and set of guiding principles to advance lasting solutions in water, sanitation and hygiene education (... Read more...
Vendredi 22 juillet, le secrétariat permanent du réseau de centres de ressources (RCR) du Burkina Faso a organisé un atelier spécial pour les membres de ce réseau. 25 participants ont pu échanger dans le cadre d’un programme très dynamique et participatif qui a permis de jeter un regard sur les... Read more...
Pour gagner le pari de la mise en œuvre du projet WASHTech au Burkina, un atelier d’échanges et de partage d’expériences entre acteurs du secteur de Hygiène Assainissement et l’Eau Potable s’est tenu le jeudi 14 juillet 2011 dans la salle de formation du CREPA avec près d’une vingtaine de... Read more...
In order to introduce the WASHTech project to the actors in the WASH sector, the project country team organized a workshop on July 14 th 2011 at CREPA HQ. Read more...
Le goitre est une augmentation de la glande thyroïde due à plusieurs causes dont la carence en iode dans l’alimentation et dans l’eau de boisson. Pour ce cas précis et réel, il s’agit d’une apparition brusque de goitre chez toute une population qui consommait l’eau d’un puits pourtant utilisé... Read more...
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead? Read more...
Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis, say civil society groups, ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the End Water Poverty Campaign. Read more Source: Public Agenda / allAfrica.com, 25 July 2011 Read more...
Twenty years after the UN launched the Decade for the Eradication of Poverty, and 10 years into the MDGs, the news from a global think tank this week, that more than one billion people still live without access to safe drinking water, health care, and other essentials of daily life doesn't really... Read more...
The community of La Sirena outside Cali, Colombia, has been practicing good conservation of water for over 20 years. The community was trained by Cinara, a local institution specializing in water and sanitation projects. Sustainability of La Sirena’s water system is a success, while other... Read more...
The Youth Zone young professionals exchange programme, just like life itself, may not be so smooth for some. It comes with its own ups and downs. Read more...
Any learning process must be effective. In Ghana, the learning process in the water and sanitation sector is extensive and devolved, as it should be. But there is an important gap. A structured mechanism is needed to channel lessons from the communities, learning alliances, and other learning fora... Read more...
Various users of E-Source dropped by at the IRC stand at AfricaSan 3 sharing how they are using and sharing news articles of their choice with colleages and junior staff. Read more...
Mr. Joseph Katabarwa, Environmental Health expert, Ministry of Health, Rwanda has been in touch with IRC since 1998 when he did a three-week course on Hygiene Promotion in Nairobi by Netwas International and IRC. Later he did two more courses in Kenya: one on Management for Sustainability in Water... Read more...
Community-managed sewage treatment systems do a good job and have as added bonus that they also encourage local people in rural areas to build their own toilets. What is more, local farmers can re-use the treated effluent which brings them money as well as promotes sustainable agriculture,... Read more...
