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From 18 July to 27 July, IRC organized a reflection workshop for the recruited Young Professionals who have ended their nine-month work at the receiving partner organisation. They returned to their sending organisation in the last week of July 2011 and they will start bringing into practice what... Read more...
During the third Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference (AfricaSan 3) the Rwanda Environment Care (REC), a local NGO that provides a variety of sanitary facilities across the country, scooped the Utilities Award in Africa for its efforts to improve sanitation and hygiene. Announcing the Utilities... Read more...
The SaniFaso project aims to eradicate open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) in Burkina Faso. The four-year rural sanitation project, which started in December 2010, will construct 16,000 latrines, train local masons and carry out hygiene promotion... Read more...
The Story of SaniFaso is a 5 minutes video presented during the “Learning Sanitation Sector” side event at AfricaSan 3 on the 19 th of July on the implementation of this learning project in Burkina Faso. Read more...
Le programme SaniFaso a présenté cette vidéo dans le cadre d’une séance consacrée à ‘l’assainissement, un secteur en apprentissage’, organisée par l’IRC, WaterAid et ANEW. La vidéo présente les constats des quatre organisations à l’origine du projet (avec l’IRC) sur … Read more...
IRC’s Latin America Regional Programme and RAS-HON have been collaborating in building capacity for documentation of experiences and making these available in different information products, targeted at different audiences and shared through different channels and at different events. Read more...
The book Supporting Rural Water Supply unpacks problems and identifies success factors in delivering rural water services. Now available from Practical Action. Read more...
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) has taken steps to nab water pirates in Colombo and the suburbs, an official said. "We have established a special unit to nab water pirates. It is headed by a chief engineer in the NWSDB," Deputy General Manager, Western and Central (NWSDB),... Read more...
IRC has developed a training course From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice about the practical application of the concepts of a service delivery approach and the life-cycle costs approach for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Read more...
How do you facilitate sector learning? Or in the case of Honduras, how do you facilitate the learning in thematic groups, which work on the basis of the so-called 'double loop' learning theory, in which documentation of experiences and the spreading of lessons plays a key role in getting to new... Read more...
The Ministry of Electricity and Water's pre-paid water supply project aims to conserve water and generate state revenues. Acting Minister of Electricity and Water, Salem Al-Othaina, who inaugurated phase one at Jabriya Water Plant, described it as one of the ministry's "crucial projects", Pre-paid... Read more...
Le blog Wash nouvelles Burkina a été créé en mars 2011. Au cours des quatre mois suivants, il est devenu une réalité quotidienne et un mode de communication important pour les acteurs du secteur de l’eau … Read more...
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are calling on African leaders and international governments to take urgent action on the continent’s critical sanitation situation. The call was issued on the eve of AfricaSan 3, the only Africa-wide conference on sanitation, which is taking place from 19-21 July... Read more...
The results of the international Dettol HABIT Study (Hygiene: Attitudes, Behaviour, Insight and Traits) were recently presented to health and safety professionals by expert professors from the Global Hygiene Council in Dubai. During the symposium, the Dubai Ministry of Education invited a number of... Read more...
This webinar presentation is based on findings from a Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) study of 50 local governments that were declared 100% sanitized/open defecation free almost five years ago. Researchers found that almost 90 percent of households in the areas studied have sustained use of a... Read more...
A l’occasion du lancement officiel du plan stratégique du Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA) aux autorités du Burkina Faso, un cocktail a eu lieu à la résidence du Directeur Général, Idrissa Doucouré. La cérémonie était placée sous le haut patronage de son excellence... Read more...
Amraiwadi, a crime-prone slum area of Ahmedabad, is set for a makeover as nearly 1200 families will get one-bedroom flat with good drainage, separate toilets, a drinking water supply, a landscaped garden and a school. This is the first project to be approved by the state Urban Development... Read more...
Le village de Darsalam est comme son nom l’indique un havre de paix situé dans la zone périurbaine de l’arrondissement de Sig-noghin à Ouagadougou. A l’instar d’autres villages rattachés à Ouagadougou, Darsalam a bénéficié de plusieurs projets de subvention de latrines. Malgré ces appuis, le taux... Read more...
The government is planning to regulate over-extraction of groundwater in agriculture and industry which is seriously affecting drinking water supply in rural India, new Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said. "80 per cent of drinking water supply schemes of rural India are depending on... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="214" caption="Jairam Ramesh. India's new sanitation crusader?"] [/caption] India's new rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has also taken charge of the newly-created Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. Will the former environmental crusader... Read more...
