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Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
Several IRC sessions and the launch of Watershed – empowering citizens. Read more...
The aim of World Toilet Day is to raise awareness about the people in the world who don't have access to a toilet, despite the fact that it is a human right to have clean water and sanitation. On this day people are encouraged to take action and help promote the idea that more needs to be done... Read more...
Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Celebrated annually on October 15, Global Handwashing Day was... Read more...
Sanitation coverage in Amuria district has improved from 52.6% in 2011 to 85% in 2016. How did Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) achieve that? Read more...
The Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) has since 2011, implemented Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in 30 districts in Uganda. As a result,over 6,000 villages have been triggered and over 3 million people are living in Open Defecation Free (ODF) areas. Jane Nabunnya Mulumba , IRC Uganda Country... Read more...
Come and meet IRC staff from The Netherlands and our Burkina Faso and Uganda country offices. The following delegation will attend: Patrick Moriarty - IRC's CEO Juste Nansi - IRC Burkina Faso Country Director Jane Nabunnya Mulumba - IRC Uganda Country Director Lydia Mirembe - IRC Uganda... Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
This seminar aims to share some of the latest experiences in monitoring for sustainability, and to identify next steps for the wider use of relevant tools within the Consolidated WaSH Account (CWA) and the wider One WaSH National Programme . It is being organised by IRC with the One WaSH National... Read more...
IRC helps AMCOW develop a new process to monitor the N'gor declaration Read more...
Clear calls for increased investment in water and sanitation during the Africa Water Week. Read more...
The decision to divert funding from water to sanitation turned sour when drought struck India. Read more...
While the WASH sector grapples with the challenge of making India open defecation free by 2 October 2019, several issues persist. The WASH Dialogues series of events are an initiative of IRC and TARU Leading Edge, two organisations working on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, collectively... Read more...
Africa's governments should "put resolute actions in favour of water and should confront the immediate challenges of scarcity of safe and clean water." a plea by Hon. Kibaki at the opening of the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read more...
Civil Society Organisations in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector have called upon the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW) to take action to ensure universal access to sustainable services, leaving no one behind. Read more...
6th Africa Water Week (AWW-6), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Achieving Universal Access and Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation for All, Sub theme 1 Convenor: IRC Co-convenors: Africa Joint WASH learning initiative members: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Rural Water... Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
In this first year of the Watershed programme the country teams define their goals in a Theory of Change workshop. Read more...
Join IRC at two side sessions during this the 39th WEDC International Conference in Kumasi, Ghana. Read more...
IRC prepared two sessions for the 39th WEDC International Conference 'Ensuring Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All' which will be taking place in Kumasi in Ghana, from 11 – 15 July. Redefining monitoring of rural water services for sustainable impact Tuesday 12... Read more...
