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On June 21, 2018 from 3:30-5:00PM EST, the IRC US Office will be hosting a "Coffee and Conversation" informal talk with Patrick Moriarty, IRC CEO, to discuss experiences with district level master planning. To attend in person in Washington DC or listen through the live stream, please register here... Read more...
The Hague edition of Blue Drinks, an event started by the Canadian Water Network, is now being organised for the second time. Co-organisers are IRC's Angela Huston and Lisa Andrews from the International Water Association (IWA). Lisa wrote a background article about Blue Drinks just after the... Read more...
New 2018 RWSN webinar series on rural water services, April 3rd - June 5th, 2018 Read more...
The Global Handwashing Partnership and IRC are organising a discussion on 9 May 2018 at 10 am ET, focused on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Hygiene behaviours one of the most effective ways to improve outcomes in health, education, and... Read more...
This RWSN webinar will present some preliminary findings of a global review on national accountability mechanisms for SDG6, as well as experiences shared by RWSN members during a recent e-discussion on the topic. ENG: How can we make providers and governments accountable for rural water services?... Read more...
One of the key principles of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is "leaving no one behind". This means that all the goals and targets of the SDGs aim to be socially inclusive and should be met for all nations and people and for all segments of society. Furthermore, there should be an... Read more...
The World Water Forum is the world's biggest water-related event and is organised every three years by the World Water Council (WWC). The 8th Forum brings together the world's leading water experts to discuss the nine Forum themes and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The nine Forum... Read more...
A networking event for water and environmental professionals in The Hague. Blue Drinks, an event started by the Canadian Water Network, is now being replicated in the land of some of the best water professionals in the world: The Netherlands! The inaugural bi-monthly networking event in The Hague... Read more...
Through the e-discussion, participants have the opportunity to share stories and experiences from the field on holding governments accountable in delivering sustainable water services. The lessons learnt and advocacy messages from this e-discussion will be compiled into an RWSN e-discussion summary... Read more...
In celebration of IRC's 50th Anniversary, IRC US is hosting a series of events. The first in the series will be a brown bag lunch featuring a presentation and discussion on harmonized monitoring with Antonio Rodriguez Serrano, World Bank Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist. He will present... Read more...
A new dialogue in the Insights series organised by the India Sanitation Coalition (ISC), IRC and TARU Leading Edge will be held on 20 February 2018 in Goa, India, one day before the SuSanA India Chapter Meeting . The theme this time is: "Sanitation & Tourism". Confirmed panellists : GM Taj Taj... Read more...
2018 marks the third year of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While national governments hold the primary responsibility for developing policy, and delivering resources and programmes for the goals, civil society also plays a critical role in the implementation and... Read more...
Within the focus area (speerpunt) “water” of Dutch development cooperation policy, there are two key strands: improving integrated water resources management (IWRM) and the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. At policy level, relevant linkages between these two areas are... Read more...
Finance is a crucial (and unavoidable) building block for ensuring sustainable rural water services. Therefore, the RWSN sustainable services group is organising webinars addressing costing and financing rural water supply which will take place next week on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November. This... Read more...
Finance is a crucial (and unavoidable) building block for ensuring sustainable rural water services. Therefore, the RWSN sustainable services group is organising webinars addressing costing and financing rural water supply which will take place next week on Tuesday 14 and Thursday 16 November. This... Read more...
Several countries have identified sanitation as the most ambitious and challenging of the WASH-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target and these webinars (one in French and one in Spanish) will focus on building sustainable financing strategies to allow this goal to be met. IRC's Catarina... Read more...
Several countries have identified sanitation as the most ambitious and challenging of the WASH-related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target and this webinar will focus on building sustainable financing strategies to allow this goal to be met. IRC's Catarina Fonseca is one of the presenters... Read more...
Come to IRC's side events and presentations at the 2017 Water and Health Conference! The Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy is organised annually by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). It considers drinking water supply, sanitation,... Read more...
Organised by the NGO Platform of the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), this public seminar will inform Dutch Members of Parliament (MPs) about water and development cooperation policy. The MPs in question are members of the Committee on "Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation" The seminar... Read more...
This annual event, organised by SIWI, the Stockholm International Water Institute, consists of more than 200 sessions. One of the highlights is the Stockholm Water Prize Ceremony and Royal Banquet. In 2016, over 3,200 individuals and around 330 convening organisations from 130 countries... Read more...
The conference invites participants from over 40 countries to share experiences and achievements on the sustainable delivery of WASH services through international cooperation. The week includes three days to discuss and debate peer reviewed content, followed by two days of tailored capacity... Read more...
This webinar is part of a series organised by the Sustainable Services Theme of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN ). There are presentations from IRC and UNICEF on the challenges to measuring the sustainability of rural water supply services. How can the sector agree on a core set of indicators... Read more...
Inclusion is not just about improving access to water and sanitation services for those who are currently excluded but also supporting people to engage in wider processes to ensure that their rights and needs are recognised. This webinar will give a short introduction on “Leave No One Behind” and... Read more...
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,... Read more...
This event aims to inspire and inform participants from the WASH sector on different pathways towards sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Speakers from different types of organisations will reflect on their approaches towards exiting, and lessons learnt. Also, the event... Read more...
