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Menstrual Hygiene Day will help to break the silence and build awareness about the fundamental role that good menstrual hygiene management (MHM) plays in enabling women and girls to reach their full potential. Take IRC's Menstrual Hygiene Day Quiz and listen to our WASH Talk podcast on menstrual... Read more...
Panel discussion on How to Influence and Engage Government in Sanitation - 1400 GMT 17 May 2017 Read more...
The Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity (MOWIE) and the Water Integrity Network (WIN) in collaboration with co-convening partners, including IRC, are organising an East African forum on water integrity. Country experiences will be shared with participants from various countries... Read more...
"Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Schools – A neglected issue" is the topic of the thematic discussion organised by the SuSanA platform. While nowadays MHM is gaining more and more attention, it has widely been neglected in the past. SDG4 (education), SDG5 (gender equality) and SDG6 (water and... Read more...
Learn about challenges and opportunities in involving children and youth when designing and implementing WASH initiatives. This is the last of four webinars organised by End Water Poverty during the March 2017 Water Action Month. The webinar starts at 3:30 PM (GMT). For the full list of webinars... Read more...
This is the 3rd of four webinars organised by End Water Poverty during the March 2017 Water Action Month. Speakers include representatives from: Water for People, Water Integrity Network (WIN), The Springfield Centre, IRC, Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) and Improve International. For the full... Read more...
World Water Day is an international observance and an opportunity to learn more about water related issues, be inspired to tell others and take action to make a difference. World Water Day dates back to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development where an international... Read more...
There is an appetite to move away from business as usual among grant-makers and grantees alike, and there are good examples of people and institutions that are breaking the mpld. Osprey Foundation and IRC will be sharing lessons learned on their partnership in an informal semi-structured... Read more...
This is the 2nd of four webinars organised by End Water Poverty during the March 2017 Water Action Month. For the full list of webinars see the Water Action Month programme overview . IRC is a member of the End Water Poverty Steering Committee . Read more...
Organised annually since 2012 by students at the University of Colorado - Boulder, the themes of the 2017 Colorado WASH symposium were: behaviour change, business of WASH, humanitarian, refugee, and other challenging contexts, social dimensions of WASH, systems of WASH, and technology and... Read more...
FSM4: 4th International Faecal Sludge Management Conference, Chennai, India, 19-22 Feb 2017 Worldwide, 2.7 billion people rely on onsite sanitation. Yet, there is still typically no management system in place to deal with the resulting faecal sludge (e.g. septage and pit latrine sludge). The result... Read more...
IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty will shine on the TEDxDenHelder stage with his TED talk 'It's about the systems, stupid!' During TEDxDenHelder 21 inspiring speakers will share their brilliant ideas - some of them through inspiring stories, others with music and art performances. Despite the diversity of... Read more...
Is Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) an effective and long-term solution in the sanitation value chain? That was the question that Indian sanitation experts reflected on in Jaipur, the state capital of Rajasthan, at a multi-stakeholder dialogue on 'FSSM Matters: Looking Forward' on 10... Read more...
The RWSN Forum is the foremost global event on rural water services and takes place every 5 years. Some 650 participants from all over the world are expected at the 2016 event, which is in English and French. With the title, Water for Everyone , the Forum will explore how we are going to reach... Read more...
The Mole Conference is one of the biggest multi-stakeholder annual platforms in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana. The conference is organised by the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) and brings together sector practitioners from NGOs, Government, private... 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...
The Netherlands has been at the forefront of ensuring sustainability of WASH services. The IOB policy review in 2012 made it clear that a significant percentage of water and sanitation facilities that were developed with Dutch support, provided poor quality services and had limited sustainability... Read more...
Ghana Youth Environment Network (GYEM), in collaboration with WaterAid Ghana and the Resource Centre Network (RCN) invites you to the learning and sharing meeting on the above theme. GYEM will lead the discussion with support from WaterAid Ghana under the advocacy for WASH Based Climate Adaptation... Read more...
IRC and Plan would like to invite you to "What's New Pussycat? How Tom Jones inspired better learning and collaboration in WASH", a roundtable discussion on learning in the WASH sector. As a sector, we are trapped in our old ways of distilling and sharing knowledge – essentially a sector-wide... Read more...
Our forthcoming seminar aims to share some of the latest experiences in using new technologies and innovations to monitor WASH infrastructure, and keep it working. A Learning Seminar on 'Monitoring and Messages for Faster Maintenance' will be organized by IRC, the NWCO/MoWIE, Lowland WASH and... 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...
The Water and Health Conference 2016: where science meets policy will take place at the Water Institute at UNC. Water and Health Conferences focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in a global context with a strong public health emphasis. This year's theme is domestic WASH in high income... Read more...
" Insights " is a Knowledge Series co-designed by the India Sanitation Coalition, IRC and TARU Leading Edge. This first dialogue is on the theme of Sanitation Promotion and Behavioural Science. Policy makers, researchers and social and market practitioners were invited to an expert panel discussion... 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...
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...
