Chief Executive Officer | IRC
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This article demonstrates the effectiveness of facilitation of a learning alliance by a non-governmental organization providing funding and expert... Read more...
The two utility models present in Kabarole outperformed the community management model, with the existing national utility demonstrating greater... Read more...
Public utilities are expanding into rural areas, are they the future of water and sanitation services? Read more...
Linking WASH and IWRM, as demanded by SDG 6, is essential but hard. With pragmatism and a problem based approach it can be done. Read more...
Or, why getting basic water to everyone is entirely possible. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
Keynote presentation on why networking and collective action are essential to systems change Read more...
Lean government needs a lean private sector to deliver safe water and sanitation to everyone. Both are part of an effective public system. Read more...
Why even social entrepreneurs need strong government. Read more...
Providing water, sanitation and hygiene services that last forever for everyone, is all about systems. Read more...
Creating the capacity to adapt and innovate within national water, sanitation and hygiene sectors Read more...
At IRC we're pretty clear about our aims – about the world we want to see. Everyone, everywhere enjoying access to water, sanitation and hygiene services that last forever. But how to get there? And what's our role? Read more...
In this blog Patrick Moriarty reflects on Stockholm World Water Week 2014. There is good progress in language (and some tools) around the role of government in delivering services, he argues. But it's still an uphill struggle on who pays for what. Read more...
Que doivent faire les gouvernements et leurs partenaires de développement pour assurer que le secteur de l'AEPHA soit plus performant ? Lisez le dernier billet de la série de quatre contributions publiées sur ce blog et participez au débat sur « des services d'eau pas la charité » en laissant vos... Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 3 million to IRC to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in 13 rural districts in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
The most effective approach to adaptation is to strengthen governance of the WASH sector, for example by adopting principles of adaptive management... Read more...
To deliver WASH services that last, the whole system of individuals, organisations, technologies and the institutions that link them needs to work, and work more effectively. Read more...
