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WASH systems that transform lives

million euros invested overall

2,187,157

people in partner districts we work with directly

200+

partners in development worldwide

2,480

participants at 93 co-organised capacity building sessions

working groups and learning platforms supported

IRC is an international think-and-do-tank building strong WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) systems.

Proceedings part 2

All systems go! proceedings now available

Read the proceedings with summaries of all sessions from the WASH systems symposium in March 2019. Download them here.

Visit the All systems go! landing page.

If you are a WASH Systems nerd and sector colleague please join the conversation in our WASH Experts section here. Or get the deep detail on the WASH Systems approach here.

The UN's target to make access to safe water and sanitation available for everyone, for good by 2030 is 'Sustainable Development Goal 6'. We need to convince district, country and global decision makers of what it'll take to achieve SDG 6.

Patrick Moriarty

Stop being a neo-liberal and embrace the sanitation system

"Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that's because we're not asking for money in the right way or from the right source."

Read the editorial by CEO Patrick Moriarty

Pumps break, but resilient systems keep the water flowing

We know what it will take to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6. It will take people changing the way they think and work. And it will take WASH systems that transform lives.

There is no other way, and there is no other time. We need to act now.

Find out all about IRC's work in our six focus countries Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India and Uganda. And read all about IRC's impact here