We want every household, school, health care facility, workplace and public place in the world to have access to safe and reliable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030. To achieve this we act as a change hub - supporting networks of governments, NGOs, entrepreneurs and users of services. Read about how we're doing across our programmes.
Our impact is wide-ranging. At the centre of our work is catalysing change on the ground – in partner districts in our six focus countries. From there, we bring lessons learned to national capitals and global organisations, networks and decision-makers around the world. We ensure that local learning can positively impact the development of resilient systems in WASH and disrupt failing short-term approaches. Read, listen to and watch stories from the different parts of the WASH system, and check out our data to see how we're doing.
We are working for change in 30 countries around the world.
Our head office is in The Hague, Netherlands. We have 10 IRC offices in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Our work is around the world – in eight focus countries; working with partners in 21 country districts; operating in an additional 22 countries delivering 110 active programmes and projects and with over 200 partners and hundreds of global decision-makers in governments and global institutions such as the World Bank and UN. In 2020, we sought to positively impact the lives of 2.78 million people in our focus country districts. This work continues.
IRCs International Programme is dedicated to taking what we are learning from our focus countries, district-level work and wider international activity and promoting it to global institutions, governments and decision-makers. Its central aim is to ensure that investments and strategies in the WASH sector are more effective in delivering WASH systems.
In Burkina Faso, we are working with the Ministry of Water, Hydraulic Infrastructure and Sanitation, national, regional and local government, NGOs and service providers to deliver sustainable WASH systems.
We are working with one partner district: Banfora
In Ethiopia, we are working with our partners to achieve the goal of universal access to WASH services in targeted places - at national and district level - by 2030.
We are working with seven partner districts: Farta, Dera, North Mecha, Negelle Arsi, South Ari, Mile and Shashamane Zuriam.
Our work in Ghana is focused on working with government, development partners, private sector organisations, NGOs and research institutions to achieve the WASH sector's visionary target of providing universal water and sanitation services by 2025.
We are working with one partner district: Asutifi North
In Honduras, our programme is making an impact by delivering through the Para Todos Por Siempre initiative – a collaboration between national government, municipalities and NGOs. Our office is hosted by CONASA, the national government body responsible for regulating the water and sanitation sector.
Our work focusses on impacting the lives of people in rural communities with a wide-ranging programme in 15 districts across the country.
