Honduras, just like other Central American countries has adopted SIASAR (the Rural Water and Sanitation Information System) to monitor water and sanitation services in rural areas. IRC supports the development and roll-out of SIASAR in different ways. Read more...
This policy brief presents findings from piloting of M4W, an initiative to enable users to report water facility faults by SMS, in Uganda. Read more...
A new online open source monitoring system provides quantitative and qualitative data to guide decisions and plans for BRAC WASH. Read more...
Modelling and simulation tools provide a powerful means of generating insights in the working of complex water services delivery systems. Read more...
Analysis of large scale surveys and life-cycle costs data requires skilled staff, time and sophisticated software. WASH Info carries out analysis in... Read more...
IRC offers free as well as tailor-made life-cycle costing tools. Contact us for additional support. Read more...
In Bangladesh millions of toilets have been constructed. How do you know if they're being used safely? Smart new software may provide the solution. Read more...
A study on whether water sources classified as "improved" are indeed safe triggered debate on the level of effort that needs to go into water quality monitoring and into measures to improve water quality Read more...
New technologies are being designed for data collection and analysis. Read more...
The Mobile for Water (M4W) experiment has been undertaken as part of the IRC-led Triple-S initiative in Uganda and aimed to reduce service downtime and provide real time data on the performance of water services. Read more...
Recent innovations in information technology have greatly improved the speed and accuracy in acquisition of data for improving service delivery in various fields including the WASH sector Read more...
This briefing note discusses the challenges and emerging issues such as affixing unique water source identifiers, unexpected costs and network... Read more...
The World Water Week showed that although there are positive efforts around building partnerships there is still a need for the sector to continue operating in exclusive and life changing ways that lead to lasting impact. Over the course of the week, efforts made by business, governments, charities... Read more...
Reducing downtime of hand pumps using sms technology, Ghana. Read more...
A conceptual framework for using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery in the rural water sector. Read more...
Presentations on tapping ICTs for country-led decision making during the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium, Addis Abeba, April 2013. Read more...
In this folder you can find the presentations related to the session on automated systems. Read more...