A photo story about the construction of five community latrines by the HYSAWA Fund in Bangladesh. Read more...
The relatively low allocation of financial resources towards recurrent costs of rural water suppy in Uganda works against the delivery of adequate... Read more...
This year's World Toilet Day will draw attention to the need for better sanitation to improve health and nutrition for everyone, everywhere. It will also serve as an important global reminder that #wecantwait for 2.4 billion people to gain access to improved sanitation. Read more...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the target of reaching universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. But can this target realistically be achieved in the most difficult of settings: fragile states? Read more...
IRC Uganda is currently involved in key advocacy initiatives to increase operation and maintenance (O&M) funds and ultimately to change the budget allocations in the District Water and Sanitation Conditional Grant. Read more...
This working paper provides a comprehensive summary of the historical development of Sri Lanka's urban water and sanitation sectors together with a... Read more...
Bringing together research with policy, practice and networking events Where Science Meets Policy, organized by The Water Institute at UNC, considers drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis. IRC... Read more...
This evidence gap map (EGM) provides access to the best available evidence on the outcomes of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions and... Read more...
STOCKHOLM – Today at Stockholm World Water Week 2015, IRC and the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) signed a partnership agreeing to work together on the delivery of lasting WASH services in Africa. Read more...
How can mobile channels support sanitation service delivery while building new engagement models with customers in underserved settings? A review of... Read more...
This book provides guidance on how to prevent corruption in local government and deal with it when it occurs. It includes a section on local public... Read more...
In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
The official opening of the World Water Week in Stockholm (24 August 2015) was marked by world leaders, water experts and development professionals who gathered to discuss, exchange views, experiences and shape joint solutions to global water challenges. Read more...
A summary of the side-event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development July 15th 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session highlighted how domestic resource mobilization is critical to the achievement of goal 6, and to fill the substantial gap between current levels of... Read more...
IRC is working with partners on a research project called 'Community Water Plus'. It consists of case studies throughout rural India. The objective is to understand which models of community managed water supplies - with professional support - work well, and why, so that we understand how they can... Read more...
In Ethiopia, the Self-supply approach for rural water supply is expected to fill gaps left by other service delivery models including community water... Read more...
This summary presents preliminary findings from recent network research in Ghana. These are shared to engage a broader community in current research, and should not be taken as firm conclusions. Questions, comments, and feedback are greatly appreciated. Read more...
IRC believes that all of us in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, need to stop thinking in terms of delivering hardware - and start thinking in terms of managing hardware to deliver services. How does this relate to promoting Household Water Treatment Systems? Read more...