The second phase of the Millennium Water Alliance's (MWA) Ethiopia Program officially kicked-off at a workshop in Addis Ababa from 30 September to 2 October 2014. Read more...
The focus of IRC's work in Africa outside the focus countries is on strengthening regional institutions and platforms to support government leadership towards achieving nationally defined sector priorities and targets; advocate for policies and practices that adopt a government-led service delivery... Read more...
Ghana's new service monitoring framework provides important insights on underlying causes of water system failure. At WEDC, the framework and findings regarding handpump failure were discussed. Read more...
IRC is developing a methodology to measure behaviour change in the context of a sanitation programme promoting EcoSan latrines. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
This report, commissioned by UNHCR, presents a methodology to cost water services in post-emergency situations as well as in first emergency... Read more...
A 2-week training programme to introduce Water Services that Last and Costing Sustainable Services curricula to BSc students and educational staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane - Rural Engineering School was held in March 2014. Read more...
Priceless! tells the story of the five year WASHCost project to disentangle the costs of water, sanitation and hygiene. The project has influenced international discourse about WASH services and how costs relate to quality and sustainability, and has spun off assets such as the WASHCost Share tool... Read more...
Roel Martens, Senior Advisor at the Directorate-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Joop Colsen, Founder of Colsen BV, shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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