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The year 2004 was a challenging one for IRC. We were asked to undertake innovative assignments on an international front. We hosted and organised a number of conferences and continued to strengthen our partnerships and to develop new ones. Some of the highlights in 2004 were reviewing the...Published on: 24/03/2014
2005 was a year of different perspectives for IRC. We underwent an external evaluation, started preparing for our new Business Plan for 2007-2011, gave the concept of learning alliances a further boost and contributed to the sector through different platforms. The external evaluation team talked to...Published on: 24/03/2014
2006 was an important year for IRC. We successfully completed our Business Plan for 2002-2006 and embarked on a new plan for the coming five years. The main theme running through all our activities in 2006 was capacity strengthening. IRC believes that capacity constraints are a major hurdle in...Published on: 24/03/2014
2007 was a year in which a number of major changes were successfully concluded. The most important were the legal disengagement from the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the adoption of a new governance structure with a new Supervisory Board and the start of a new...Published on: 24/03/2014
Read the IRC's Annual Report from 2008, our 40th anniversary and the theme of this report. In between information, on our programmes, projects and IRC governance, find timelines that give you a perspective on IRC's contribution in the last 40 years: events, organisations, partnerships and projects...Published on: 24/03/2014
IRC and its staff facilitate a gamut of innovative research and learning support services with the aim of generating and sharing WASH related information. The Annual Report 2009 highlights the IRC's achievements and the significant steps the organisation has taken in the areas of resource...Published on: 24/03/2014
In this 2010 Annual Report we share our analysis of the most important trends in the WASH sector and IRC's response to these trends. These trends include aid effectiveness and the sector wide approach, financing the sector, sustainability of rural water supply, decentralisation, governance and...El InterWATER tesauro ha sido compilado por el IRC y sus socios en 2008. Read more...
Ceci est le thésaurus InterWATER, agencé par l'IRC et ses partenaires en 2008. Read more...
A learning 'sector' is one that engages in continuous learning and reflection and is thus able to adapt to changing circumstances and demands. Read more...
A comical Ugandan advert promoting the use of clean toilets called Kayonjos.
Read more...World Water Day is this year celebrated on March 22 under the theme "Water and Energy". In this Ugandan newspaper article, IRC Uganda explains why attention should be given to the waste of human energy due to a lack of investment in long-term services. Read more...
'Each year World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video shows how stakeholder cooperation enhances water facilities.
Read more...LA HAYE, le 18 mars 2014 – La Fondation Conrad N. Hilton a accordé 3 millions de dollars à l'IRC – une organisation de référence œuvrant pour l'accès universel à des services d'eau adéquats. L'objectif de cet investissement est d'assurer d'ici trois ans l'accès à des services d'eau pérennes pour 1,... Read more...
Last week it was World Water Day 2014 , with the topic of "water and energy". I see obvious issues coming by on the water-energy nexus (which by the way is one of those development sector buzz words that I start disliking more every day. I hope the next buzz word is a bit more, uh, sparkling), such... Read more...
How often do you start something, and forget about it? This has been the harsh reality in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector for many years. Pumps break down, water stops flowing, money is wasted. To combat this short-term planning, IRC developed an elegant and simple tool: the... Read more...
THE HAGUE, 20 March 2014 – IRC announced today that they will be an exhibitor at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair: India event which will be co-hosted by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in March 2014. IRC will showcase the WASHCost... Read more...
IRC will present its WASHCost calculator at a fair showcasing innovations in the sanitation sector. Read more...
Great inequalities in water and sanitation service provision persist in the region. We work in partnership to accelerate the drive towards universal and sustainable access to sanitation, hygiene and water services. Read more...