Action research in the BRAC WASH II programme focuses on six issues: sanitation in areas with high groundwater tables, secondary sludge treatment, low-cost water supply technologies, saline intrusion, monitoring and pit latrine sludge processing. Read more...
La qualité des eaux usées déversées dans les égouts et le collecteur principal du réseau d'assainissement de la vallée du M'Zab (Daya Ben Dahoua, Ghardaïa, Bounoura et El Ateuf) ne répond plus aux critères des eaux à épurer par une station de lagunage conçue uniquement pour le traitement des eaux... Read more...
Comment améliorer les principes d’intégrité dans le secteur à savoir la transparence, la redevabilité et la participation ? Tel était l’objectif de cet atelier organisé par le Réseau d’intégrité de l’eau (WIN) et le Centre sous régional des ressources en eau de la CEDEAO du 24 au 28 Juin 2013. Read more...
The 36th WEDC conference that took place from 1 - 5 of July in Nakuru, Kenya, was the first opportunity for IRC to launch its "West Africa Learning and Exchange workshop". This learning event will take place in Cotonou, Benin, from 12th - 14th of November 2013. Read more...
For decades, progress in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has been measured primarily in terms of new infrastructure—pumps, pipes, taps and toilets. Sustainability of water and sanitation, if addressed at all, meant the sustainability of this infrastructure, rather than of the... Read more...
Goal: Improved inter-sectoral dialogue and planning alignment Desired outcome: By 2016, the departments, agencies and private sector organisations that play a central role in sustaining WASH service delivery in rural and urban areas (e.g., local government, energy, health and education) will better... Read more...
Goal: Improved aid effectiveness Desired outcome: By 2016, major donors will be largely committed to harmonise and align the financing of service delivery with country-defined frameworks for country-specific service delivery models. Non-traditional and non-state actors (including international NGOs... Read more...
Goal: The adoption by the sector of a strong learning and adaptive approach to service delivery Desired outcome: By 2016, learning and adaptive management will be widely accepted as core elements of good practice in service provision. Read more...
Goal: The adoption by the WASH sector of a service delivery approach. Desired outcome: By 2016, the dominant paradigm in use at the international level will be based on the delivery of services rather than the construction of infrastructure. Targets for water and sanitation will be expressed in... Read more...
From testing monitoring service delivery indicators and tools in 3 pilot districts by the CWSA and Triple-S to applying monitoring at scale in 64 Ghanaian districts, one quarter of the country. That is what will happen in the framework of SMARTerWASH in the coming 3 years. Read more...
“Why bother about WASH technologies? Current discourse is on sustainable service delivery monitoring and governance. Many WASH technologies, such as the India Mark II handpump and the VIP latrine, were successfully adopted and have improved the lives of millions. However, not all promising WASH... Read more...
Technology Applicability Framework - a tool for assessing applicability and scalability of WASH technologies Read more...