In India, 4 billion dollars are annually invested in the rural drinking water sector. Hand pumps, pipes and overhead systems are supplied. But in many villages, sufficient clean drinking water is still far from being an everyday reality. The WASHCost India team gathered data on government investments in water, sanitation and hygiene in 187 villages. The data is used so that government can do proper planning for each of the budget components, against the available funds.
Read more...So said Luis Romero of CONASA (the Honduran water and sanitation policy-making body), in response to the graphs below. Read more...
The Triple-S initiative is about taking the best international thinking available, combining it with extensive Ugandan knowledge and expertise, and adapting it to the situation on the ground. There is a lot that the Ugandan water sector is doing well, and Triple-S is taking these positive examples... Read more...
The Community Water and Sanitation Agency (CWSA) is leading Triple-S in Ghana in partnership with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre . Read more...
Les 10 et 11 juin 2013, le Centre International de l’Eau et de l’Assainissement, IRC, organisera, à Ouagadougou, un atelier sur le monitoring des services publics d’eau potable, en milieux rural et semi-urbain. L’atelier regroupera des professionnels dans la gestion des services d’eau ruraux et l’... Read more...
Les 10 et 11 juin 2013, le Centre International de l'Eau et de l'Assainissement, IRC, organisera, à Ouagadougou, un atelier sur le monitoring des services publics d'eau potable, en milieux rural et semi-urbain . L'atelier regroupera des professionnels dans la gestion des services d’eau ruraux et l’... Read more...
Delft Symposium session takes capacity building as its central theme. Read more...
IRC welcomes the final report of the UN High Level Panel (HLP), which puts forward recommendations for post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While we are happy that the report includes an ambitious goal of universal access to water and sanitation by 2030, it is disappointing that it lacks... Read more...