Governments and development partners must significantly strengthen post-construction support and test and evaluate alternative models for managing... Read more...
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) must take local context and existing reporting systems into account. Read more...
Models where a service provider is committed to responsiveness and designs an in-house fault-reporting and maintenance system show greater... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
This factsheet presents a summary of the key findings relating to sustainability challenges in town water supply, rural water supply, urban and rural... Read more...
The results of a sustainability check, monitoring service delivery in towns, satellite villages and institutions that are targeted in the ONEWASH... Read more...
Results of an initiative to monitor sustainability factors in towns in Ethiopia. Read more...
Everyone in Digambarpur has access to a basic level of water service thanks to support model that allows w ater committees to outsource technical... Read more...
"We went back to where it all started: the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa," says IRC's Ton Schouten. This week the monitoring book ' From Infrastructure to Services' was launched in Ethiopia. In the coming 4 years, IRC will keep supporting the... Read more...
One of the nicest water-related customs in Honduras is the breaking of the pot. When a village gets connected to a water system, part of the inauguration ceremony consists of an old woman from the village symbolically throwing a clay water-pot on the ground, so that it breaks. She will never need... Read more...
IRC was asked by DGIS to support the Netherlands Enterprise Agency with the introduction of sustainability instruments as part of the second round of the Sustainable Water Fund. Another example of how DGIS is taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously. Read more...
Sustainability instruments contribute to better water, sanitation of hygiene (WASH) projects but still face shortcomings. Read more...
Background note prepared for the IRC event on the 4th of March 2015. Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
Sustainable groundwater use is more likely in Indian villages if farmers, other village community members and NGOs work together with researchers and... Read more...