Some 50 representatives from towns and regional bureaus participated in the small-town WASH symposium on 3 December at the GetFam hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. They were joined online by some 30 stakeholders from national and international level during the morning session, focussed on... Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
Water-related emotional distress is predominantly associated with the 'cost of water' and the 'size of household'. Read more...
This presentation describes IRC's Asset Registry Assessment Tool and how Water For People used it in Rwanda's Rulindo district. Read more...
While a high proportion of people In Ethiopian have access to improved water and sanitation services, only a small minority receive services that... Read more...
20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk. Read more...
Top-down efforts are ineffective for connecting low-income urban populations to centralised water, sanitation or electricity services. Bottom up,... Read more...
IRC has compiled a growing repository of tools and guidance for strengthening WASH service delivery. 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...
Using numbers in local planning for water resources and services helps stakeholders to make (conflicting) interests clearer and choices more explicit. Read more...
This paper takes a hard look at the limited achievements of the rural water sector, points to areas where approaches need to be radically improved... Read more...