How combining Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and market-based approaches can help. Read more...
Enormous progress has been made in reducing open defecation in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the quality of sanitation facilities remains a big challenge and a serious health concern. Read more...
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale. Read more...
The Sanitation Challenge for Ghana contest rewards transformational city-wide sanitation services. Read more...
Banker Naina Lal Kidwai is our guest in the latest WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
You may have heard of the Lord of the Rings, but in Bihar, India, that name is taking on a whole new meaning. I recently joined a field visit to this part of the world to see how cement ring businesses are changing the face of rural sanitation. Read more...
Indian sanitation entrepreneur Mayank Midha one year later. Read more...
The World Bank in Ethiopia has commissioned a rapid survey of what motivates people to upgrade their latrines, with the aim of delivering behaviour change communication materials with greater impact. Read more...
Building on the lessons of the Sanitation Innovation Accelerator Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge offer entrepreneurs a platform to scale innovations. Read more...
Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge offer entrepreneurs in India a platform to scale rural sanitation innovations. Read more...
The SuSanA Forum hosts nominees for the Sarphati Sanitation Award for Young Entrepreneurs 2015 Read more...
Communities have an important role to play in sustainable services. In this blog, I present personal highlights reflections from the session on Community-Led Approaches to change in Africa at World Water Week in Stockholm. Read more...
What do we need to make a business out of sanitation. Read more...
IRC is part of the Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking 2014 - a joint initiative with Dutch (Aqua for All, Simavi, WASTE) and international (BMGF, Euromoney, Water and Sanitation Program - World Bank and the World Toilet Organisation) organisations. The Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking... Read more...
A new initiative is launched to stimulate investment in large-scale sanitation services for the poor Read more...
Sanitation professionals look at ways of improving public and private sanitation service delivery. Read more...
The 'Value at the end of the Sanitation Value-chain' (VeSV) project aims to develop and adopt business models for a low cost, safe method for the collection and processing of faecal sludge from pit latrines; a method that can be operated by local entrepreneurs and results in the production of a... Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...