Some key changes in the enabling environment could lead to significant growth in the sanitation market. Read more...
Lessons from the WASH First COVID-19 Response Project equipping youths with marketable skills in Negelle Arsi and Shashamane districts. Read more...
USAID Transform WASH teams up with Government of Ethiopia partners to visit Wore Illu Woreda. Read more...
In the wake of Hurricane Eta, IRC and Water For People support government appeal and call for immediate action to restore a decade's worth of water and sanitation development in Honduras Read more...
On 30 June 2020, WaterAid India and the Urban Management Centre held a webinar on the health, safety and livelihood challenges sanitation workers face in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
The same capacities that help us adapt to COVID-19 can be used to face climate change. Read more...
Bongo district is increasing its reliance on small town water systems to provide safe water in areas where the population is more concentrated. Deep boreholes provide water to storage tanks and standpipes across the area – with the potential also to make household connections. Read more...
Asaloko is a small community in the Bongo district where lives have been transformed through the introduction of safe water and effective sanitation. Householders no longer carry water long distances, children are better able to learn and the whole environment has been cleaned up. Read more...
Asutifi North is making giant strides in providing water services for its citizens – but progress on sanitation is proving much harder and slower. Read more...
Providing water and sanitation services to people who live in rural areas or informal settlements or simply aren’t connected to pipes is a complex business. Needlessly so. Social distancing? Queuing for water in Sahel Region of Burkina Faso. Photo: IRC Burkina Faso Read more...
Interview with David DeArmey of Water for Good about using IRC tools in a fragile context. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
A cause d'instabilité au Burkina Faso, l'accès à l'eau potable et à l'assainissement est faible dans le Sahel et le Nord. Read more...
Lean government needs a lean private sector to deliver safe water and sanitation to everyone. Both are part of an effective public system. Read more...
Why even social entrepreneurs need strong government. Read more...
Humanitarian WASH emergencies outlast the initial phase and turn into longer-term WASH programmes so development and humanitarian aid need to work together. Read more...
Quality WASH training is only given to state level officials while training at lower levels is sub-standard and sparse. Read more...
Half of the sales agents in the USAID Transform WASH project in Ethiopia are women. Read more...
A new global guidance document on the District-Wide Approach. Read more...