Water and sanitation remain a priority for the Dutch Government. For the coming years 100 million dollars a year has been budgeted to improve access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) promotion. Read more...
The developments in the sanitation sector are moving quickly. We are seeing some interesting new further development within the sector emerging. As cited in the last blog on the Uganda Unclogging the blockages of sanitation workshop, there is a new wave of freshness in the air in which we see the... Read more...
THE HAGUE, 28 April 2014 – IRC has launched a new website – www.ircwash.org – to promote the development of effective and sustainable water and sanitation services. IRC is targeting its new website and expertise at the failings of short-term, charity-based interventions and promoting the... Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 3 million to IRC to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in 13 rural districts in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
The record of the WASHTech December 2013-webinar on the validation, introduction and scaling up of water and sanitation technologies in a country or a given local area. Read more...
With your creativity we want to break the silence about toilets and sanitation in India! Read more...
Sanitation professionals look at ways of improving public and private sanitation service delivery. Read more...
Video illustrating the challenge facing technology to provide sustainable water services. Read more...
“Why bother about WASH technologies? Current discourse is on sustainable service delivery monitoring and governance. Many WASH technologies, such as the India Mark II handpump and the VIP latrine, were successfully adopted and have improved the lives of millions. However, not all promising WASH... Read more...
The WASHTech project in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda is in its second year of implementation. The key activities of 2012 are to conduct a technology assessment by using the “Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)” currently under development and to document changes resulting from stakeholder... Read more...