6th Africa Water Week (AWW-6), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Achieving Universal Access and Equitable Access to Water and Sanitation for All, Sub theme 1 Convenor: IRC Co-convenors: Africa Joint WASH learning initiative members: Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Rural Water... Read more...
Intern Jimmy Otim realised his passion for WASH in Uganda's Lira District. Read more...
Read IRC's literature review on approaches to driving whole system change in the effort to achieve sustainable water services for everyone. Read more...
Exploring the effects of different ways in which a policy can evolve through collaboration in a social system. Read more...
Learning and sharing between WASH sectors in West and Central Africa Read more...
How can I conceptualise and model learning in the rural water supply system in Uganda? Read more...
Creating the capacity to adapt and innovate within national water, sanitation and hygiene sectors Read more...
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically. Read more...
UNICEF and IRC start partnership to improve learning in WASH for better services in West and Central Africa Read more...
Join for a three-part webinar series as we explore ways to move beyond just reporting and turn our data into action. Read more...
Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
This experiment consisted of a study to assess the significance, efficacy and sustainability of the learning alliance approach in influencing learning and adaptive capacity in the rural water sector in Ghana. Read more...
IRC/Triple-S Uganda has worked with the Ministry of Water and Environment to develop a learning and coordination model aimed at improving continuous joint learning throughout the rural water sector to promote innovations and address underlying challenges of service delivery. Read more...
The 2014 update on Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water (WHO and UNICEF, 2014) mentions that between 1990 and 2012, open defecation decreased from 24 per cent to 14 per cent globally. However, the update also states that more than one third of the global population – some 2.5 billion people —... Read more...
Experience in Uganda reveals the importance of continuous learning and reflection for providing water services that last. Read more...
Triple-S has been leading a process of active innovation and experimentation in Ghana (as well as in other countries). This involves running a number of experiments (five in Ghana and seven in Uganda) spanning the range of areas where innovative approaches to current challenges have been identified. Read more...
Triple-S has been leading a process of active innovation and experimentation in Uganda (as well as in other countries). This involves running a number of experiments spanning the range of areas where innovative approaches to current challenges have been identified. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
IRC and partners have supported the government of Sierra Leone in launching an initiative for learning in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. A sector learning framework has been developed in consultation with sector players. Now leadership and commitment are needed to move sector learning... Read more...
Sierra Leone's Ministry of Water Resources and Ministry of Health and Sanitation have spearheaded learning and better coordination in the sector to achieve national water and sanitation targets.Translating high-level commitment into daily practice takes determination, time and skills. Read more...