Former IRC focus country | 2007-2023
I have written before about our work on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) in Honduras. The idea is to look into the real costs of investment programmes and projects in Honduras, so see which intervention model is the most cost-effective. Read more...
Seminario organizado por el FHIS y el IRC sobre homologación de modelos de intervención y el uso de datos de costos. Read more...
Just as Orpheus descended into the underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back to life, the water sector invests heavily in bringing broken-down water supply systems back into function; often to find those same systems slipping back into disuse, as soon as the engineers turn their head to look away... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
On 25 October 2011, IRC together with other SWA partners in Honduras conducted a meeting to inform the Honduran WASH sector on the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) global partnership and to seek the country’s interest to engage with this global partnership and to participate in the next biennial... Read more...
Developing capacity and leveraging investment are two necessary factors for sustainable water service delivery. But understanding costs beyond the infrastructure stage is also a crucial building block for ensuring indefinite water flow. World Water Corps® Manager, Andrew Britton, explains how Water... Read more...
Long and short case studies, in Spanish, have relevant lessons for the WASH sector, and for those who aim to achieve greater impact Read more...
El IRC contribuyó a la creación del grupo temático de transparencia de la Red de Agua y Saneamiento de Honduras (RAS-HON). Este grupo hizo una sistematización de buenas prácticas de transparencia en el manejo de servicios de agua, como insumo para la elaboración de un manual sobre transparencia,... Read more...
Water For People adopted the "Everyone, Forever" approach. IRC carried out a case study to learn lessons on scaling-up rural water and sanitation services. Read more...
This video tells the story of the approach of Everyone, Forever, followed by Water For People in the municipality of Chinda, Honduras. Water For People has tried to achieve 100% coverage in rural WASH in this municipality, and to set up institutional capacity to maintain that coverage. In September... Read more...
“ We just take the programmes as they fall upon us, with their conditions. One donor uses a per capita threshold of 150 US$/capita and wants us to follow one approach, and we will do that. Another uses a threshold of 250 US$/day, but with another approach, and a different degree of community... Read more...
El trabajo aquí desarrollado constituye un esfuerzo para identificar acciones dirigidas a garantizar la Prestación de Servicios Sostenibles a Escala, más conocida como Triple-S por sus iniciales en inglés. Read more...
Chinda is a small rural municipality, of some 5000 people, spread out over 15 hamlets in Western Honduras. This week I had the opportunity to carry out a case study of the work of the NGO Water For People (WFP) in this municipality. Read more...
Cities in Latin America face a double challenge in environmental sanitation, of both providing access to basic water supply and sanitation for those currently lacking that, and improving the collection and treatment of wastewater and solid waste. Governance is a crucial factor affecting the way in... Read more...
List of papers and authors This list contains the titles (translated into Englih) of the papers and their authors of the seminar on sanitation and governance, organised by IRC together with RRAS-CA Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES ( Red de Agua y Saneamiento de El... Read more...
List of presenters and presentations This list contains the presentors and the titles of the presentations (translated into English) of the seminar on sanitation and governance, organised by IRC together with RRAS-CA (Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES (Red de Agua y... Read more...
Guía para ingenieros, técnicos y otros profesionales del sector, responsable para o participando en la planificación e implementación de sistemas de... Read more...