Head of corporate communications | Change hub
Petra is a proud member of IRC's Communications and Influencing Team. In her role as head of corporate communications she is committed to make IRC's mission 'water and sanitation for all' resonate and generate action, across the boundaries of the water and sanitation sector's silos. Her motto: less is more, cut the crap and let's work. Petra has been with IRC since 2003.
The Triple-S Initiative was conceived in 2009 with the aim of contributing towards improved sustainability of rural water supply services. This video tells the story of the Triple-S Initiative in Uganda.
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Roel Martens, Senior Advisor at the Directorate-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Joop Colsen, Founder of Colsen BV, shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Wout Korving, co-founder and senior advisor of RebelGroup, shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Sascha Gabizon, Director WECF, shares her perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014
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IRC's Patrick Moriarty shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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If you could start from scratch and design a new WASH sustainability tool, what would it look like? Participants from the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum share their ideas on the principles of their ideal WASH sustainability tool. The 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum brought together over 150 participants from nearly 30 countries to discuss concrete approaches to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sustainability. The Forum took place in Amsterdam, on 30 June and 1 July.
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Vida Duti, leading the Triple-S project in Ghana, talks about the importance of monitoring water services to plan and direct investments. Triple-S Ghana has worked on functionality mapping using FLOW.
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Self-supply is a huge market. Tens of thousands of households in Ethiopia have already made their own investments in their private water supplies. MFIs can make a huge difference if they would support households with small loans to improve their family wells.
Read more...The WAS-RoPSS project, or the 'rope pump project' is working towards the development of guidelines for the standardisation of rope pump manufacturing. Read more...