Ruchika Shiva is the Acting Director of the IRC's South Asia Regional Programme. In her present role she has been actively involved in building IRC’s programme in the Asia region. She has been contributing to and leading programmes and assignments in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India and Nepal with bilateral, multilaterals and other development organisations.
Ruchika has a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi (India). Ruchika has over 19 years of experience in the development sector, with over 10 years focussed on water and sanitation. Prior to this, she worked with Plan International and other implementing organisations on issues related to women and child rights.
Ruchika is interested in strengthening institutions at administrative levels to ensure improved services in communities, with a focus on households from marginalised communities.
Systems strengthening for improved hand hygiene Read more...
Strengthening institutions is key to sustainable services Read more...
Report of an August 2020 webinar with representatives from national, state and local government and civil society. Read more...
Through source security, service provision and waste management, the state of Bihar has used a holistic approach to ensure sustainability of services. Read more...
IRC has worked for over four decades in India and will continue to do so as outlined in our latest strategy. Read more...
Working papers focusing on the institutional setup and financial flows for WASH in Bihar and Odisha. Read more...
New project helps local government make their cities open defecation free. Read more...
Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
The Sanitation Innovation Accelerator attracts and supports market-driven innovations in rural sanitation with a sustainable and scalable business model. Read more...
The challenge of making India open defecation free through WASH Dialogues Read more...