New date! Please note that this workshop was originally to be held on 17-20 November 2015. Due to political unrest in Nepal it has been postponed to 23-26 February 2016. The Multiple-Use water Services (MUS) Group will hold its next workshop in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop is is organised jointly... Read more...
The sixth SACOSAN will be hosted by Bangladesh from 11-13 January 2016 in Dhaka with motto of: "Better Sanitation, Better life" South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN), a government led biennial convention held on a rotational basis in each SAARC country, provides a platform for interaction... Read more...
The Amsterdam International Water Week (AIWW) is the platform for new alliances and fresh ideas: connecting industry, science, business, policy and technology. The event crosses borders between water and sanitation, delta technology, food, agriculture, finance and governance. Thus bringing together... Read more...
What are the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of ICT-based reporting to improve rural water supply sustainability? Find out by joining a webinar on Tuesday 8 September, from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CEST, that will look into the potentials and pitfalls of using ICTs in the water and... Read more...
This year's World Toilet Day will draw attention to the need for better sanitation to improve health and nutrition for everyone, everywhere. It will also serve as an important global reminder that #wecantwait for 2.4 billion people to gain access to improved sanitation. Read more...
Bringing together research with policy, practice and networking events Where Science Meets Policy, organized by The Water Institute at UNC, considers drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis. IRC... Read more...
Why do we need a specific focus on sanitation in urban areas? In its assessment of the achievement of the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals, the Joint Monitoring Programme notes that the world has fallen short of its sanitation targets. Still some 2.4 billion people lack access to... Read more...
IRC is preparing several sessions for the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm from 23 - 28 August 2015. An IRC delegation will attend: IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty; IRC Burkina Faso Country Director Juste Nansi; Head International and Innovation Programme Catarina Fonseca, Coordinator of Research... Read more...
This event aims at sketching out a change agenda and describes what is needed to go to scale. Worldwide there are several successful social enterprises that are providing safe water via water kiosks, chlorine dispensors, decentralised chlorine production or production and sales of household water... Read more...
Side event on Financing Universal Access to Water and Sanitation Services by 2030. 15th of July 2015 10.00-12.30 The 2015 Global Risks report of the World Economic Forum identifies the occurrence of 'Water Crises' as the number one global risk in terms of impact and number eight in terms of... Read more...
Ghana was one of the 50+ countries selected to host national consultations to contribute to defining potential priorities for the Post-2015 Development Agenda, as well to reflect on issues of implementation and the 'how', while drawing lessons for localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (... Read more...
Join WASH Advocates, Global Water Challenge, IRC, and Aguaconsult for a three-part webinar series as we explore ways to move beyond just reporting and turn our data into action 30 June, using data for political action If you've ever pondered how you could unleash the power of all those spreadsheets... Read more...
Venue : IRC Sponsored by DGIS IRC in collaboration with WASTE and PLAN NL Purpose : This roundtable discussion is to reflect on Urban Led Community Total Sanitation (ULCTS) and how it fits in line with urban sanitation and its potential impact. Time slot Programme 13:30-13:35 Welcome (IRC) 13:35-13... Read more...
The second SuSanA thematic discussion “Urban Sanitation Finance – from Macro to Micro Level” will start on Tuesday 23 June on the SuSanA Discussion Forum. The discussion will look at financing sanitation in the urban area from different angels – What are current levels of public finance at national... Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague. Ms Brouwer is captain of team SCA, the only all-female boat participating in the Volvo Ocean Race. The boat's sponsor SCA is a global hygiene company that includes sanitary... Read more...
IRC focuses its efforts on processes of change in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector towards more sustainable and cost-effective service delivery. However, the adoption of promising approaches and good practices in such processes often remains limited, as a result of factors such as:... Read more...
To have lasting impact over time and after USAID's assistance ends, WASH programs need to factor in sustainability during planning, design, implementation and monitoring. USAID's Heather Skilling and Rochelle Rainey will host this webinar on the nature of sustainable WASH services; factors of... Read more...
Upcoming meeting WASH and ICT: Leveraging the Data Stream will be held in Washington, DC on May 14 and 15. This meeting will explore opportunities for the WASH sector to harness the capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve water services. Read more...
The RWSN e-discussion on local government, is co-organized together with IRC, WaterAid, IADB, SKAT and Water for People. The e-discussion will be kicked off on 27 April on the sustainable services D-Group of RWSN and will run for four weeks, with each week focusing on a specific topic. The first... Read more...
Whilst the new ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are being finalised, an equally important discussion is going on: how do we finance their achievement? Addis Ababa is hosting a UN Financing for Development conference from 13 to 16 July 2015 on this topic. In preparation for the... Read more...