Since the first ever International Conference On MHM was hosted in Uganda in August 2014, there have been unrelenting efforts to break the silence on menstruation and address the subject more openly. Most recently, the MHM Coalition in Uganda committed to continue promoting the right of girls and... Read more...
“People are developing a taste for healthy living. They want improvement‑compared to us and what we are doing, they want better.” Md Amin Uddin one of the elders in Arua village in Keshabpur upazila, Jessore district, Bangladesh is optimistic about the future. Read more...
In Bangladesh is de grootste NGO van de wereld, BRAC, hard op weg om goede sanitaire voorzieningen te krijgen voor iedereen. IRC werkt met hen samen in één van de grootste sanitaire programma's ter wereld. In dit interview vertelt IRC sanitatie expert Ingeborg Krukkert haar verhaal over haar werk... Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
BRAC WASH was launched as an integrated programme with hygiene, sanitation and water as complementary elements, focused on underprivileged groups,... Read more...
This briefing note introduces WaterAid's advocacy campaign "Healthy Start on improving the health and nutrition of newborn babies and children... Read more...
IRC country director of India Kurian Baby on how to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Clean India, and what he wishes for his country in 2015. Read more...
Strategies to promote open defecation free (ODF) communities in Nepal's Terai region. Read more...
While the importance of hygiene is increasingly being recognized, far less consideration has been given to the role of the complete WASH package in... Read more...
Les programmes d'assainissement se concentrent en général sur la construction d'ouvrages, au détriment d'une promotion soutenue pour leur usage. Or, cette dernière peut faire plus pour la santé que n'importe quelle construction. N'importe quelle? Et si certains ouvrages favorisaient l'adoption de... Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
What about looking deep into on-going WASH programmes and analysing their strengths and weaknesses? What about designing innovative ways of measuring the effectiveness of these approaches? And what about testing adjustments to their activities to make the interventions even more effective? Read more...
How can the health and the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sectors work together to reduce worm reinfection in Bangladesh. Read more...
La Côte d'Ivoire s'engage à promouvoir l'auto-initiation de sa population au lavage des mains au savon grâce au dispositif HANDINET Visiodev. Le dispositif a été présenté lors du « Tool fair » du WASH sustainability Forum 2014 (Amsterdam, 30 juin - 1 juillet 2014). Read more...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
WEDC published a guide on "Managing hygiene promotion in WASH programmes" to support implementers in monitoring hygienic behaviours. Read more...