Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.

This paper presents lessons learnt on improving learning in the WASH sector through resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal... Read more...

Last week it was World Water Day 2014 , with the topic of "water and energy". I see obvious issues coming by on the water-energy nexus (which by the way is one of those development sector buzz words that I start disliking more every day. I hope the next buzz word is a bit more, uh, sparkling), such... Read more...

The WASHTech project may be over but the importance of choosing the right technology remains. Read more...

Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...

The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a comprehensive assessment of sustainability indicators and considers the perspectives of technology users, producers and those introducing a technology. Read more...

A conceptual framework for using information and communication technologies to improve service delivery in the rural water sector. Read more...

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre's WASHCost project has released an animation that has been created to help us understand how the life-cycle costs and the service delivered are connected. The life-cycle cost approach can be used to increase financial sustainability and to stop the... Read more...