The lack of clearly delineated roles can undermine sustainable services at scale. Read more...
AlJazeera’s "Inside story" will take an in-depth look at water and sanitation, and will have Patrick Moriarty, IRC’s International programme director and Triple-S director, as a panelist. Tune in on 8 March 2012 at 17:30 GMT. Watch your local Al Jazeera news station , or check out Al Jazeera’s live... Read more...
Who says traditional African community mobilisation approaches have died out? The application of the Omuhiigo approach to the Community Based Management System (CBMS) of water sources in Kabarole district, is a good case of the revival of seemingly-forgotten traditional community mobilisation... Read more...
Resource Centres and their networks can play a vital role in documenting lessons and making information flow in the sector for governance and service delivery. IRC has worked with and supported WASH resource centre networks since the 1990s. The PSO programme helped IRC work with resource centre... Read more...
¿Cómo será el sector de agua, saneamiento e higiene (WASH – siglas en inglés) a nivel internacional dentro de, digamos, unos 10 años?, ¿Continuará el saneamiento estando rezagado con respecto al abastecimiento de agua o evolucionará hasta convertirse en un subsector autónomo con sus propias... Read more...
Watch this video to learn more about the different approaches to sector learning by IRC partners and learn more about the thematic groups to strengthen sector learning in Honduras, explained by Melina Pineda from RAS-HON. Read more...
IRC supports five WASH resource centre networks: CREPA in Burkina Faso, Resource Centre Network Ghana, SAWA in Uganda, Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) in Nepal and RASHON in Honduras. With financial support from PSO IRC has organised capacity building and events. Read more...
Triple-S Ghana is working with the Inter-agency Coordinating Committee (ICC) to strengthen water and sanitation sector learning in the Northern Region. The Inter-agency Coordinating Committee is convened by the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme in collaboration with the Northern Regional... Read more...
Binnen de drinkwater- en sanitatie sector zijn in de afgelopen jaren veel ervaringen – positieve en negatieve - opgedaan met zogenaamde learning alliances. Dit zijn platforms met een expliciete focus op innovatie, gezamenlijke kennisontwikkeling en het gebruik van kennis ter ondersteuning van... Read more...
IRC and the National network of resource centres from Burkina Faso (RCR-BF is its French acronym) jointly carried out an investigation around current information and knowledge practices in the WASH sector in Burkina Faso. Read more...
The WASH Process Documentation Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda in September 2011, was successful in encouraging participants to become more enthusiastic about process documentation and its benefits. Process Documentation provides a systematic way to capture what happens in a process of change, and... Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...
Any learning process must be effective. In Ghana, the learning process in the water and sanitation sector is extensive and devolved, as it should be. But there is an important gap. A structured mechanism is needed to channel lessons from the communities, learning alliances, and other learning fora... Read more...
IRC has developed a training course From Water Infrastructure to Water Services That Last | Putting it into Practice about the practical application of the concepts of a service delivery approach and the life-cycle costs approach for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Read more...
Why, despite concerted efforts by governments, donors, and NGOs, do nearly a billion people still lack safe water? Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
A training workshop held in Poland introduced water specialists, researchers and professionals working on other development issues to 'process documentation', an approach to document and jointly learn from change processes. Read more...
IRC ran the RCD Programme in over 18 countries. An overview of the programme is provided here. Read more...
