Community-based service providers need regular, structured support that goes beyond ad hoc technical assistance. Read more...
Public-private partnerships potentially harness market incentives to improve service delivery and leverage private capital for investment costs. Read more...
Briefing note on the need to shift from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness to make aid effective at the local level. Read more...
What makes a good monitoring system? They feed into local level planning and decision-making, are realistically designed with existing resource... Read more...
Professionalisation of community based-management means moving away from the voluntary provision of water services towards a philosophy of service... Read more...
This briefing note focuses on the sector wide approach (SWAp), highlighting the problems a SWAp aims to address, the benefits of a SWAp, key... Read more...
This paper takes a hard look at the limited achievements of the rural water sector, points to areas where approaches need to be radically improved... Read more...
This review paper was prepared by IRC at the request of the Directorate of International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the... Read more...