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Stockholm World Water Week 2024 brought significant knowledge exchange around innovative solutions and ongoing global, national and local practices that work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Read more...
On Wednesday 2nd October, the Dutch Parliament, the Tweede Kamer, had a meeting about water as part of its international development and cooperation portfolio. The Commission on International Trade and Development Aid met with three representatives from the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP). IRC... Read more...
The power of partnerships. Report of an end-of-programme workshop and a WASH Debate. Read more...
What we can learn from Ghana Read more...
Het is tijd voor 'nieuwe waterambities'. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
A guest blogger's report of discussions at a Max Foundation-IRC event. Read more...
Leverage is needed to create conditions for scale, say Dutch NGOs. Read more...
The King's speech marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year. This year he drew attention to the important position of the Netherlands in the international water sector. The budgets that were presented alongside the speech also reflect this, notably with a 6% increase for the budget for WASH... Read more...
IRC was asked by DGIS to support the Netherlands Enterprise Agency with the introduction of sustainability instruments as part of the second round of the Sustainable Water Fund. Another example of how DGIS is taking sustainability of investments in the WASH sector seriously. Read more...
The good and the bad of the Dutch government aid and trade approach to development in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
Next week, the Dutch parliament will discuss the multi-annual collaboration plans for its bilateral development cooperation with some 15 partner countries. This could be a pretty dull and technical affair, were it not for the fact that these plans give an interesting insight into what the end of... Read more...
Volgende week zal de Tweede Kamer de meerjarige samenwerkingsplannen bespreken voor bilaterale ontwikkelingssamenwerking met zo’n 15 partner landen. Het zou een behoorlijk saaie en technische aangelegenheid kunnen worden, ware het niet dat deze plannen een interessante blik werpen op het tijdperk... Read more...
This meeting at the Netherlands Embassy in Addis was a very special one, for a number of reasons. Read more...
Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of buzz in the WASH sector on the sustainability clause that DGIS seeks to include in its contacts with implementers. The pros and cons of this have been widely debated . A key component of the clauses is to have sustainability checks as a way to... Read more...
Driven amongst others by the mobile phone applications, more and more statistics are becoming available on the state of water services. These go well beyond the coverage data we were used to in the JMP reports (and which this year gave us some reason to be mildly optimistic). The new stats provide... Read more...
Huge access gains but a limited impact on health and sustainability are the mixed results of Dutch aid in a two-decade aid programme. Read more...
Ministerial delegations from 40 countries have announced serious commitments to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis. Read more...
The overall objective of the exposure visit and seminar was to expose the participants from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and the Slovak... Read more...
