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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded $7.5 million to the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA) over five years to improve access to water services for more than 500,000 people in communities and institutions. Read more...
Planning is the WASH systems building block that involves budgeting and the determination of costs and financing details. Planning for WASH systems requires strategic (long-term) and annual (activities and routine costs) planning as well as project planning for infrastructure development. Read more...
Monitoring is one of the key building blocks for an effective WASH system, which generates the information and feedback that facilitate adaptive change and well as planning and regulation. Read more...
A four-year investment phase targets communities with no water service at all and those with limited water service. Read more...
The Kabarole master plan articulates the long-term (2018-2030) WASH priorities of the District to ensure safe water and sanitation for everyone. Read more...
Asutifi North District is one of 2000 entries for the 2019 SDG Action Awards Read more...
The communes of Bérégadougou and Niangoloko have joined the select group of Burkinabé communes that have a WASH master plan Read more...
On the whole, stakeholder monitoring tends to be disjointed, with the diverse actors failing to coalesce their efforts around a common set of indicators. And there is a conspicuous lack of regulation of the rural water sector. Read more...
Stakeholders from local government, NGOs and private sector meet to finalise district master plan. Read more...
Local authorities are committed to developing strategic WASH plans for the 2030 horizon Read more...
The District Based Full Coverage start-up initiative was launched with Asutifi North District as the selected district. Read more...
IRC and the Safe Water Network are piloting a sustainable service delivery approach at district level. Read more...
IRC has been awarded a US$ 1 million grant to develop a fourteen year programme. Read more...
How do you set up a reliable water supply system when an area is facing ten months of extreme drought every year? How do you make sure that the one thing that matters, your cattle, stay alive? "You start planning for the worst." Read more...
Former president of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki, officially launched the Millennium Water Alliance-Kenya strategic plan last week in Nairobi and called for efficient and effective water governance. IRC is a partner in the Millennium Water Alliance. Read more...
IRC and the Ministry for Water, Hydraulic Infrastructure and Sanitation of Burkina Faso have decided in this international year of water cooperation to take action together to develop and promote sustainable WASH services in Burkina Faso. On October 1, 2013 they have signed a Memorandum of... Read more...
Learning alliances are one of the ways that IRC supports WASH stakeholders to innovate, coordinate and collaborate. At the UN Water conference on 8-10 January 2013, in Zaragoza, Spain IRC shared lessons from SWITCH. Read more...
From its onset, the Triple-S project worked on the understanding that sustainability of rural water services cannot be achieved through a single entity but rather through strategic partnerships that work to address concerns of the entire sector. One of the methods through which the project would... Read more...
The Philippine government – together with the World Bank, the United Nations through the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund (MDG-F) and other development partners – have launched a ‘local water governance toolbox’. The toolbox is aimed at small-scale water service providers (SSWPs) with... Read more...
This paper summarises findings from a recent study of the status of rural water supply in some thirteen countries, which aimed to identify commonalities in both challenges and opportunities to rural water supply in countries as diverse as the USA, India, Honduras and Ghana. It spans a developmental... Read more...