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The vision for WASH in the post-2015 development agenda is one of universal access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in our time. No one should practice open defecation. Everyone should have safe water, sanitation and hygiene at home. All schools and health centres should have water,... Read more...
Innovative monitoring tools are being used to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to almost 55 million people in Bangladesh. Read more...
A Dutch-funded project aims to bring piped drinking water to peri-urban neighbourhoods of the Bolivian capital La Paz. What will determine its success? Read more...
Last week's IRCnergy week looked at the exciting development of a multi-country sustainability monitoring system for water and sanitation services. Read more...
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving water and sanitation services. Read more...
Recently I have been on a continent-hopping tour through a different range of meetings and events, from which I have seen a pattern emerging, or at least a series of questions in my own mind, as I carry out my work in the WASH sector at an international level. Read more...
Learning and adaptive management are critical elements in a cycle of continuous improvement, which is needed to provide water and sanitation services in an ever-changing environment. Read more...
The challenge is that too often Process Documentation is limited to simple documentation (in all ways) of events. Process Documentation as a method has the potential to achieve much more than that. Indeed Process Documentation offers the potential to identify (in a social or participatory way) the... Read more...
Learning is critical to development, so development practitioners need to reflect on how to nurture learning processes. Read more...
A Babonga un village de la commune de Mansila au Nord du Burkina, un forage récemment réhabilité par l’ONG Eau-Vive est aujourd’hui hors d’usage. La raison : une réhabilitation inappropriée effectuée par un service non identifié. Read more...
Practical tools for finance mechanisms feature in a new guide. Read more...
Youssouf, le coiffeur a de la peine à coiffer l’enfant de Bayi, la vendeuse qui tient solidement les deux bras de son enfant. Soudain, passe un communiqué radio sur le lavage des mains : « Il faut se laver les mains au savon avant et après les toilettes et les repas » disait le communiqué en langue... Read more...
This story is fictional. Any resemblance to real situations or persons is pure coincidence. When Alice stepped through the mirroring water surface into waterland, the first creature she came across was a rabbit, wearing a UN-blue jacket, looking frantically at its watch. "It is nearly time. Only... Read more...
A few weeks ago, an interesting email discussion was held on “water point mapping” D-Groupof the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). Part of the discussion focused on how much it costs to map or monitor all water systems in a country. Various figures were floating around in the discussion. But when... Read more...
Learning is not optional or just a box to tick off. Knowing what works, what doesn't, for whom and in which contexts is crucial to improve water, sanitation and hygiene interventions for services that last. But using lessons learned requires linking learning to purpose, with a joint vision and... Read more...
This short summary of recent progress and current issues was prepared for the Self Supply Working Group based on discussions with the MoWE Self Supply Team and CoWASH project team as a contribution to an RWSN e-conference on self supply. Read more...
Research and learning are set to become important elements in national planning and monitoring of sanitation and water services. That is, at least, the aim of the Research and Learning (R&L) constituency of the Sanitation and Water for All global partnership (SWA). The R&L constituency will... Read more...
The report of a recent workshop on 'Consensus building .. on the provision of micro-finance for water supply, sanitation and hygiene and multiple use services in ethiopia' includes some interesting ideas of insurance products and multiple use systems that deliver productive benefits beyond... Read more...
IRC’s roots are in knowledge management, capacity building and advocacy. Since our founding in 1968, our focus and ambition have evolved from generating knowledge and making it accessible to the sector, towards playing an active role in the facilitation of learning and systemic change in the... Read more...
The WASH sector is in consensus labelled as a complex system. Interventions need to cope with wicked problems and solutions strive for adaptive management as exit strategy. The bulk of the WASH projects deliver on the short-term. In three year Hygiene projects populations / schools / communities... Read more...