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Aid must be used to help local institutions not just develop infrastructure but also operate and maintain water and sanitation services well into the future. Read more...
Grâce au projet de transformation d’une ferme avicole en une ferme écologique initié par le fondateur de la Coopérative des aveugles de Bouaké, les non-voyants ont décidé de s’impliquer dans la préservation de l’environnement par la valorisation des déchets. Une initiative qui désormais école et... Read more...
Réputée très polluée, les boutiques, les habitations et les hangars environnant la lagune de Cotonou ont été rasés en mai 2012 par le gouvernement. Une opération courageuse, une sorte d’année zéro de l’hygiène et l’assainissement à la berge lagunaire.Par le passé, la berge était très polluée par... Read more...
Avec l'IRC, soutenez le développement d'une presse indépendante et au service de l'eau et de l'assainissement pour tous en Afrique de l'Ouest. Read more...
Our talk about 'sector learning' sometimes obscures the fact that it is people, individually or collectively, who learn and catalyse change. So, it's been inspiring to check in with four young professionals from Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, and Uganda who are visiting IRC for their final de-... 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...
I have written before about our work on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) in Honduras. The idea is to look into the real costs of investment programmes and projects in Honduras, so see which intervention model is the most cost-effective. Read more...
Hay razones para estar enojado y no aceptar que las infraestructuras se desmoronen. El sistema debería funcionar continuamente, si no es así es necesario saber lo que está pasando y hacer algo al respecto. Read more...
Sustainability is on top of the list of countries, of development partners and of IRC. Now that we know about the high break down rates of pumps and pipes, we are alarmed. And we should be! Not only because breakdowns are a waste of investment and a waste of tax payers’ money, but because people... Read more...
The costing sustainable services training that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, between the 8 th -10 th of May 2012 examined ways to improve the financing of water service delivery in Ethiopia and specifically to increase the sustainability of service delivery. The main gaps that were... Read more...
Depuis de nombreuses années, je parcours les quartiers populaires des capitales d’Afrique de l’Ouest: Abidjan, Ndjaména, Bamako, Niamey, Cotonou, Lomé, Dakar …Toutes ces grandes villes souffrent cruellement d’un manque d’assainissement, les égouts sont souvent inexistants et les eaux usées sont... Read more...
India, a leading economic power capable of launching nuclear missiles, is finding it difficult to provide sustainable drinking water and sanitation services. It took the country's apex auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) to point its finger to the shame of slippage... Read more...
La disponibilité de l’eau potable est encore une promesse pour au moins 37% de la population du Bénin. Un véritable challenge pour la mise en œuvre des déterminants sociaux de la santé. Read more...
Les caractéristiques de fragilité dessinées sur l'environnement local, pénètrent dans les profondeurs du cœur d’une ville située dans l'extrême ouest du continent africain dans la péninsule du Cap-Vert. Read more...
Just as Orpheus descended into the underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back to life, the water sector invests heavily in bringing broken-down water supply systems back into function; often to find those same systems slipping back into disuse, as soon as the engineers turn their head to look away... Read more...
Could Zimbabwe's once-strong lead in water and sanitation coverage in Southern Africa be recovered through the joint project Zimwash? Read more...
RiPPLE, established in 2006 as a research programme consortium, is evolving and growing. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. IRC and WSUP show that effective solutions to this challenge do exist. See discussion paper: Financing water and sanitation for the poor: six key solutions (below). Which of the... Read more...
José Miguel es circuit rider, especialista responsable de proveer asistencia técnica a un número importante de comités de agua en su zona cerca del departamento de San Vicente, en El Salvador. Read more...