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IRC is developing a methodology to measure behaviour change in the context of a sanitation programme promoting EcoSan latrines. Read more...
Over the years, IRC's focus has evolved from supporting community management, to working on a 'whole system' approach to sector change. In this second blog in our series on a learning and adaptive sector we chart IRC's evolution and explore the central role of collective learning for delivering... Read more...
This report, commissioned by UNHCR, presents a methodology to cost water services in post-emergency situations as well as in first emergency... Read more...
A 2-week training programme to introduce Water Services that Last and Costing Sustainable Services curricula to BSc students and educational staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane - Rural Engineering School was held in March 2014. Read more...
Priceless! tells the story of the five year WASHCost project to disentangle the costs of water, sanitation and hygiene. The project has influenced international discourse about WASH services and how costs relate to quality and sustainability, and has spun off assets such as the WASHCost Share tool... Read more...
Roel Martens, Senior Advisor at the Directorate-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Joop Colsen, Founder of Colsen BV, shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Wout Korving, co-founder and senior advisor of RebelGroup, shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Sascha Gabizon, Director WECF, shares her perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014
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IRC's Patrick Moriarty shares his perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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...
Christiaan Rebergen (Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands), Ariette Brouwer (Director of Simavi) and Hielke Wolters (Managing Director of Aquanet) share their perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
Read more...Is aid and trade the answer to "Dead Aid"? Is it just tied aid in disguise? Does it make sense in the water sanitation and hygiene sector? IRC invited a group of stakeholders from the Dutch WASH sector to The Hague on 17 September 2014 to discuss all this and more. Join the discussion! Read more...
Improving aid effectiveness across the WASH sector is a key aim of IRC. Read more...
La mejora de eficacia de la ayuda externa al sector agua potable y saneamiento (APS) es un objetivo clave de IRC. Read more...
If you could start from scratch and design a new WASH sustainability tool, what would it look like? Participants from the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum share their ideas on the principles of their ideal WASH sustainability tool. The 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum brought together over 150 participants from nearly 30 countries to discuss concrete approaches to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sustainability. The Forum took place in Amsterdam, on 30 June and 1 July.
Read more...IRC updated its ladder to measure effectiveness of hygiene interventions, which is breaking down hygiene practices according to categories, and that can be used to compare the "before" and "after" behaviour of a beneficiary, for a given intervention. Read more...
Can the new trade-based approach help ensure that every person in the world enjoys safe water, sanitation and hygiene, now and forever? IRC's event The Limits of Aid, the Future of Trade? will shed light on opportunities and challenges of the aid-and-trade agenda towards ensuring that everyone can... Read more...
A passionate school teacher took the lead in making his school a model in sanitation. However, the ground in front of the school is an open defecation area. Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. Read more...