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Everywhere in the world, even the poorest families try to beautify their houses. Then why are low-cost latrines often so ugly, ask IRC's Christine Sijbesma and Erick Baetings. Read more...
Harold Lockwood explores some of the themes and messages likely to emerge from next week's sustainability forum in Washington DC. Read more...
Webinar presentation on the use of evidence in achieving IRCs mission Read more...
March 8th, is International Women's Day. A new SNV video, shares stories about women’s participation, leadership and their changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video is from the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme, a partnership... Read more...
We're sharing our WASHCost data on the full costs of providing water and sanitation services over their entire service life-cycle from construction to operation, rehabilitation, and eventual replacement. Detailed studies established these costs and examined how these costs relate to the level of... Read more...
Data collection is easier and cheaper than ever. But gathering sound evidence – and using it for positive and lasting change–takes time and collaborative efforts. Read more...
Rural pipe water schemes, popularly known as small town water schemes, are associated with a wide range of capital expenditure and a limited understanding of what could be the key cost drivers of these systems. This briefing note, No. 11, focuses on identifying some of the major cost drivers of... Read more...
Communément appelée « pousse-pousse », la barrique est le principal moyen de transport d’eau dans les zones urbaines et péri-urbaines. Cependant, l’eau de qualité prélevée à la borne fontaine, parvient impropre aux usagers due à une contamination au cours du transport. La barrique « Sanya »,... Read more...
The 2013 WASH Sustainability forum will take place at The World Bank in Washington, D.C. on 11 and 12 March 2013. Read more...
Stakeholders in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in the Northern Region of Ghana have met to form a learning platform, the Regional Level Learning Alliance (RLLAP), in Tamale. It is to promote the sharing of ideas, knowledge and synchronise project activities and initiatives for... Read more...
Three women share their stories about participation, leadership and changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video was made to celebrate International Women's Day and features Mayadevi and Kaman (Nepal), Toan and Thinh (VietNam) and Tshering, Drukda, Tashi and Deschen (Bhutan).
The video is from SNV's Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme (SSH4A), which has been implemented by local governments and partners in 17 districts across Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia since 2008. It aims to provide one million people with access to improved hygiene and sanitation facilities by the end of 2015. As the approach aims at addressing access to sanitation for all, addressing gender issues and inequalities is key. SSH4A is a partnership between SNV, the Governments of the Netherlands, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia in Asia and IRC with support from AusAID and DFID.
The QIS monitoring system that is being used gives special attention to gender and sanitation. First because many of the indicators differentiate between women and men. Secondly because data collection for each sample is duplicated by a male and a female monitoring team. Interestingly, preliminary results show that virtually all the male and female monitoring teams members gave the same scores for the gender indicators.
Read more...WASHCost briefing note No 9 report on findings on the cost of providing water services in small towns using piped water systems in Ghana. It unearths the factors affecting sustainable water service delivery and provides cost information for planning sustainable water service in the small towns in... Read more...
This site has a wealth of resources for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practitioners collected by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Although the focus is on WASH resources for emergencies, many of the field tools and resources are also applicable in... Read more...
Ryan Schweitzer and James Mihelcic from the University of South Florida have developed a Sustainability Assessment Tool for community-managed rural water systems [1]. The tool is novel because it focuses specifically on community management during the post construction phase. It can be used to... Read more...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) estimate that the number of people without safe water and sanitation is much higher than previously thought. If you add actual service levels and the unreliability of some of the data to the equation the picture may be even bleaker. Read more...
This papers shares experiences, findings and lessons from the impact evaluation of the Second Water and Sanitation for Low Income Communities Project (WSLIC-2) by the Ministry of Health of Indonesia. Contact library@irc.nl to learn how to access the document. Read more...
IRC's work in Latin America focuses very much on Honduras. In other countries in Latin America and at regional level IRC provides advisory services and carries out research. Read more...
2013 is the third and final year of the WASHTech project. In January, consortium partners gathered in Accra, Ghana to reflect on the project’s progress and map out the immediate future of WASHTech. Research teams in Gahan, Burkina Faso and Uganda have undertaken three rounds of testing and... Read more...
Developing the capacities of the staff (governmental and non-government) as well as the private sector is important part of governance. The full range of capacities needs to cover the full cycle of sanitation services. Read more...
