In this episode of WASH Talk three guest speakers talk about menstrual health. Read more...
A BRAC/IRC case study shows that tea stalls in Bangladesh are ideal to teach men about hygiene. Read more...
New report reveals how BRAC, an innovative NGO in Bangladesh, provided sanitation to 39 million people. Read more...
Hand Pump Mechanics are always on call to repair water sources whenever they break down. Water source repair is largely a man's world, but who says a girl cannot fit in? Read more...
IRC helps develop action plan to integrate gender justice in urban water supply. Read more...
2015 and the Millennium Development Goals are almost behind us. The new global goals for sustainable development are expected to inspire and create a new determination for all of us. What has IRC learned during 2015 and how are we moving ahead in 2016? Read more...
It is important for all actors to ensure that water supply systems are always functional in order to minimize the negative effects that result from lack of access to reliable, safe and clean water. Read more...
According to UNICEF, the majority of schools in Burkina Faso don't have drinking water or sanitation facilities. This has been identified as one of the major obstacles to children's education in the country. Read more...
The growth of inequality is a major threat to prosperity and stability. Government leadership and government investment is needed to provide water and sanitation services to the poor. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the lack of separate latrines for girls and menstrual hygiene facilities in secondary schools are major factors in the disproportionate rate of absence and dropout of adolescent girls. Read more...
Not only does the accessibility of water play an important role in improving the well-being of Burkina Faso's women, but women too, play a crucial role in guaranteeing the sustainability of water services in the country. But what is the main challenge that women in Burkina Faso face when it comes... Read more...
On the 14th and 15th of October 2014, a workshop on gender and female participation in water service provision was organized by CARE International and IRC Burkina Faso in Dori, Burkina Faso, as part of the USAID-funded West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH) programme... Read more...
On 12 August 2014, the global campaign Girl Rising organised a Twitter chat on why #WASHmatters for girls' education. Menstrual hygiene was one of the discussion topics. Read more...
One of the objectives of the Pan-Africa programme is the empowerment of communities through the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) process in eight African countries. Four years into the process and the stories and documents emerging from the countries show that particularly women are playing an... Read more...
IRC believes in a world where water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental utilities that everyone is able to take for granted, forever. But we are concerned about the pervasive issue of violence against women being subsumed under the urgent need to promote public attention to the global... Read more...
March 8 was International Women's Day (IWD). This year's theme was "Inspiring Change". Four women inspiring change in the WASH sector came together during the World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, in September last year. Read more...
As we celebrate Women's day today. Women leadership in WASH is needed and should be actively promoted. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
Reflections by Dr Christine Sijbesma and Mahjabeen Ahmed on the QIS monitoring system. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme is fighting taboos around menstrual hygiene management. Read more...
