IRC collaborated with partners to develop a new approach to assess WASH risks in marginal populations in Ethiopia. Read more...
Grants awarded for WASH in healthcare facility advocacy Read more...
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us. Read more...
Why we should care about how we display our data. Read more...
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Read more...
World Vision promotes and provides adapted water and sanitation facilities for the disabled. Read more...
4th International Conference on Water & Society, 5 - 7 June 2017, Seville, Spain. The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2017 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by a meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK,... Read more...
Several inspiring IRC sessions and side events. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
A successful pilot in Ethiopia deserves to be scaled up for health care centres in other parts of the country. Read more...
Stronger advocacy is needed for better water, sanitation and hygiene facilities in schools, health centres, workplaces and prisons. Read more...
Simavi is using integrated approaches in the MKAJI programme in Tanzania's Dodoma Region. Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
A third of health care facilities in the developing world don't even have water and soap for handwashing. A shameful situation that can be overcome with simple solutions and global action. Read more...
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally... Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
Next year the Millennium Development Goals will make way for their successors: the Sustainable Development Goals. What does this mean for global development? What should the new targets include? Organisations working in water, sanitation and hygiene closely follow the making of the new agenda. Read more...
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague. Read more...
Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury from BRAC on the Bangladesh public health miracle, aid or trade, arsenic, floating latrines and the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
