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Tettje is involved in communication in the Change hub team and focuses on editing, web publishing and communication outreach. Tettje supports in preparing documents for publishing online and in print. She is giving web instruction, is co-writer of blogs and documents, and is involved in communication activities and responsible for quality control of written texts. Tettje has a degree in English language and literature of the University of Utrecht and has worked as editor for various employers in the past.
@BillGates: Lots of great groups are working on #sanitation and #water issues. Here are a few: @charitywater @Water @IRCWASH @WSUPUK @WaterAidAmerica. Read more...
Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a new and promising approach to create demand for open-defecation-free environments and toilets. It uses participatory methods to empower local communities to stop open defecation and to build and use latrines without the support of any external hardware... Read more...
Information, education and communication (IEC) is the longest existing approach to demand creation. The programmes use a mix of messages by mass communication media such as radio, TV, loudspeakers, wall writings and local theatre and personal contacts. Read more...
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. The supply chain analysis assesses each component of the chain. It identifies opportunities and constraints, and ways to overcome the latter. Read more...
At the Stockholm World Water Week 2012, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC), together with partners from the Multiple-Use Services (MUS) Group, will be promoting the use of domestic water supplies to improve food security. Water use at the homestead-level, for small-scale production... Read more...
It is our pleasure to announce the kick-off of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Working Group on “Management and support of rural water supplies”. This Working Group focusses on management models for rural water supply and on support to service providers to ensure sustainable service provision... Read more...
SWASH+ is an action-research and advocacy project focused on increasing the scale, impact and sustainability of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions in Kenya. Since September 2006, SWASH+ has worked in 185 primary schools in four districts in Nyanza Province, Kenya to identify... Read more...
When the available sanitation products do not, or only partially, match the existing demand, they must be adjusted. For example, the available models, materials and/or construction methods may be too expensive for the poorer yet larger part of the market. Read more...
Certain steps are needed for strategy development. In a documentation project where IDE Vietnam, Quang Tri province and IRC worked together, some of these steps were drawn up. Read more...
To develop a programme for improved and sustainable sanitation services requires a good understanding of existing conditions and the behaviours, needs and perceptions of the target population (the “demand” side) and of the strengths and weaknesses of the “supply” side. Read more...
Governments can finance support programmes for sanitation services by the 3 Ts: Taxes, Tariffs and Transfers. Read more...
Not always do national sanitation policies allow or facilitate the development of a service delivery approach. Read more...
There are different views on programme preparations, some say it consists of six stages, others say seven and some say four. Read more...
SanPack was designed not to duplicate, but to support the work of other organisations and networks that have stressed a services approach to sanitation by reorganizing, and ensuring e-access to, the materials of IRC and partners. The first objective is to address a number of conceptual issues and... Read more...
We believe that eventually the non-sewered sanitation market can become self-sustaining and serve everyone, from the remotest rural households to the urban poor. The private sector will then have developed sufficiently to make it want and be able to raise and meet the demands for affordable... Read more...
IRC is happy to announce two research calls in the field of sanitation: Low-cost sanitation technologies for areas with high groundwater tables Faecal sludge secondary treatment options These calls are part of the BRAC WASH II programme in which EUR 1.5 million will be used for innovative research... Read more...
Authors Catarina Fonseca, Rachel Cardone and Sophie Trémolet contributed to a new book titled “The Urban Transformation - Health, Shelter and Climate Change”, published by Routledge on 9 July 2012. The book describes the ongoing urban transformation towards a world in which, by 2050, more than two-... Read more...
IRC authors Catarina Fonseca, Rachel Cardone and Sophie Trémolet contributed to a new book titled “The Urban Transformation - Health, Shelter and Climate Change”, published by Routledge on 9 July 2012. The book describes the ongoing urban transformation towards a world in which, by 2050, more than... Read more...
André Uandela - Country Director WASHCost Mozambique stated that in order for a household to move up a step on the sanitation service ladder, a household will need to pay 2.5 times more than what was originally spent for the current service level. Read more...
WASHCost is developing a free online course to assist water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals around to world with applying life-cycle costing in their work and organisation. The online course can be used by sector professionals with little or no experience of life-cycle costing... Read more...
