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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.
The sanitation life cycle covers all stages that human excreta pass in a sanitation services approach, to stop excreta to be a serious environmental health risk and a high economic burden. Read more...
A major weakness of toilet construction programmes is their limited impact on sustained sanitary behaviour. Read more...
The July 2012 issue of the New Agriculturist features a story about the "honey-suckers" of Bengaluru, which is based on a case study published by IRC. In Bengaluru in southern India, tanker drivers known as honey-suckers provide a valuable sanitation service, collecting faecal sludge from... Read more...
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reviewed its contribution to improving the drinking water and sanitation services in developing countries over the period 1990-2011. The review provides insight into how the policy has impacted health and development opportunities of people around the world. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and DGIS/ DME (with support from NWP) invited Bob Reed from WEDC to give a presentation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS). Reed shared insights on the topic of emergency urban sanitation—shining light on the challenges and solutions. Emergency... Read more...
So far, sanitation policies and programmes seldom include full cycle services. This oversight contributes to the continued practice of unsafe emptying and end-disposal either by the households themselves or by the formal and informal services sector. Read more...
UNICEF Mozambique Representative Jesper Morch and Nico Terra, Director of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding defining their collaboration in Mozambique. The objective of the collaboration between UNICEF Mozambique and IRC is to document... Read more...
Before you is the first version of the Low-Cost Sanitation Package for Non-Sewered Private Toilets, SanPack for short. This collection of e-documents is the reorganized set up of papers, materials and tools that IRC and its partners have developed on non-sewered household toilets from the mid-1980s... Read more...
A neatly framed citation hanging on Gram Panchayat walls in Pardi village announces that the village is receiving ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’ on attaining full sanitation coverage in households, schools and Aanganwadi centres and for outstanding contributions to promotion of rural sanitation. This tiny... Read more...
Abudu Gangi is one of the committed women in Koraput district in the eastern Indian state of Orissa whose persistent efforts are adding up to bring about positive behavioural changes among people in the district. Read more...
Mr. Vikas Raj—secretary of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Department of Andhra Pradesh, identified unsustainable sources and absence of dedicated funds as two major challenges for the government of Andhra Pradesh in providing sustainable water and sanitation services. Mr. Raj shares his... Read more...
BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh. Read more...
This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals. Read more...
In 2002 the Ugandan Ministry of Health compiled and distributed a handbook on data collection of Environmental Health information at household level. Although the book was distributed at district and parish level, it was not being used and many officers were not even aware of it. Read more...
In Dr V. Kurian Baby's, IRC senior programe officer in South Asia, keynote address on the occasion of the World Water Day 2012, he stressed the need to enlarge the concept of food security to integrate drinking water security. Read more...
Robert Marten an Associate of the Rockefeller Foundation presented the results of the Foundation’s Multiple Use Services (MUS) search. This exercise meant to explore the policy, technical and other barriers that limit the scaling of MUS. In addition, it, also closely looked at how to make the MUS... Read more...
Financing water and sanitation improvements for the very poor remains a major challenge over large areas of the globe. In a dynamic session at the World Water Forum in Marseille participants were asked to choose the best solution from 6 proposed by IRC and WSUP in their paper 6 Key Solutions for... Read more...
We are interested in collecting stories from a broad number of stakeholders, including representatives of governments and donor agencies, international finance institutions, foundations, NGOS, private sector and research organisations. Read more...
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre will be an active participant in the World Water Forum 6 from 12 to 17 March 2012 in Marseilles, France. We will be strongly involved in WWF6 sessions on Finance, Monitoring and Communications. Read more...
"What is being measured is basically the type of improved technology that people are supposed to be accessing like a hand-pump or a tap in the house. What's not being measured is whether it works, the quality, how far people have to walk to get to that water." IRC's Patrick Moriarty was... Read more...
