Former IRC Programme Officer
Broad efforts at regulatory reform and increasing energy and water access may, but will not necessarily, help the poor, says an Asian Development Bank policy brief published in April 2010. The poor often need specifically targeted interventions, measures, and approaches to ensure that they benefit... Read more...
The Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) began in late 2004, after Pact Sudan received USAID funding for programming in Greater Upper Nile and Greater Bahr el Ghazel Regions. The WRAPP Equatoria program (April 2007 - June 2009) was an extension of the WRAPP program into 7 counties in... Read more...
A study by the African Development Bank (AfDB) concludes that improved sector coordination and capacity building at the local level are some of the key elements to increase efficiency in the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
WaterAid has published a report about access to water and sanitation for people living with HIV and Aids in Tanzania. Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided US$ 50 million for the Rural Infrastructure Support Project which ran from June 2006 to March 2009. The project was implemented in less-developed districts in the provinces of East Java, East Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, and South East Sulawesi. Read more...
The Overseas Development Institute reports on earthquake response. Read more...
One of the important challenges of post-war reconstruction is to provide more and better quality basic services, such as water. Previous attempts at upgrading main supply systems to accommodate peri-urban areas have been overwhelmed by the explosive demographic growth of Angola's major cities... Read more...
Results and lessons learned from a pilot Output-Based Aid (OBA) facility are presented in a new note by the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA). Read more...
Water resource management is critical for the achievement of many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Too often, the political economy issues that determine whether or not water resources are managed effectively are overlooked. Drawing on research from the Lake Victoria region, ODI Research... Read more...
Sector learning is a new thematic area of the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. Sector learning seeks to systemise the capture and sharing of experiences in the WASH sector and to develop the sector's capacity to reflect on the lessons. It provides a framework at the national level to... Read more...
The Asian Development Bank's support for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in infrastructure development in general was rated "successful," a special evaluation study concludes. Read more...
The financial transparency of urban local bodies (ULBs) in the south Indian state of Kerala has increased thanks to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) project. The municipal corporations of Cochin and Trivandrum now publish their financial accounts online. Read more...
It is estimated that 19 million people in South Africa are rural survivalists with traditional agrarian lifestyles, and over 15 million are living below the poverty line. Levels of food security have been increased in some villages using in-field rainwater harvesting (IRWH) and conservation. Read more...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) has completed yet another study that aims to meet the water quality requirements of people in South Africa. Read more...
When Save the Children launched its School Health and Nutrition (SHN) program in Mangochi, Malawi in 1998, only 42 percent of schools had access to clean water and none had hand-washing facilities. Only 54 percent of schools had separate facilities for girls. In 2003, when Save the Children... Read more...
An overview of Save the Children's School Health and Nutrition program in Bangladesh. Read more...
A report on improving water utility services through delegated management in Kenya Read more...
In Ethiopia's Southern Nations Nationalities and People's Region (SNNPR) an innovative programme has promoted latrine construction and use, hand washing and safe water storage and handling. The intervention is an example of how visionary government leadership can create the political momentum for... Read more...
The "Raising Citizens' Voice in the Regulation of Water Services" is a public education initiative driven by the National Regulator (currently within the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF). Read more...
Dinajpur district residents have stopped defecating in the open because of the children's total sanitation campaign that follows a radical community-led approach. Whistle blowing is a favorite pastime among children in the villages of Dinajpur district in northern Bangladesh. They would blow their... Read more...