The SMART market-based approach is contributing to SDG 6 and beyond. Its impact is significant, but localised. Read more...
Making a range of good quality household water filters available to customers is an additional service and an intermediate solution until water... Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
Lessons learned from the Safe Water Phase 2 initiative (2015-2018): a WASH Talk podcast. Read more...
Developing viable business models to provide point-of-use safe water services to communities at the base of the pyramid (BoP). Read more...
During a stakeholder workshop in Nepal in September 2017, IRC spoke with Anisha Karn, Marketing Manager of SmartPaani, a Nepalese private water company, about business viability, social marketing and innovation in Nepal. Read more...
Interview with Pierre Gilles Duvernay from Antenna Foundation on the Safe Water Phase II programme. Read more...
How and why businesses in the Safe Water 2 programme do their monitoring. Read more...
Whether you live in the countryside or city in Ethiopia, your water may be unsafe to drink. Household water treatment is one way we can improve its quality. Read more...
How entrepreneurs in Odisha, India, provide villagers with safe, affordable, home-delivered drinking water. Read more...
The review seeks to assess the prevalence of private sector management models and their potential to improve both the coverage and sustainability of... Read more...
In the Safe Water II programme (2015-2018) we map tools and approaches that local businesses in household water treatment products use to start and scale up their business. Read more...
Production problems and insufficient demand led to the termination of ceramic filter production. Trouble-free production and high demand are... Read more...