Het is tijd voor 'nieuwe waterambities'. Read more...
The challenges and opportunities for CSO involvement in Dutch-funded interventions in developing countries. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
The Max Foundation has developed the Healthy Village concept to reduce child mortality through safe water supply and sanitation, safe motherhood and... Read more...
What lessons has the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs learned in moving from aid to trade? Read more...
A guest blogger's report of discussions at a Max Foundation-IRC event. Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
Max Foundation and IRC invite you to discuss sustainability and domestic resource mobilisation when aid ends. Read more...
The evaluation gives an appraisal of the impact of the Dutch development cooperation.budget cuts in 2010 on countries and programmes. One general... Read more...
Een blog voor Vice Versa door Stef Smits. Afgelopen week kwamen de uitslagen van de eindexamens. Minister Ploumen kan haar vlag met boekentas nog niet uithangen. Als ik zo haar rapport en cijferlijst bekijk, moet ze voor tenminste één van haar hoofdvakken – water – op herkansing, schrijft Stef... Read more...
A country needs to meet a certain development or income threshold before aid can prove to be effective and aid flows tend to have diminishing returns. Read more...
Investigating whether donor restrictions affect the sustainability of water and sanitation interventions. Read more...
This policy brief, submitted to the Dutch Parliament, describes the government's development aid water programme for the years 2012-2015 (in Dutch). Read more...
And how is aid strengthening the sector's capacities to deliver sustainable water sanitation and hygiene services for all? Read more...
Study on aid effectiveness in Honduras underpinning IRC’s approach based on the understanding that achieving universal and sustainable WASH services... Read more...
In reactie op een artikel dat deze week verscheen in NRC over fraude met Nederlands ontwikkelingsgeld voor schoon drinkwater in Benin, schrijft Stef Smits deze blog. Terugkeren naar projecthulp is geen optie, zegt hij. Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
Leverage is needed to create conditions for scale, say Dutch NGOs. Read more...
The King's speech marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year. This year he drew attention to the important position of the Netherlands in the international water sector. The budgets that were presented alongside the speech also reflect this, notably with a 6% increase for the budget for WASH... Read more...
You must know about the culture and beliefs of communities before co-creating solutions with them. Read more...