Anyone who works in the water sector cannot have missed the consultations and debates on the post-2015 goals for water and sanitation. Read more...
El IRC apoya al Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo en el tema de monitoreo de agua y saneamiento rural. Consiste del desarrollo de una guía de indicadores, y apoyo a la aplicación del mismo en El Salvador, Honduras y Paraguay. Read more...
A few weeks ago, an interesting email discussion was held on “water point mapping” D-Groupof the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN). Part of the discussion focused on how much it costs to map or monitor all water systems in a country. Various figures were floating around in the discussion. But when... Read more...
Triple-S country study Honduras. Read more...
Community-based service providers need regular, structured support that goes beyond ad hoc technical assistance. Read more...
What makes a good monitoring system? They feed into local level planning and decision-making, are realistically designed with existing resource... Read more...
Just as Orpheus descended into the underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back to life, the water sector invests heavily in bringing broken-down water supply systems back into function; often to find those same systems slipping back into disuse, as soon as the engineers turn their head to look away... Read more...
Could lack of definition be undermining the impact of effective but costly support? Read more...
El IRC contribuyó a la creación del grupo temático de transparencia de la Red de Agua y Saneamiento de Honduras (RAS-HON). Este grupo hizo una sistematización de buenas prácticas de transparencia en el manejo de servicios de agua, como insumo para la elaboración de un manual sobre transparencia,... Read more...
Water For People adopted the "Everyone, Forever" approach. IRC carried out a case study to learn lessons on scaling-up rural water and sanitation services. Read more...
Chinda is a small rural municipality, of some 5000 people, spread out over 15 hamlets in Western Honduras. This week I had the opportunity to carry out a case study of the work of the NGO Water For People (WFP) in this municipality. Read more...
Cities in Latin America face a double challenge in environmental sanitation, of both providing access to basic water supply and sanitation for those currently lacking that, and improving the collection and treatment of wastewater and solid waste. Governance is a crucial factor affecting the way in... Read more...