Mrs Vida Duti, Ghana Country Director for IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, has emphasized the need for a national framework for monitoring WASH services in an interview on national radio . Read more...
BRAC WASH II is the second phase of the WASH programme. It aims for a sustained change in personal/family hygiene, sanitation and water safety. The programme focuses on sustainably improved household and school sanitation and hygiene practices, and safe drinking water use. The BRAC WASH II... Read more...
In October 2011, during its annual Joint Sector Review, the Uganda Ministry of Water and Environment resolved to promote the formation of Hand Pump Mechanics Associations (HPMAs) as a way of enhancing sustainability of rural water services. Read more...
Water sector stakeholders are invited to express their views on how to shape the future of global water monitoring after 2015. The JMP Post 2015 Water Monitoring Working Group has launched an e-survey to let all stakeholders express their thoughts on: the Group's draft goal, targets and indicators... Read more...
Working Paper 4 proposes an alternative methodology and different tools for learning about how populations access water services. The methodology looks at the national level and is based on the application of monitoring indicators in accordance with regulation standards that are enforced in Burkina... Read more...
Le secrétariat de l’UpM a organisé, dans ses bureaux de Barcelone, la seconde réunion de coordination sur le projet d’usine de dessalement pour la Bande de Gaza, qui a permis d’actualiser les informations techniques existantes, de discuter les conditions de … Read more...
Les séries temporelles indiquent que les températures ont augmenté en Europe – Mais quels sont les changements auxquels on peut s’attendre dans l’avenir? Des experts de l’Agence Européenne de l’Environnement (AEE) ont produit une série de cartes montrant des projections … Read more...
On 3 May 2012, IRC, CONASA, and FHIS organised a seminar on standardising intervention models for the Honduran WASH sector. Read more...
On 15 May 2012, Catarina Fonseca presented the life-cycle costs approach as the seventh installment of the World Bank and Rural Water Supply Network’s webinar series on rural water supply. World Bank Rural Water Supply webinar series Read more...
After two and a half years of implementing the Project in Ghana, the Triple-S Project is already looking into the future and asking , “what will our legacy in Ghana be and how to address the issue of scaling up the Project?”. Read more...
Mr. Jon Lane, Executive Director of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), is stepping down from his post in August 2012, having led the organisation since 2007. During his 5-year directorship, Mr. Lane helped WSSCC to change its its strategic focus to sanitation and hygiene. Read more...
Less than two years after joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, “Toilet Team” director Frank Rijsberman is taking on a new position as CEO of the CGIAR Consortium. The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) coordinates the work 15 international centres,... Read more...
Mardi 22 mai, le quotidien Sidwaya a publié un article relatant les difficultés rencontrées par la large campagne de construction de près de 11 500 latrines familiales dans les campagnes du nord et du centre-est du Burkina Faso. La Direction Générale des eaux usées et excrétas du Ministère de l’... Read more...
[caption id="attachment_584" align="alignleft" width="200"] Les dalles de latrines attendent d'être récupérées par les bénéficieras du projet de la DGAEE[/caption] Mardi 22 mai, le quotidien Sidwaya a publié un article relatant les difficultés rencontrées par la large campagne de construction de... Read more...
Scale, and associated words and phrases, such as ‘scaling up’, ‘large scale’, ‘appropriate scale’ and ‘economies of scale’ are both central to development discourse and often misunderstood or interpreted in different ways. As scale is at the heart of IRC’s work on services delivery, this note seeks... Read more...
IRC, Centre international pour l’Eau et l’Assainissement, conduit sur 6 ans une initiative d’amélioration des connaissances qui permettra d’assurer un meilleur accès à l’eau et à l’assainissement des populations pauvres en milieu rural. Read more...
La gestion des toilettes est un vrai casse-tête pour les établissements scolaires : mauvaise utilisation des équipements, mauvais entretiens,… la simple construction des toilettes ne suffit pas pour apporter une solution durable pour l’assainissement à l’école. Le manque de moyens mais aussi le... Read more...
Ghana shared her experience of monitoring sustainable services using the FLOW technology during the 4 th Africa Water Week held in Cairo, Egypt from May 14 to 18, 2012. Read more...
Vidya Balan, who received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 2011 Bollywood hit 'The Dirty Picture', will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture in India. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh has named the Bollywood actress as the brand ambassador in his... Read more...
Les autorités médicales de Cambérène sont inquiètes parce que les eaux usées sont déversées quotidiennement dans les rues du village. Les évaluations mensuelles faites au niveau du Centre de santé révèlent une augmentation des malades de diarrhée et de dermatose. « Les cas de diarrhée et de... Read more...