These factsheets on microfinance for water supply services and sanitation explore and discuss microfinance for the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
Four members of the EMPOWERS team (Peter Laban, Mufleh Abbadi, Sameera Rifai,Hazem Fahmy) spent the first week of June 2005 in the Netherlands to attend with over 100 other people from around the world an international symposium, which was organized by the International Water and Sanitation Centre... Read more...
The Euro-Med Participatory Water Resources Scenarios (EMPOWERS Partnership) has published its first EMPOWERS Insight magazine, sharing progress and experiences in the regional programme working in Egypt, Jordan and West Bank and Gaza. Read more...
EMPOWERS has signed four agreements in Jordan to improve water and sanitation services in the Balqa Governorate, including three with village organisations. Read more...
Scaling up is a term which is becoming familiar in the water and sanitation sectors but, despite or because of this increase in usage, it is apparent that the term means different things to different people. This review examines available literature in order to highlight the conflict between... Read more...
Selection of papers and reports on Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods (WHIRL), a joint Indian, South African and UK project, co-ordinated by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI). Read more...
The WHiRL project is supporting innovative approaches to promote integrated water resources management for rural water supply in two very different contexts. Read more...
IRC ran the RCD Programme in over 18 countries. An overview of the programme is provided here. Read more...
Improved access to water supply and sanitation (WSS) is amongst the most pressing needs of poor people in all developing countries. Domestic water supplies and environmental sanitation contribute to livelihoods in a wide range of ways. Read more...
The overall objective of the EMPOWERS project is improved long-term access to water by vulnerable populations through... Read more...
Special issue of Source Bulletin no 31, September 2003 with news from the Sixth Water Information Summit, its related workshops on knowledge management and highlights from IRC's 35th anniversary. Read more...
IRC managed the JPO programme in collaboration with resource centres in developing countries. Twelve JPOs participate in the programme: four from the IRC in the Netherlands and eight from the resource centres. Each of the four Dutch JPOs spent a period of 15 months at one of the resource centres,... Read more...
