In rural Agravi, things are even worse. After pumps failed and supplies dried up women lower buckets into an open well and pull them up by hand. The well is vulnerable to pollution and to animals falling in. A pump provided by the District Authority in 2012 failed within a week while another... Read more...
Goamu Asamang community has three wells and pumps for 1,800 people and none of them work well. Children miss schooling because they are helping the family collect water or waiting for parents to return from the pump. There has been little maintenance on facilities installed in 1985, 2003 and 2012... Read more...
In Tawiahkrom the main water supply is an open well where women pull up water in buckets. For most women it means an uphill walk back home carrying water. Men also collect water and carry it home on the back of bicycles. Sanitation has failed and men and women share the same public latrine. In... Read more...
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The Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda organises the annual commemoration of Global Handwashing Day. IRC Uganda Country Office was there to document the highlights. Read more...
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It's All systems go! IRC and partners are hosting a symposium on building and strengthening systems to deliver safe and sustainable WASH services for everyone. Join us 12th - 14th March 2019 at the Fokker Terminal, The Hague, the Netherlands. We've gathered together all the information you need... Read more...
In this WASH Talk episode, we talk about hygiene promotion, handwashing and behaviour change, highlighting an experience in Bhutan. Read more...
'Approaching the last mile' and 'Around the village pump', two articles in which IRC discusses the issues around attaining SDG 6. Read more...
'Aanloop tot de laatste mijl' en 'Rondom de dorpspomp', twee artikelen waarin IRC de problemen rond het bereiken van SDG6 bespreekt. Read more...
The communes of Bérégadougou and Niangoloko have joined the select group of Burkinabé communes that have a WASH master plan Read more...
Les communes de Bérégadougou et Niagoloko viennent de rejoindre le club fermé des communes burkinabè dotées d'un plan stratégique communal Eau & Assainissement. Tout comme Banfora avant elles, elles ont décidé d'offrir à leurs citoyens des services durables d'eau potable et d'assainissement... Read more...
Burkina Faso : IRC éclaire les députés sur les enjeux et défis de l'accès durable pour tous à l'eau potable et à l'assainissement. Lors de la première édition de la conférence publique sur les grandes questions de la nation organisée le 8 novembre 2018, conjointement par l'assemblée nationale... Read more...
Dutch organisations lobby for a credible plan to realise the 2020 sanitation targets. Read more...
IRC continues to support district local governments in improving the management of water supply systems. Action research and learning remain a key part of the process. Read more...
Nederlandse organisaties eisen een geloofwaardig plan om de enorme sanitatie ambities vanaf 2020 daadwerkelijk te realiseren. Read more...
On 20 September 2018 the municipality of Bogura and IRC signed a groundbreaking MoU. Read more...
Join the debate organised by India Sanitation Coalition and partners in Mumbai on 18 November. Read more...
IRC and UNICEF showcase the latest on practice and theory in the WASH in Schools Index. Read more...