Three Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) have won a prize for their best sanitation strategies in the Sanitation Challenge for Ghana. Read more...
After 17 years at IRC, Marielle Snel has moved on to a new job opportunity, as regional WASH advisor for World Vision International based in Cyprus. Read more...
Tracking budgets and actual expenditure in WASH are essential to ensure sustainable water and sanitation services. Planning and budgets have to capture the activities and costs supporting ongoing services beyond the creation of infrastructures. Read more...
Several IRC sessions and the launch of Watershed – empowering citizens. Read more...
Sanitation coverage in Amuria district has improved from 52.6% in 2011 to 85% in 2016. How did Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) achieve that? Read more...
The Uganda Sanitation Fund (USF) has since 2011, implemented Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in 30 districts in Uganda. As a result,over 6,000 villages have been triggered and over 3 million people are living in Open Defecation Free (ODF) areas. Jane Nabunnya Mulumba , IRC Uganda Country... Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
IRC helps AMCOW develop a new process to monitor the N'gor declaration Read more...
Clear calls for increased investment in water and sanitation during the Africa Water Week. Read more...
The decision to divert funding from water to sanitation turned sour when drought struck India. Read more...
Africa's governments should "put resolute actions in favour of water and should confront the immediate challenges of scarcity of safe and clean water." a plea by Hon. Kibaki at the opening of the 6th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Read more...
Civil Society Organisations in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector have called upon the African Ministerial Council on Water (AMCOW) to take action to ensure universal access to sustainable services, leaving no one behind. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
In this first year of the Watershed programme the country teams define their goals in a Theory of Change workshop. Read more...
Join IRC at two side sessions during this the 39th WEDC International Conference in Kumasi, Ghana. Read more...
Sensitization workshops on self-supply acceleration were organized for different woredas of the Amhara and Oromia regions by CRS, World Vision and CARE to speed up implementation. Read more...
Some highlights and challenges we faced in 2015: Burkina Faso Read more...
In 2008 IRC set itself the bold goal of catalysing a shift in sector thinking: from delivering hardware to delivering services that last. And we think that by 2015 we've largely achieved that goal. Read more...
A Learning Seminar on Monitoring for Sustainability organised by IRC with the One WaSH National Program, UNICEF, COWASH Project and Aguaconsult will be held on 9th August 2016 at Getfam Hotel, Addis Ababa. Read more...
Intern Jimmy Otim realised his passion for WASH in Uganda's Lira District. Read more...