Share your thoughts with six leading experts on urban sanitation finance for households, cities and the national level. Read more...
Four leading international WASH organisations IRC, WaterAid, Aguaconsult, and Water for People join hands in the run-up to the new Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague on 19 June 2015. Read more...
Taboe op ongesteldheid zet meisjes en vrouwen wereldwijd op achterstand. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
The Community Water Plus project investigates the support that is being provided to community-managed rural water supplies. This is being done for twenty case studies of programmes from across India. Read more...
Read the reflections and highlights on the session "Influencing decision makers - Finance, equity, institutional leadership" convened by IRC and partners. Read more...
Thankfully, all staff in IRC's Ghana country office in Accra are safe. Read more...
For community-managed rural water supply to be sustainable, a "plus" is needed: special efforts to empower communities during project implementation, and continued support from government during service delivery. The Community Water Plus project seeks to get a better understanding of the costs of... Read more...
Want to make sure that girls don't miss classes during menstruation? Teach them to make and wash their own reusable sanitary pads. Read more...
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) appointed IRC Uganda as its National Coordinator. The two institutions have since developed a three year Strategic Engagement Plan to be implemented between 2015 and 2017. Read more...
The AfricaSan4 conference (25-27 May) ended with a declaration defining the vision and aspirations of the African Ministers in charge of hygiene and sanitation. Read more...
Since 2011, there have been efforts to track progress in the implementation of sanitation information and monitoring systems and tools in African countries. There has been some improvement not only in number of countries reporting progress, but also in terms of quality and presentation of data. Read more...
La déclaration de Ngor sur l'hygiène et l'assainissement adoptée le 27 mai 2015 lors de la 4eme conférence régionale sur l'assainissement en Afrique (AfricaSan4) Read more...
Vous voulez en savoir plus sur le suivi de l'assainissement, notre plaidoyer auprès des décideurs et les opportunités d'apprentissage en Afrique? Read more...
Début d'une collaboration entre IRC Burkina Faso et Oxfam Québec Read more...
IRC gelooft dat iedereen in de wereld recht heeft op schoon drinkwater en goede sanitaire voorzieningen. Monitoring is het controleren of alles nog goed werkt en waar reparaties nodig zijn. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helpt de regering van Oost-Indonesië om dat te doen. Lees hier zijn verhaal. Read more...
The Community Water Plus project assesses twenty cases of support to community managed rural water supplies across India. IRC carried out one of these studies around support to community-managed handpumps in Patharpratima, West Bengal. The case study concludes that an effective mechanism for... Read more...
We believe everyone in the world should have running water and proper sanitation. Now and in the future. Monitoring is checking if everything works properly and what needs fixing. Ikos Melkhior Kosat helps the government of East Indonesia to do that. Read his story here. Read more...
Where will the money come to finance water and sanitation for all by 2030? Not from development aid. Developing countries need to get better at raising taxes. Read more...