Looking back on Post-COP Activists Connect Read more...
Lessons from the National Sanitation Campaign. Read more...
"I am calling on WASH and health professionals to change the way we address hygiene promotion", says Juste Nansi, Country Director IRC Burkina Faso. Read more...
"The master plan provides a strategic tool in bringing all sector actors together around a singular objective." - Magdalene Matthews, Senior Program Officer, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Read more...
Building resilience is not a "nice to have"- it is essential, says Ban Ki Moon. Read more...
Systematic or systemic inequalities are grounded in our mindsets; in the way, we think, in the way we plan, in the way we see people, and in the way we interpret the rights to water and sanitation. Read more...
Ever wonder if using the acronym WASH (however clever) has been a barrier to communicating what our sector does? Is it telling of our ability to communicate clearly? Read more...
Report of a Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Every now and again the rich world has its nose rubbed in the true meaning of poverty. The coronavirus pandemic is but the latest example. We need to make sure it's the last. Read more...
IRC and WASH specialists are working hard to ensure that the rural population is not abandoned in this time of crisis. Read more...
This is the first of a series of blog posts on building resilient WASH systems in fragile contexts. Read more...
White Ribbon Alliance aims for a 30% WASH access improvement at healthcare facilities in Chitipa, Zomba and Dowa, Malawi. Read more...
A meeting organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively. Read more...
In the process of writing the Multi-annual Country Strategies: does the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs consider the WASH strategy? Read more...
What would universal access to water and sanitation look like by 2030? Read more...
Many current approaches won't work. We must build strong national and local systems dedicated to universality. Read more...
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) and the national governments jointly prepare for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) and the Dakar N'gor Declaration on Water and Sanitation. Read more...
This blog was republished with permission from Sanitation and Water For All On October 28, 2012, I was in New York to present the annual report to the UN General Assembly in my capacity as the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. New Yorkers will remember... Read more...
ACCRA, Aug. 28, 2024 – The President of the Republic of Ghana, H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, today signed a historic Presidential Compact on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, as part of the government's commitment to improving public health, increasing climate resilience and ensuring that hard to... Read more...
WASH services for enhancing public health and disease prevention Read more...
