Loss and damage is already hammering the water sector. Thanks but no thanks for the empty promises. Read more...
Many current approaches won't work. We must build strong national and local systems dedicated to universality. Read more...
The Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting will focus squarely on finance. Read more...
UK cuts on water, sanitation and hygiene aid betray international pledges to save lives Read more...
A pictorial Sub-Saharan Summary in 10 slides by Sally Sutton Read more...
Sharing lessons learnt from Somali region around systems thinking in WASH and collaboration between organisations in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. Read more...
The impact of COVID-19 has been unprecedented on all areas of peoples lives globally, on a scale barely imagined only a few months ago. From the ever growing infection rates and death toll as the virus travelled around the world, to the light it shined on the huge disparities of impact on different... Read more...
Lessons from the Central African Republic and Mali. Report of a WASH debate. Read more...
De-risking investments by building capacities and subsidising interest. Report of an IRC-NWP WASH Debate. Read more...
How do we make sure that everyone has a basic level of service? Report of an IRC WASH Debate. Read more...
From exit strategies to transformation strategies in WASH. Read more...
A guest blogger's report of discussions at a Max Foundation-IRC event. Read more...
How am I going to vote? Read more...
Investigating whether donor restrictions affect the sustainability of water and sanitation interventions. Read more...
IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty wishing you a wonderful 2016 Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
The King's speech marks the opening of the Dutch parliamentary year. This year he drew attention to the important position of the Netherlands in the international water sector. The budgets that were presented alongside the speech also reflect this, notably with a 6% increase for the budget for WASH... Read more...
The new Sustainable Development Goals require revolutionary change, as universal access to water and sanitation by 2030 is a revolutionary idea. But what brings us closer in achieving this? Bethel Terefe of IRC Ethiopia looked for answers at the third international conference on Financing For... Read more...
Traditionally we've looked to the three Ts to finance water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, with the focus on transfers and tariffs. But this leaves a large financing gap. One which, if we don't solve, will make us miss the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of universal access. Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...