Is hazardous medical waste sufficiently managed? Read more...
Almost 4 million people in 93 communes in Burkina Faso benefited from the project "Strengthening communal capacities to manage water, sanitation and hygiene" Read more...
Près de 4 millions d'habitants issus de 93 communes du Burkina Faso ont bénéficié du projet de « renforcement des capacités des municipalités du Burkina Faso dans la gouvernance de l'eau potable, de l'hygiène et de l'assainissement » Read more...
Tax exemption on a number of products can play an important role in improving sanitation coverage in Ethiopia. Read more...
This video of Banfora shows how the town council is implementing water and sanitation services for its population. Read more...
World Water Week 2023 will take place from 20 –24 August and is focused on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges Read more...
The Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia has drawn up a sanitation subsidy protocol to address the sanitation needs of the poorest segment of the population Read more...
The daily reality of a community health worker in Niakatiré in the commune of Makalondi, Niger. Read more...
The case of Kijura Town Council in Kabarole District, Uganda. Read more...
Effective WASH services are a source of resilience for communities under threat from COVID-19 Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
Several inspiring IRC sessions and side events. Read more...
Why the absence of sanitation and hygiene services causes girls to drop out of school. Read more...
IRC has compiled a growing repository of tools and guidance for strengthening WASH service delivery. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
“People are developing a taste for healthy living. They want improvement‑compared to us and what we are doing, they want better.” Md Amin Uddin one of the elders in Arua village in Keshabpur upazila, Jessore district, Bangladesh is optimistic about the future. Read more...
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague. Read more...
OUAGADOUGOU, 1st June 2014 – IRC is starting a Euro 3.3 million project co-funded by European Union in Burkina Faso. The aim of the investment is to strengthen sustainable sanitation and hygiene services for 100,000 people in six rural municipalities in Burkina Faso over the next four years. Read more...
This article provides insight into how the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) used the life-cycle costs approach while collecting household sanitation and hygiene data to support their study on productive and conventional on-site sanitation in Rwanda. Vera van der Grift (IRC) interviewed... Read more...