WASH Tools
Practical tools and guidance for technical staff within national governments, NGOs and donor agencies, as well as the experts and consultants supporting them.
Practical tools and guidance for technical staff within national governments, NGOs and donor agencies, as well as the experts and consultants supporting them.
For over a decade IRC has been working on the challenges of providing WASH services that last. Here we're bringing together the tools and guidance we've developed with our partners in some 20 countries around the world. A few of the tools can be used 'off the shelf'; most provide a useful model or starting point for more tailored solutions. Our work is on-going and the collection is being continually updated and refined.
The tools can be used in various ways:
To lead sector-level change processes to ensure sustainable WASH services
To analyse what's working and what's not in the current system
To design solutions to specific service delivery challenges
The information has been divided into the nuts and bolts of delivering a sustainable service and the pathways to delivering the type of broad-based, sector level change needed to reach the SDG targets.
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Guidelines, methods and tools for use in processes of planning and dialogue within and between local and intermediate levels.
This paper offers a methodological framework to assess the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions based on preliminary test observations in...
A set of principles to guide our actions in the years to 2030.
In an increasingly urbanising world, with some 863 million people living in informal urban settlements in 2012 (based on UN estimates), there is a...
Briefing note describing the life-cycle costs approach and why it was developed.
The paper seeks to analyse and describe the processes and actions undertaken by IRC and its partners to create large-scale change in Ghana's rural...
Mapping the demand for sanitation, against the capacity of supply chain actors to supply affordable products that meet consumer needs and desires...