Former IRC Programme Officer
For deciding where to invest, how to sustain and improve water and sanitation services and for understanding which policies and strategies work, both... Read more...
Great inequalities in water and sanitation service provision persist in the region. We work in partnership to accelerate the drive towards universal and sustainable access to sanitation, hygiene and water services. Read more...
Aid effectiveness: what does it entail and how to apply aid effectiveness principles in my daily work? Read more...
To monitor emerging change in the WASH sector, Triple-S experimented with SenseMaker®, an innovative monitoring method. A new report analyses why this was not successful and presents lessons learned. Read more...
Handpump mechanics support water user committees by repairing pumps upon breakdown. But mechanics' charges are high and inconsistent, and their access to spare parts varies. As costs and delays increase, communities become less willing to pay for repairs, and mechanics leave the business. In the... Read more...
The Mobile for Water (M4W) experiment has been undertaken as part of the IRC-led Triple-S initiative in Uganda and aimed to reduce service downtime and provide real time data on the performance of water services. Read more...
This paper examines the status, role and scope of knowledge management and networking in accelerating sanitation achievements in India and advocates... Read more...
Worldwide, traditional toilets are letting people down, with about 2.6 billion people using unsafe ones or defecating in the open. Read more...
Resource centres and their networks have a role to play in building the capacity of sector players to continually innovate, evolve and adapt—based on evidence. A learning and adaptive sector is critical for delivering sustainable services. Read more...
This video from the WASHTech project illustrates the challenges relating to sustainable services in WASH and how the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a systematic and participatory way of assessing and adopting technology innovation at scale, for services that last. Read more...
How do we choose the most effective technologies in the delivery of water supply, sanitation and hygiene services? Read more...
The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) provides a comprehensive assessment of sustainability indicators and considers the perspectives of technology users, producers and those introducing a technology. Read more...
A workshop, 'New Approaches to Scaling Up WASH Technologies', was organised at this year's UNC's Water and Health conference to introduce novel approaches to scaling up WASH technologies. One of these approaches is the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF). Read more...
There are many technologies that can be used to improve WASH services in developing countries. But what works where? How much will it cost, will the system last? And how are services going to be maintained? IRC will be presenting four innovative tools to tackle these questions at the Aquatech Trade... Read more...
Progress has been made in recent years with implementing the aid effectiveness framework. Various studies show that the volume of development... Read more...
Although aid effectiveness in the WASH sector has improved in recent years, vigorous steps are needed to counter measures that can jeopardise... Read more...
