Former IRC Programme Officer
The WaterCube has launched again with its fourth edition at the Stockholm World Water Week 2011. It is a collaboration between Avo, SIWI and IRC to capture and track the people and ideas floating in the global WASH sector. Read more...
Scenario building and trends analysis for the WASH sector Read more...
What works in hygiene and sanitation programming and what does not? Why, with so many good experiences and advances, are basic needs and challenges not met? What are our future priorities? These questions were addressed in eight regional practitioners’ workshops, held in four continents, during... Read more...
In 2010, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) and the World Bank conducted a study to improve understanding of the financing of on-site sanitation at the household level through analysis of field experiences in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India (Maharashtra), Mozambique, Senegal, Viet Nam. Read more...
In rural India, extremes of coercion are being used to encourage toilet use writes Liz Chatterjee in the Guardian's Poverty Matters blog. Her provocative post has drawn comments from the likes of Robert Chambers, Rose George, Ned Breslin and Erik Harvey. Read more...
Risks that can impair development effectiveness in the urban water supply sector are multidimensional, says a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This highlights the sector's vulnerability to risks in the absence of appropriate mitigating measures. Read more...
This table presents the workshops and the main documents that you can find on this CD-rom. All materials are also available via IRC's website (to use the weblinks below you need internet access). Read more...
Updates from the Learning for Change project team. Read more...
An overview of KM strategies Read more...
In order to gain insight in the barriers within the transfer of technology for emergency water and sanitation applications in developing countries a partnership between the University of Glasgow and Oxfam GB was formed under the Enhanced Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance initiative... Read more...
In 2010, UNDP's Poverty Group and Environment and Energy Group launched a joint project to examine to what extent the domestic private sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) contributes to achieving the target for access to safe water under MDG7. The project carried out in-depth case studies of three... Read more...
Summary of findings from an event about networks. Read more...
Comments on Day 3 of the RMA workshop Read more...
Comments on Day 2 of the RMA workshop. Read more...
From Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 April (2011), a workshop will bring together the coordinators of resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda together with their counterpart at IRC for a learning and sharing workshop. Read more...
