Regional WASH Officer | IRC Uganda
Mary Ayoreka Concepta is the Regional WASH Officer of IRC Uganda. She is based at IRC’s office in Fort Portal City. Mary Concepta holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health Science from Makerere University - School of Public Health and is completing a Master of Public Health at the University of Manchester.
She has previously worked at Nansana Municipal Council and AMREF Health Africa and has 3 years’ experience in implementing and managing Environmental Health projects including Community Based Research, WASH integrated with communicable disease prevention and control, health and nutrition education and other public health support services.
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 2 - "Markets and behaviour change : how people invest and driving to scale" session of the All Systems... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 4 - Governments, politics and systems change session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium... Read more...
Presentations from the CONNECT Finance thematic track of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
The Transform WASH Activity in Ethiopia has significantly contributed to advancing market-based sanitation approaches and promoting gender equality... Read more...
Learning alliances are critical for bringing together relevant WASH stakeholders from government WASH sector offices at the woreda and zone levels,... Read more...
There is decades of evidence of the disproportionate impact of WASH on women and girls, but relatively few women at the decision-making table. Learn... Read more...
Achievements and key messages from the USAID Transform WASH programme (2017 to 2023) in Ethiopia. Read more...
Achievements and key messages from the USAID Transform WASH programme (2017 to 2023) in Ethiopia. Read more...
Ministry of Water and Energy (Ethiopia), COWASH, SNV and IRC reflecting on partnership work in Ethiopia Read more...
While alignment on a common vision may be a defining aspect of WASH collaborative approaches, some alignment around specific activities is also... Read more...
Recommendations on coordination of initiatives and professionalisation of rural water supply maintenance. Read more...
The leveraging experience has opened new windows of opportunity for better collaboration and partnerships between NGOs and government, and may... Read more...
Three factors – legitimacy of the collaborative, aligning activities within clear mandates, and demonstrating value – all work together to secure... Read more...
All the learning alliances continue functioning at generally healthy — albeit varying — levels of interaction, particularly when considering the... Read more...
Testing approaches to strengthen the sustainability and performance of WASH service delivery systems. Read more...
Guidance and tools for designing, developing, planning, implementing and monitoring and evaluation of a market-based sanitation approach and related... Read more...
Recording of a webinar on lessons learned after nearly four years of intensive research on the use of collective action in WASH by the USAID-... Read more...
Harmonizing institutionalized monitoring, national benchmarks, improving the data culture and acting upon monitoring results will be essential in... Read more...