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.
Promoting safely managed sanitation, market-based sanitation and public-private partnerships (PPPs). Read more...
How market-based solutions revolutionised sanitation in 30 districts in Ethiopia from 2017 to 2024, enhancing access to affordable WASH products and... Read more...
The transition from water trucking towards sustainable, utility-led water service models for long-term refugee populations. Read more...
Training local masons on the DQ Selling® approach for door-to-door sales of sanitation products in rural areas. Read more...
This report is part of the joint project undertaking by Uganda Government agencies: the Ministry of Water and Environment and the National Planning... Read more...
Ce rapport analyse les défis et les progrès en matière d'eau, d'assainissement et d'hygiène (WASH) au Mali, en utilisant les données de 2022 pour... Read more...
This learning note summarises the findings of USAID Transform WASH's activities in Ethiopia to explore progress towards universal sanitation coverage... Read more...
This paper introduces the concept of Learning Alliances, a structured process of innovation and scaling up of innovation in the water and sanitation... Read more...
Even in the worst case scenario, the benefits of mutliple use water services outweigh the costs at both household and system levels Read more...
This paper reviews the experiences gained by the SWITCH consortium (of 33 partners) in grappling with stakeholder engagement in urban water... Read more...
The potential for corruption in water licensing is an important issue. Preventive actions to reduce the risk of corruption are explored. Read more...
The process, benefits, challenges, and learnings of water safety planning (WSP) in an Ethiopian district, using a mixed method approach and a six-... Read more...
This document chronicles the establishment of water safety planning teams in South Ari Woreda and four pilot kebeles within the woreda, the... Read more...
A summary of an expert debate held at the All Systems Connect Symposium 2023 in The Hague. Read more...
World Toilet Day comemmoration Read more...
People continue to treat menstruation with shame and hesitate to talk about it, yet it is something natural and normal. Besides, some cultural and religious beliefs have made menstruation seem dirty, unacceptable and a shameful process, which demeans and compromises a girl's social standing. Read more...
The woreda-wide approach (WWA) is a well-established model for improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) systems at the local level. Its... Read more...
Pour changer les systèmes, il faut un «Conteur, un Expert et un Homme Politique». Histoires d'acteurs du changement au Malawi, au Honduras, en... Read more...
Para cambiar los sistemas se necesita un "narrador de historias, un experto y un político". Historias de agentes de cambio en Malawi, Honduras,... Read more...
It takes a 'Story Teller, an Expert, and a Politician' to make systems change happen. Stories from change makers in Malawi, Honduras, Uganda,... Read more...
