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.
This document sets out a series of participatory exercises that can be used to design a 2-4 day programme focused on sector strengthening for... Read more...
This introductory chapter describes the origin and development of Learning Alliances, key concepts, expected outcomes and the steps and activities... Read more...
This presentation describes how the NGO Splash uses schools as catalysts to promote city-wide community water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) coverage. Read more...
A discussion on ways to use existing systems to improve scale and sustainability of hygiene promotion efforts. Read more...
Existing models used for financing water infrastructure development do not seem very applicable to the realities of small towns. Read more...
Neither rural sustainability checks, nor urban benchmarking frameworks, are entirely suitable for monitoring small town water services. Read more...
Interventions that ensure women have access to private facilities with water for Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) and that educate women about... Read more...
How do you make development programmes inclusive and what challenges do you face. Read more...
This brief presents the lessons learnt and advocacy messages from this e-discussion for influencing sector discourse on this topic and ensuring that... Read more...
This report reviews the landscape of technologies, methods, and approaches that can support and improve on the water and sanitation indicators... Read more...
An interview with IRC's Head International Programme Catarina Fonseca on increasing water sector financing by improving governance. Read more...
The District Strategy for achieving full water coverage (2017 to 2025) provides the framework for the implementation of water activities and services... Read more...
How are IWRM and WASH related, what are the steps already taken and what is still needed for integration? Read more...
Strengthening and clarifying the capacity of local government institutions is critical to the success of SDG6 (Water) and contributes to SDG16 (... Read more...
This document sets out some of the main service authority and service provider functions required for delivery of sustainable rural water supply... Read more...
IRC webinar presentation with findings from a landscaping study of frameworks being used to assess WASH systems Read more...
This paper briefly describes the state of the evidence on menstrual hygiene management (MHM) in schools, the remaining knowledge gaps, and potential... Read more...
This document is a guide to orient UNICEF country staff to support governments to strengthen the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) enabling... Read more...
