This article on strengthening institutional water, sanitation and hygiene services has been published in the Bangladeshi Daily Sun newspaper. Read more...
Global Handwashing Day in Addis Ababa was celebrated at a local primary school in the attendance of many dignitaries. Read more...
A call for safely managed sanitation. Read more...
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us. Read more...
Does using a household water filter help in improving water quality and reduce incidence of diarrhoea? Read more...
An enabling environment will stimulate financiers to invest in Safe Water business. Read more...
With many of the seasonal water sources failing due to poor rains, there has been considerable reliance on a limited number of high-yielding water schemes whose ongoing performance is critical to the drought response. Read more...
Solutions that benefit both consumers and suppliers are required. Read more...
Cholera flared up in Haiti after hurricane Matthew. A humanitarian crisis can trigger the outbreak of waterborne diseases. Read more...
Can service delivery approaches help deal with the interrelated threats of climate change, water security and disease outbreak? Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. Read more...
In this blog, IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty reflects on Bill Gates's meeting with the Dutch parliamentarians and development organisations to discuss development cooperation in The Hague. Read more...
"The spreading of Ebola and a range of water and sanitation related diseases can be dramatically reduced by strengthening and promoting hygiene behaviours," says IRC's Africa Regional Programme Manager and Hygiene and Sanitation specialist Alana Potter. Read more...
Ebola is spreading fast and continues to plague West Africa. One of the countries hardest hit is Sierra Leone. With numbers of infected people rising every day, measures are taken to contain it. Read more...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation. Is that actually true and do we really need to prove that water and sanitation interventions have a health impact? Read more...
A unique handwashing campaign jointly funded by SHARE (source) and the Wellcome Trust has shown for the first time that using emotional motivators – such as feelings of disgust and nurture – rather than health messages, can result in significant, long-lasting improvements in people's handwashing... Read more...
