An Indian e-toilet manufacturer has partnered with a local animation institute to create hygiene promotion cartoons for schools. Read more...
The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) at UNICEF’s request conducted a study in Burkina Faso on analysing microbiology and physic-chemical quality of the water along its supply chain (welling, transport, storage).This was coupled with a study on behavioural... Read more...
Mr. Joseph Katabarwa, Environmental Health expert, Ministry of Health, Rwanda has been in touch with IRC since 1998 when he did a three-week course on Hygiene Promotion in Nairobi by Netwas International and IRC. Later he did two more courses in Kenya: one on Management for Sustainability in Water... Read more...
UAE-based charity Dubai Care has launched a program to improve hygiene education activities in 450 schools in the Indonesian provinces of Nusa Tenggara Timor, Papua, West Papua and South Sulawesi. In total, 90,000 schoolchildren in Indonesia will benefit from the program, which is a collaborative... Read more...
''... Our warmest thanks for your contribution to the success of the WASH Conference 2011. The training component of the event was an outstanding success with more than three quarters of the delegates to stay for the full week...” This is how Dr. Regina Souter, Programme Manager, International... Read more...
Open defecation and unsafe latrines together account for a high toll taken by water-borne diseases in South Asia. In fact, between 2008 and 2011, that is, the interval between SACOSAN III held in New Delhi and SACOSAN IV that recently concluded in Colombo, 750,000 children under 5 succumbed to... Read more...
This story was told to Juliet Waterkeyn by Amai (Mother) Toriro before she died in 2010 in Zimbabwe from an AIDS related illness. The key message that she wanted readers to know was that she had changed her life through becoming active with the help of a community health club. She did not die alone... Read more...
Sahel Solidarité received the Burkinabé Merit Order 2010 for its work in water and sanitation, health, education and environment. The NGO was the only organisation to receive this prestigious award for 2010 Read more...
In November 2010, WaterAid, with support from the research consortium SHARE, brought together 16 practitioners and researchers with expertise in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health, equity and inclusion, education and gender to share knowledge and experiences and develop a research... Read more...
The SaniFaso project was introduced in Burkina Faso in December 2010 with the aim of eradicating open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) throughout the country. For IRC, this is an excellent opportunity not only to embed the WASHCost results in the... Read more...
In a recent article in Capacity.org on lessons from WASH multi- stakeholder partnerships from 12 countries in Africa, two SNV authors use three IRC materials on sector learning in the six resources they list. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
Maintained by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this web page provides an online reference, including a searchable database, on enabling technologies for handwashing with soap for programme managers. Read more...
What does it cost to extend and sustain safe water and hygienic sanitation to poor communities in developing countries? Read more...
EMPOWERS has signed four agreements in Jordan to improve water and sanitation services in the Balqa Governorate, including three with village organisations. Read more...
