"I am calling on WASH and health professionals to change the way we address hygiene promotion", says Juste Nansi, Country Director IRC Burkina Faso. Read more...
Access to clean water, improved sanitation, and good hygiene services are essential human rights that significantly improve health, education, and overall well-being. However, in Ethiopia, millions still lack access to these services. Read more...
Ethiopia has launched a national hand hygiene road map as well as a food and personal hygiene protocol for the school feeding programme. Read more...
Join us for the launch of district sanitation and hygiene services for communities' project | Venue: District Assembly Hall, Kenyasi | Date: June 7, 2022 | Time: 09:30 Read more...
Join us for the Safe Water Strategy e-Learning series Can your doctor wash his/her hands? Votre médecin peut-il se laver les mains? Join an engaging virtual bilingual [English and French] event on reaching universal and sustainable WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene) services in health care... Read more...
Balancing safe water needs, demands, and rights to water for the people of Kabende sub county, Kabarole district in Uganda Read more...
Each year the SAVE LIVES: World Health Organisation's Clean Your Hands campaign aims to progress the goal of maintaining a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to 'bring people together' in support of hand hygiene improvement globally. WHO calls on everyone to be... Read more...
In Burkina? Join us for a live event in Stadium Esplanade of August 4th, Ouagadougou Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October 2020, 03:00 pm. Read more...
Join us for this first virtual edition in our series of WASH Debates. We will present two seemingly conflicting perspectives on how the WASH sector should approach climate change. Read more...
Démarrage du projet de renforcement des capacités des municipalités du Burkina Faso dans la gouvernance de l’eau potable, de l’hygiène et de l’assainissement. Read more...
What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries learn from Kenya's successful approach to improve menstrual health management? Read more...
IRC will share it's experiences and set the scene for seven rich sessions on monitoring and using evidence to improve hygiene & sanitation. Read more...
New report by WHO and UNICEF sets the baseline for ambitious global goals. Read more...
Patrick Moriarty and Stef Smits talk about the importance of taking on a systems approach in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. Read more...
20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk. Read more...
Why the absence of sanitation and hygiene services causes girls to drop out of school. Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
On 17 March, IRC made a key presentation on factors that enhance and hinder effective WASH in school programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. This was for a Kenyan delegation from Nakuru who were in the Netherlands for the Football for Water programme. Read more...
A unique opportunity for countries to discuss their plans to meet the targets of the new SDGs Read more...
Ministers of Sanitation and Water and Sector Leaders to Discuss the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Meeting of Ministers of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 15-16 March 2016. It is an unique... Read more...