The World Bank in Ethiopia has commissioned a rapid survey of what motivates people to upgrade their latrines, with the aim of delivering behaviour change communication materials with greater impact. Read more...
Building on the lessons of the Sanitation Innovation Accelerator Read more...
Joined forces at the Kampala WASH Symposium identify what stands in the way of sustainability. Read more...
Ennovent, IRC and TARU Leading Edge offer entrepreneurs a platform to scale innovations. Read more...
The SuSanA Forum hosts nominees for the Sarphati Sanitation Award for Young Entrepreneurs 2015 Read more...
On the 23 April 2015, a technical discussion was held at the Jupiter hotel in Addis Ababa to debate the findings of a study "Private Sector Landscape for WASH in Ethiopia – Bottlenecks and opportunities" commissioned by UNICEF and undertaken by IRC within the scope of the DFID-funded One WASH Plus... Read more...
IRC is involved in an exciting programme to stimulate businesses in products and systems for household water treatment and storage: Safe Water Phase 2. Read more...
Within the context of the Ghana WASH Window (GWW), a delegation of 15 Ghanaian companies /NGOs/knowledge Institutions and 7 government officials were received by the Netherlands Water Partnership in the first week of October 2014 (29 sept. -3 Oct.). Read more...
The Dutch government has introduced a trade-based approach to development. Is this good or bad for the WASH sector? Read more...
The Guardian's Eliza Anyangwe speaks with IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty on donor funding and short-term water projects that break down on a massive scale around the world. Read more...
IRC is part of the Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking 2014 - a joint initiative with Dutch (Aqua for All, Simavi, WASTE) and international (BMGF, Euromoney, Water and Sanitation Program - World Bank and the World Toilet Organisation) organisations. The Global Sanitation Business Matchmaking... Read more...
A new initiative is launched to stimulate investment in large-scale sanitation services for the poor Read more...
Sanitation professionals look at ways of improving public and private sanitation service delivery. Read more...
Investing in employee WASH = healthy and more productive employees. Read more...
The 'Value at the end of the Sanitation Value-chain' (VeSV) project aims to develop and adopt business models for a low cost, safe method for the collection and processing of faecal sludge from pit latrines; a method that can be operated by local entrepreneurs and results in the production of a... Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
Small-scale private providers increase water supply coverage and reduce time spent on fetching water, often providing a vital service, particularly for low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the absence of a coherent policy framework with effective tariff enforcement and water... Read more...