Good news from Ghana! IRC Ghana and its contribution to help build Ghana's rural water monitoring seems to be going very well. "Indeed, we are firmly on the path to support the establishment of a national system for rural water monitoring in Ghana", says country director Vida Duti. Read more...
We are delighted to announce that the WASHCost e-book, Priceless! Uncovering the real costs of water and sanitation, is available for free download on IRCWASH from September 2014. Read more...
Universal coverage of water, sanitation and hygiene looks set to be included in the Sustainable Development Goals. What finally ends up in these goals will determine the agenda for the WASH sector for decades to come. Read more...
Even though the global system of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) monitoring lacks coherence, the small steps being made give reason for optimism. Read more...
Donor funded projects often have a lot of resources attached to monitor the outputs and outcomes of their investments. This is an important and valid concern, but do you ever wonder if this makes any difference to efforts led by permanent, national institutions who are supposed to be monitoring... Read more...
Finding from the second round of water service delivery monitoring in Ghana. Read more...
In a bid to enhance monitoring of rural water service delivery in Uganda, IRC/Triple-S Initiative in conjunction with the Ministry of Water and Environment undertook to develop a set of Service Delivery Indicators (SDIs). Read more...
Monitoring, capacity development and learning for improvement are often addressed as separate processes.Improving sector performance requires a more integrated approach. Read more...
Delft Symposium session takes capacity building as its central theme. Read more...
Learning models were a topic highlight at the second day of IHE-UNESCO's 3-day 5th Delft Symposium on Water Capacity Development. Read more...
Key participants in Ethiopia's WASH services come together. Read more...
The number of initiatives to strengthen WASH service delivery monitoring is growing. New tools are being developed and international indicators are being refined. The Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium 2013 will provide a global platform for sharing these initiatives, tools,... Read more...
On Friday 12 April 2013 there will be the African Ministers’ Council on Water: African monitoring & evaluation steering committee meeting, chaired by the African Union Commission. This is a closed meeting. Read more...
Once the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reach the target year of 2015, a new period of global monitoring for the WASH sector will begin. Over the last 20 years, discrepancies between data from the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) on water and sanitation in the MDGs, and the water and... Read more...
Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
IRC has partnered with SIMAVI on an innovative project which applies the 5 pillars of the STBM, Indonesia's national sanitation programme. Building on our expertise, we will provide inputs on monitoring, documentation and knowledge management and capacity building of project stakeholders to reach 1... Read more...