Yesterday was World Water Day and we were flooded with high hopes and a celebratory mood. Goals for the sector have been set last year and there are no significant changes on the horizon. With a business as usual approach, are we really going to achieve the SDGs for the water sector? 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...
The RWSN Forum is the foremost global event on rural water services and takes place every 5 years. Read more...
United Nations and World Bank announce call for action at World Economic Forum. Read more...
IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty wishing you a wonderful 2016 Read more...
I was just at the Professional Women in Advocacy Conference . As I looked around the room, I realized it was the first professional conference where I did not know anyone. It made me recognize the WASH sector is lagging behind. Read more...
We all know that "he who pays the piper calls the tune" - but what if the tune is the wrong one for the times? Can pipers push for new tunes? IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty thinks so. Read more...
WASH Civil Society Organisations in Uganda are positioning themselves to engage effectively in the post 2015 development agenda. Read more...
Eliminating open defecation is not good enough. Real health gains require a bigger step up the sanitation ladder. Read more...
IRC's CEO explains why we're counting down five years instead of 15 - five years to get going on meaningful change Read more...
An Agenda for Change: a set of guiding principles and actions for achieving universal water, sanitation and hygiene services by 2030. Read more...
Experts discuss integrated approaches at IRC event in The Hague. Read more...
Positioning our work to champion sustainability and equity, and to catalyse change towards our vision of universal access by 2030. Read more...
Governments and donors have good news about their commitment to the SDGs. Read more...
IRC's Chief Executive Patrick Moriarty reflects on the highlights from the annual water conference in Stockholm. Read more...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have the target of reaching universal access to water and sanitation by 2030. But can this target realistically be achieved in the most difficult of settings: fragile states? Read more...
A summary of the side-event at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development July 15th 2015, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session highlighted how domestic resource mobilization is critical to the achievement of goal 6, and to fill the substantial gap between current levels of... Read more...
1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target. Read more...
The new Sustainable Development Goals require revolutionary change, as universal access to water and sanitation by 2030 is a revolutionary idea. But what brings us closer in achieving this? Bethel Terefe of IRC Ethiopia looked for answers at the third international conference on Financing For... Read more...
