Safe drinking water and sanitation is a human right, but it's going to be costly. How serious are world leaders to reach everyone by 2030? And where will the money come from? Read more...
The Conference Financing for Development (13 – 16 July 2015) will make a strong call on the importance of increased domestic public finance towards funding the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
IRC Ghana Country Director Vida Duti will be one of the speakers at the philanthropy platform in Accra. Read more...
In this blog, I explain the process behind my research on human rights in Burkina Faso's water and sanitation sector. The resulting research report focuses on how the integration of sanitation as a human right in national policies and strategies can improve access to sanitation in rural areas, in... Read more...
THE HAGUE - Four leading international water, sanitation and hygiene organisations IRC, Wateraid, Aguaconsult, and Water For People join hands in the run-up to the new Sustainable Development Goals. Today they presented a set of shared principles to achieve universal access to water and sanitation... Read more...
Four leading international WASH organisations IRC, WaterAid, Aguaconsult, and Water for People join hands in the run-up to the new Sustainable Development Goals. Read more...
Dutch Olympic sailor Carolijn Brouwer will launch a "Menstrual Hygiene Call to Action" at an event in Scheveningen, The Hague on 19 June 2015. Read more...
A paradigm shift is needed to reach the ambitious new Sustainable Development Goals that propose reaching universal water and sanitation coverage with sustainable services for all by 2030. This implies shifting focus by all actors in the water and sanitation sector from construction of water and... Read more...
Where will the money come to finance water and sanitation for all by 2030? Not from development aid. Developing countries need to get better at raising taxes. Read more...
A message from IRC Uganda and Ministry of Water and Environment on the occasion of World Water Day 2015 Read more...
"World Water Day is the most important day of the year," said Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen during the Dutch World Water Day event on Friday 20 March 2015 in Amsterdam. "In fact, it is World Water Day every day", she said. Read more...
THE HAGUE, 18 March 2015 – On 22 March 2015 we celebrate World Water Day. Everyone has a right to safe water and sanitation. How can we make sure that people who get water and sanitation services, also keep them? Share your stories! Read more...
Nothing less than universal and equitable access to water and sanitation for all by 2030 is what the world wants. Some 50 Dutch water and development specialists came to The Hague on March 4th, 2015, to discuss what it will take to make this goal a reality. Read more...
In this blog, economist and IRC's head of innovation and international programme Catarina Fonseca argues that taxation is crucial in reaching the post-2015 development agenda. "Tax is a prerequisite for governments to become truly democratically accountable to their people," she says. Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
Unlike droughts, floods and oil spills, non-functioning water and sanitation systems seldom make the headlines, even though water crises top the list of global risks. Read more...
Save the date! IRC Event March 4th, 2015, 17.00-18.30, The Hague. This year, the Sustainable Development Goals will be agreed upon by the UN Member States. Come and discuss what is new, what is different and what does it mean for the different organisations working in the sector. Go to our Events... Read more...
This year, the UN will launch the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). How will they differ from the existing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what will the implications be for the sector? One of the main differences between the MDGs and SDGs is the focus on universal access as compared... Read more...
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of... Read more...
WHO is launching a global plan of action to improve access to WASH at all health care facilities. This kind of intersectoral collaboration is set to become a major theme in the post-2015 development agenda. Read more...
