A 2-week training programme to introduce Water Services that Last and Costing Sustainable Services curricula to BSc students and educational staff of the University Eduardo Mondlane - Rural Engineering School was held in March 2014. Read more...
Understanding the difference between charity, venture philanthropy and impact investing is key to getting businesses and programmes funded Read more...
The developments in the sanitation sector are moving quickly. We are seeing some interesting new further development within the sector emerging. As cited in the last blog on the Uganda Unclogging the blockages of sanitation workshop, there is a new wave of freshness in the air in which we see the... Read more...
Free courses to help plan and budget sustainable water sanitation and hygiene services. Read more...
An event held to support regional implementation of Self-supply. Read more...
Internet and social media can be powerful tools to tell accurate, interesting WASH stories. Eight participants from the new Multimedia Journalism and Water course of RNTC (Radio Netherlands Training Centre) and IRC concluded that at the end of their three-week stay in Hilversum. They left for home... Read more...
Internet and social media can be powerful tools to tell interesting WASH stories and therefore IRC and Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) have decided to combine their skills. IRC is contributing WASH know-how and RNTC their multimedia skills to get water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)... Read more...
Note: dates have changed from 9-13 September to 25-29 November 2013 This five day course in Amsterdam, The Netherlands gives senior water sector professionals an understanding of the key elements in delivering sustainable rural water services at scale. It provides examples and models from various... Read more...
Eighteen senior water service professionals from Timor-Leste, Ghana, Uganda, India, Burkina Faso, Belgium, and The Netherlands gathered from 12 to 16 November 2012 in The Netherlands to participate in the training event: ‘An Introduction to the Concepts of Service Delivery: The Role of the Service... Read more...
IRC Director Nico Terra officially inaugurated the second international training programme for high level officials of the Government of India on 19 November 2012. Read more...
IRC is offering this free online course to assist governments, NGOs, donors and individuals to plan and budget for sustainable and equitable WASH services, using a life-cycle cost approach (LCCA). Register online at: costingsustainableservicesonlinecourse-rss.eventbrite.com Read more...
The WASH Process Documentation Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda in September 2011, was successful in encouraging participants to become more enthusiastic about process documentation and its benefits. Process Documentation provides a systematic way to capture what happens in a process of change, and... Read more...
Documenting change is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving the work carried out in development initiatives. Read more...
A training workshop held in Poland introduced water specialists, researchers and professionals working on other development issues to 'process documentation', an approach to document and jointly learn from change processes. Read more...