A review of the Tanzanian water sector budget for 2021/22. Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
In recent years, donors have been making greater use of Payment by Results (PbR) approaches to fund development programmes. Read more...
Coming together to increase the political prioritisation of water, sanitation, and hygiene and ensure the integration of these services in national climate, health, and economic policies and strategies. Read more...
Lessons from Tanzania show that payment by results can help stakeholders achieve improved water point functionality. Read more...
Tackling Uganda's WASH, environment and climate change financing gap in Uganda. Read more...
How to hold governments accountable for timely bill payments to water utilities. Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
How a blending of service delivery models and finance within a district may hold the solution to financing safe water supplies for everyone. Read more...
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-... Read more...
A new briefing note tracks the state budget allocations for WASH for Bihar and Odisha. Read more...
Study seeks solutions for sustainable small-town water service delivery. Read more...
The Hon. Joseph Kofi Adda unfolds his ambitious goals at Stockholm World Water Week. Read more...
20 February 2017 you can listen to the very first episode of IRC's podcast WASH Talk. Read more...
IRC has compiled a growing repository of tools and guidance for strengthening WASH service delivery. Read more...
In 2014, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and IRC have started a collaboration to pilot the life-cycle cost approach in the context of refugee camps. Read more...
In the context of the devolution of political powers and responsibilities to the counties in Kenya, planning for water and sanitation services has to step up. Read more...
Water provision is one of the most complex services to be provided and maintained in a refugee camp. Given the fact that water is essential for people's health, it is very important for donors and implementing partners to guarantee a proper level of water service to everyone everyday. Read more...
An in-depth study of water provision in Burkina Faso has found that piped water systems provide a better service than handpumps, at a lower cost. Read more...