Driving, catalysing, supporting, acting as a backbone to foster sector change is what IRC is all about. Read more...
The correlation between access to drinking water, health, nutrition and other development indicators is well known. At sector level, this often translates into the requirement to allocate additional funding to new infrastructure (in the rural sector, mainly to water points), that would naturally... Read more...
It's hard to predict what impact investments and innovations in the water sector will have on citizens' access to services. Understanding underlying mechanisms and potential bottlenecks of change can help decide how and where to invest resources, while also giving a more realistic picture of the... Read more...
IRC country director of Uganda, Jane Nabunnya Mulumba reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: building on the legacy of Triple-S and reaching the national targets for water and sanitation coverage Read more...
IRC country director of Ghana Vida Duti reflects back on 2014 and sets her goals for the coming year: consolidating the successes! Read more...
Ghana's new service monitoring framework provides important insights on underlying causes of water system failure. At WEDC, the framework and findings regarding handpump failure were discussed. Read more...
This second post - in a series of articles on water resources management by Charles Batchelor and John Butterworth - looks at water services from a water resource management (WRM) perspective. In the first article we discussed IWRM and the 'i' for integration in water resources management. Read more...
In this blog Patrick Moriarty reflects on Stockholm World Water Week 2014. There is good progress in language (and some tools) around the role of government in delivering services, he argues. But it's still an uphill struggle on who pays for what. Read more...
The Guardian's Eliza Anyangwe speaks with IRC's CEO Patrick Moriarty on donor funding and short-term water projects that break down on a massive scale around the world. 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...
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene are of critical importance for the people living in camps, but they don't come cheap and many refugees are not going anywhere soon. Read more...
In an on-going study in partnership with UNHCR, IRC is setting-up a methodology to measure the cost of providing water services to refugee population. Read more...
IRC believes in a world where water, sanitation and hygiene services are fundamental utilities that everyone is able to take for granted, forever. But we are concerned about the pervasive issue of violence against women being subsumed under the urgent need to promote public attention to the global... Read more...
THE HAGUE, 28 April 2014 – IRC has launched a new website – www.ircwash.org – to promote the development of effective and sustainable water and sanitation services. IRC is targeting its new website and expertise at the failings of short-term, charity-based interventions and promoting the... Read more...
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation has awarded US$ 3 million to IRC to ensure that over the next three years, 1.3 million people in 13 rural districts in Ghana will have access to water services that last: not just for a year or two - but indefinitely. Read more...
To deliver WASH services that last, the whole system of individuals, organisations, technologies and the institutions that link them needs to work, and work more effectively. 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...
IRC's webinar of November 2013 brought together experiences on Self-supply on water services from East and West Africa. Read more...
Video illustrating the challenge facing technology to provide sustainable water services. Read more...
There are many technologies that can be used to improve WASH services in developing countries. But what works where? How much will it cost, will the system last? And how are services going to be maintained? IRC proudly presents its four new tools to tackle these questions. Read more...
