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Bridging the knowledge gap and joint learning with partners for improved, low-cost water supply, sanitation and hygiene in developing countries.
Bridging the knowledge gap and joint learning with partners for improved, low-cost water supply, sanitation and hygiene in developing countries.
IRC moves back to The Hague IRC is on the move. After almost a decade in Delft, sharing a building with UNESCO – IHE Institute for Water Education, the IRC team will move back to The Hague in mid December 2008.
Minister: Provision of access to water for productive uses crucial for poverty alleviation “Access to water for basic domestic uses alone is not sufficient. People also require access to water for small-scale productive uses. Food security still is one of the major points on the agenda of the Government of Ethiopia. Food production needs to be stimulated, particularly at the local level. This can also create a bigger impulse to the economies. The provision of access to water for productive uses is crucial in that.” This is how Ethiopia’s Minister for Water Resources opened the MUS symposium, in a speech read by his advisor.
The Atieno Family - to be continued Artists Joseph Nzomo and Salim Busuru from Kenya created the family and the comic strip which tells the story of their lives in the slums. In the weeks leading to the IRC symposium (19-21 Nov) we will regularly add pages to the strip book. In the week of the symposium it can be downloaded in full.
comic-to-publish-on-website.doc (722 kB)
Slippage of WASH Services: Causes, Costs and How to Counter Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India, First week of March 2009
The main objectives of the workshop are to quantify the scale and extent of the challenge of “slippage of WASH services” and to increase the understanding of the main causes. Secondly the workshop is about disseminating the results of the research and workshop, and scaling-up of good practices related to the WASH slippage challenge.
Suggestions for strengthening Community-Led Total Sanitation While Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is a relative success in a growing number of countries, there are also some difficulties in sustaining the momentum and results with equity: freedom from open defecation, safe and durable toilets, hygienic use of toilets etc. There are also possibilities to include gender on equity and the poor more structurally than is currently done. This paper is a summary of potential steps for addressing these issues. It draws on the experiences of IRC's thematic group on sanitation.
CLTS_WASH_Sanitation_2008.pdf (133 kB)
UK/Netherlands: joint water and sanitation initiative to help millions in Africa and Asia A joint UK/Netherlands initiative to provide millions of people in Africa and Asia with safe drinking water and good sanitation was launched in New York this week.
Lessons from inception phase WASHCost programme Understanding of life cycle unit costs for more sustainable water sanitation and hygiene facilities and services is increasing in Ghana following the launch of the WASHCost programme in the country.
Sustainability of rural water supply systems in Honduras by involving technicians in applied field research Within the collaborative programme between IRC and RAS-HON (the Water and Sanitation Network of Honduras), applied field research is being carried out on different aspects, which affect the sustainability of rural water supply systems in Honduras. This is done by Operation and Maintenance Technicians (TOMs), who provide post-construction support to community-managed services. The first field research focused on multiple-use of water, which showed that the regulation of such uses could contribute to more sustainable services. A second round of field research is starting now, and aims to map experiences with transparency and accountability at community level.
Prince of Orange praises IRC/UNICEF’s school sanitation work "I highly commend the work of UNICEF worldwide, an organization that has been instrumental in bringing this book to fruition; and of its partner in my own country, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in Delft. School sanitation is one of the important approaches covered in these pages, and represents real hope for a healthier future for millions of the world’s citizens.”
His Royal Highness Prince Willem-Alexander, Chairperson, UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, in his Foreword to the book: The last taboo : opening the door on the global sanitation crises from renowned authors Maggie Black and Ben Fawcett published by Earthscan in the UK and USA 2008.
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