Innovative communication
Effective information exchange and two-way communication at all levels is essential for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene.
“Live” coverage from South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop
S.Vishwanath (aka Zenrainman) is providing “live” coverage from the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop in Bangladesh through a blog, on twitter and on You Tube.
Hygiene promotion: the role of media exposure, poverty and infrastructure on handwashing in Kenya
Structural constraints can limit hygiene practices in the very disadvantaged sections of a population, thus jeopardizing the potential success of hygiene promotion campaigns in those most at risk of disease.
Ghana journalist highlights water topics for Africa
Harriette Naa Lamiley Bentil is a senior environmental reporter with the Daily Graphic newspaper in Accra and a member of the Ghana Watsan Journalist Network (GWJN). She was sponsored by IRC to attend the World Water Week in Stockholm.
Burkina Faso: Multimedia tools help to change hygiene behaviour in Bokin district
Solar powered computers, digital cameras and projectors are being used in 20 remote villages in Burkina Faso to raise awareness over hygiene and help people adopt good practices. The NGO which has introduced the multi-media hygiene programmes believes that their high tech approach is having a higher impact on hygiene awareness, compared to using of pictures on cards.
Communication and media work for Water for Asian Cities
IRC has completed various outputs on regional communication and media work to generate public awareness for the Water for Asian Cities Programme (WAC), which is being implemented by UN-HABITAT since 2003 with local partners in India, the People’s Republic of China, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam.
Reporting 2.0: New technologies and local media talent change how we monitor water and sanitation
Can local journalists help improve accountability and transparency in development aid? This pilot project proposal uses journalism as a tool for independent reporting on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in Ghana. Read the proposal that was selected as a finalist in the 2009 "The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media" competition.
Water Wikis Search
This is a custom search engine that searches wikis on the web about water, sanitation and hygiene. It includes the Akvopedia, UN water wiki, a US water wiki, wikipedia. Wikis specific to water and sanitation are favoured over wikipedia in this search.
Making sense of water, sanitation and hygiene wikis
Watch a video, try a search engine and read about water, sanitation and hygiene wikis. There are several efforts ongoing with wikis. Juerg Staudenmann, UNDP, and Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, Akvo.org, and Nick Dickinson, IRC, talk about water wikis and how we can avoid duplicate work and instead support each other.
Advocacy
IRC has provided global and local advocacy training and advisory work since the early 1990s. First as secretariat of the Information, Education and Communication working group of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. Since 1995 IRC staff did increasing advocacy and communication advisory work at the request of agencies in China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda.
