Publications use
Use and impact of IRC publications
Using IRC manual for one-week training of communities in Nigeria
Priscilla M. Achakpa from Nigeria has used half the content of one of the IRC manuals on community water management for a simplified manual that the Women Environmental Programme is using in one-week training programmes for the communities.
IRC work featuring in microfinance market study
IRC’s Catarina Fonseca and Stef Smits and nine publications from IRC and partners are featuring in: Assessing Micro finance for Water and Sanitation – Exploring opportunities for sustainable scaling up, a study by Meera Mehta for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Seven references to IRC papers and books on financing in Water Policy article
Peter Harvey from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) in the UK used seven references to IRC papers and books on financing and community management in his peer- reviewed article Cost determination and sustainable financing for rural water services in sub-Saharan Africa, published in: Water Policy Volume 9 Number 4 2007.
Six IRC titles selected in peer review on decision-making support tools
Six IRC books have been selected by international authors in their wider selection of 120 existing support resources to assist decision-making support tools for WASH practitioners.
Small Community Water Supplies book: “…both a technology reference and decision-making tool”
“This is an impressive book mainly for its scope, but also for the comparison tables and detailed technical information that is contained in nearly every chapter."
Linking Technology Choice with Operation and Maintenance book reviewed for decision-making support tools
“Linking Technology Choice with Operation and Maintenance in the Context of Community Water Supply and Sanitation” has been selected and peer reviewed by international authors among the18 support resources “that most closely resembled decision-making tools” that help guiding practitioners to the most appropriate water and sanitation solutions.
"Thanks for wonderful CD-ROM for my teaching"
Thanks very much for the 50th Source Bulletin and the wonderful CD-ROM with all the electronic IRC publications that IRC has published since 1998.
Seven IRC titles used in article for Indian bureaucrats
Seven of the 27 references used by Nandita Singh in an article Women, Society and Water Technologies, Lessons for Bureaucracy in Gender, Technology and Development, Vol. 10, No. 3, 341-360 in 2006 are earlier IRC flagship publications. Based on an ethnographic study in rural India the author provided lessons from the past for bureaucrats in India.
Life skills book used in Hygiene Promotion IYS
The IRC/UNICEF guidance book on Life Skills-Based Hygiene Education is featuring on the web site of the International Year of Sanitation web site.
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