Completed Projects
A number of projects in which IRC has been involved have been completed. The background material on these projects can still be found in this folder.
4WS - completed project
Woman, Wellbeing, Work, Waste and Sanitation, known as 4WS, is an action research project on alternative strategies of environmental sanitation and waste management for improved health and socio-economic development in peri-urban coastal communities in South Asia. This is an INCO-DEV project from the EU.
EMPOWERS (completed 2007)
The Euro-Med Participatory Water Resources Scenarios (EMPOWERS), was a multi-country (Egypt, Jordan, West Bank/Gaza) research and development project led by Care International UK. The project (2003-2007) aimed to improve the access of poor users to water through improved water resource management.
EU-CAP (completed 2004)
European Union CAPacity building Project
Building Capacity for a Strategic Approach to Water Resources Development and Management European Union CAPacity building project
EU-CAP is a project led by HR Wallingford in the UK to raise awareness of, and develop training materials for, the European Commission's capacity-building project: "Guidelines for Water Resource Development - Towards Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Strategic Approach."
Finnida Water Policy
The Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs contracted IRC to conduct a literature, electronic and face-to-face review (starting in Autumn 2003) of Finland's contribution to water sector development, to ensure that this donor maximises its contribution to meeting the water supply and sanitation goals set by the international community for 2015.
GEMSA (completed 2004)
Gender Mainstreaming in South Africa
"Gender mainstreaming" denotes an approach to working at a community level that reflects an understanding of the different concerns, experiences and roles of the men and women concerned, and takes on board the implications this has for the way the work is planned and carried through whether this be conducting research, carrying out education or training programmes, or establishing water supply and sanitation facilities.
Hygiene Behaviour - completed
Do changes in hygiene behaviour last, and if so, what makes them last? What do the answers to these questions mean for our hygiene programmes? These are the main questions the hygiene behaviour research project intended to address. The research was funded by the European Commission under its INCO-programme (as part of the research framework programme) and by the Dutch Department for Development Cooperation.
JPO Programme
The Junior Professional Officer (JPO) programme was an exchange programme for young water and sanitation sector professionals in the Netherlands and their counterparts in developing countries. It aimed to strengthen the capacities of these young professionals in generating and sharing knowledge. It ended in 2006.
LoGo Water (completed 2007)
LoGo Water aimed at supporting local governments in the Southern Africa region to acitively engage in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Nine institutions and organisations from Southern Africa and the European Union which are specialising in different areas of water management and local government were implementing the project between January 2005 and December 2007. The project was funded by the European Commission Research Directorate General under the FP6 programme.
NEGOWAT (completed 2006)
NEGOWAT was a multi-partner research project (2003-2006) focused on developing methodologies to support negotiation of peri-urban water conflicts. These web pages include project information for research in India, and only summary information from Bolivia and Brasil. Further information from Latin America is available at www.negowat.org
RCD 18 Countries Programme
This programme - known as the RCD18 programme - promoted information sharing within the water sector, particularly at country level. It promoted better management and access to the wealth of knowledge, experience and understanding that exists at various levels. The RCD programme ran from 2002 to 2006 and was the result of a 1995 external evaluation of IRC and partners' collaboration.
