East Africa
In East Africa, IRC's activities are very much geared towards the district levels. Stimulating learning and sharing at the district level are at the heart of the East Africa programme. In Uganda this is being done throughout the LeaPPs programme: focusing on household sanitation and hygiene. In Ethiopia, as consortium partner within the RiPPLE project, IRC aims to advance evidence-based learning on water supply and sanitation throughout the creation of Learning and Practice Alliances.
West Nile Accountability
This is a EU funded project ‘Improving Governance in WASH through local dialogues in West Nile, Uganda'. Its main objective is to help create accountable and responsive WASH services for rural communities in Moyo, Adjumani and Nebbi districts and in Amuru sub-county. IRC will work together with two local partners in Uganda.
PILS
IRC, NETWAS Uganda and Caritas Gulu joined forces in the “Performance Improvement through Learning on Sanitation”, PILS project. This two-year project started off in October 2009 and assista local government and NGOs to improve rural household and school sanitation and hygiene. This has to be realised by facilitating district- and sub-county-based learning and action research. PILS is based on the approach piloted in LeaPPS. The project focuses on three districts of North Uganda: Pader, Gulu and Kitgum. The project is being funded by the Austrian Development Agency.
National Learning Forum
Uganda's Ministry of Water and Environment, SAWA and the international NGOs SNV and IRC will organise a number of events around learning called National Learning Forums. This in order to help the national agencies to learn to do better in policy and strategy and to help the implementers to improve their performance. The ‘good practices’ are in four areas: integrated water resources management, water supply, rural sanitation, and water and sanitation at schools.
Information Use in Uganda
Exploratory research into the dissemination of knowledge and information on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) at decentralized levels of government in Uganda.
LeaPPS
LeaPPS wants to improve sanitation and hygiene programmes by sharing and learning at district and local levels. This programme is currently running in four districts of Uganda: Kyenjojo, Kamwenge, Arua and Koboko.
RiPPLE
RiPPLE is a five-year research programme to advance evidence-based learning on water supply and sanitation financing, delivery and sustainability and improve equity of access for the poor in Ethiopia and the Nile region. IRC will play a substantial part in this research programme which will run from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2011.
WASH News East Africa
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