Southern Africa Regional Programme (SARP)
IRC's focus in the Southern Africa region is to strengthen intermediate levels [province, district, municipality] capacities of the various actors involved in pro-poor WASH governance. WASH governance taking place in a local IWRM context.
The Southern Africa Regional Programme (SARP) consists of two main components:
- Enhancing regional knowledge networking, so as to facilitate and support organisations and networks to effectively address the key WASH issues;
- Knowledge development, innovation, documentation and sharing initially mainly in South Africa but also in other countries in the region, in a number of prioritised thematic areas.
WASH News Southern Africa
News feed maintained by information specialists from IRC and partners.
Mozambique
With various partners in Mozambique IRC is working on a range of themes including water financing, governance, knowledge management and transparency and accountability.
South Africa
With various partners in South Africa IRC is working on a sector wide approach and local governance so that the water sector has more impact on the WASH MDGs.
Southern Africa: knowledge network for sustainable sanitation launched
The Ecological Sanitation Research group (EcoSanRes) at Stockholm Environment Institute has launched the Southern Africa knowledge node on sustainable sanitation (SAKNSS).
Decentralisation practice
Implementing the decentralisation of water and sanitation services is a key topic in many developing countries. Decentralisation involves transfer of functions, assets, staff, infrastructure and budget from the national level to the local level. Here we are publishing case studies and papers from decentralisation in practice from countries in Southern Africa. Experience in South Africa illustrates that this process is not an easy one, even though they successfully undertook the process as part of the sector wide approach (SWAp) in a collaborative manner.
SWAps
Building the water sector in Southern Africa through collaboration by involving key stakeholders and using the sector wide approach (SWAp).
The Southern Africa regional team is sharing lessons about SWAps in the water sector with other countries on the continent. A set of SWAp presentations and materials (including outputs from SWAp processes) are currently being prepared and assembled as part of a Water Sector Swap package.
