Programmes and activities
Selection of programmes and activities of IRC and partners in South Asia.
An interview with Babar Kabir on the BRAC WASH programme
Babar Kabir is the Senior Director at BRAC and programme director of the BRAC WASH programme. He talks to Joep Verhagen about this huge programme, the importance of the Village WASH Committee, and emerging sanitation innovations.
Participatory monitoring in the BRAC WASH II programme in Bangladesh
“What is good about the monitoring system that we are using is that it is participatory so that respondents also get knowledge”, says Senior Sector Specialist Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Mahjabeen Ahmed of the BRAC WASH II Programme. Ms Ahmed is one of the 5,000 programme workers who are supporting BRAC WASH II in Bangladesh.
Making sense of sanitation monitoring in Bangladesh
Innovative monitoring tools such as the Qualitative Information System (QIS), sanitation ladders and SenseMaker® are being used in a programme that seeks to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to almost 55 million people in Bangladesh.
IRC signs MoU with India’s premier civil services training and research centre
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands, and India’s National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) are joining forces on capacity development and action research.
On 18 December 2012, the two institutes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi in the presence of the Secretary of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Mr. Pankaj Jain IAS.
Indian roundtable on sustainable drinking water services
In association with the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) and the Centre of Excellence for Change Management (CEC), the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organised a one-day Roundtable dedicated to the theme Sustainable Drinking Water Services at Scale: Everyone Forever. The discussions took place on 13 March 2013 in New Delhi. A number of materials were developed around this meeting which are available here.
High-level capacity building programme
In 2012-2013, a high-level capacity building programme for Officials of the Government of India and State Governments on sustainable Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programming is being conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation (MDWS), the Government of India, UNICEF and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, the Netherlands.
South Asia Sanitation and Hygiene workshops
Two yearly South Asia Sanitation and Hygiene practitioners’ workshops, started in 2007. The learning and sharing workshops are organised by BRAC, IRC, WaterAid and WSSCC. The 2010 workshop focused on hygiene and is part of a series of regional learning and sharing workshops on sanitation and hygiene organised by IRC and partners since 2007.
BRAC WASH Programmes
BRAC in Bangladesh started its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in 2006 in partnership with the Government. The programme provides sustainable and integrated WASH services to over 37 million people in the rural areas and aims to break the contamination cycle of unsanitary latrines, contaminated water and unsafe hygiene practices, as well as ensure sustainability and scaling-up of WASH services. IRC has provided support on design, capacity building and implementation of the programme, which is carried out with financial support of the Dutch Government, DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All
Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) programme funded by AusAID, DFID, private donors and DGIS and implemented by SNV, IRC and local and national governments and local NGOs in Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Duration: 2008 - 2015
SHAW
The 2010 - 2014 Sanitation, Hygiene And Water (SHAW) project is carried out within STBM, Indonesia’s national programme for Community-Led Total Sanitation with five ‘pillars’ on sanitation and hygiene practices. Within STBM, SHAW is looked at further developing Indonesia’s innovative approaches to promoting, monitoring and documenting behavioural change in sanitation and hygiene and building district and village capacities for developing, implementing and managing well-sustained district-wide sanitation and hygiene programmes.
