Programmes and activities
Selection of programmes and activities of IRC and partners in South Asia.
Slippage of WASH services - Roundtable Meeting, 24 June 2009
Slippage of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services is now recognised as one of the main challenges facing the WASH Sector. Slippage can be defined as the falling back of a certain level of WASH services to a lower level of services over a defined period of time. Slippage can be caused by a wide range of possible causes, however, all these different causes for slippage are related, in some way or other, to poor WASH governance. This can be read in the statements coming from the Round-table meeting on “Slippage of WASH services” at CESS, Hyderabad in India, 24 June 2009.
Hygiene papers
Full papers presented at the South Asia Hygiene practitioners’ workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop is organised by BRAC, WaterAid, WSSCC, and IRC and is part of five learning and sharing workshops on sanitation and hygiene organised in 2009 and 2010.
Rabin Bastola talking about Nepal and water and sanitation know-how
WaterCube.tv in Stockhom talks with Rabin Bastola of the Resource Centre Network in Nepal (RCNN). This network shares knowledge in water and sanitation with local partner organisations. WaterCube talks with Rabin about the kind of information the RCNN is sharing - specifically ecological sanitation, which can dramatically improve health and living conditions for the poor. Rabin talks here with Mark Charmer of Akvo. Stockholm World Water Week, Sunday 16 August 2009.
Photo story: Promoting sanitation with women and men, girls and boys in Banjarmasin, Indonesia
As part of her advisory work for the Indonesian Sanitation Sector Development Programme (ISSDP) in 14 towns of Indonesia IRC’s Christine Sijbesma is assisting the programme on gender and participation. In April 2009 she and the local team faciltated a rapid and participatory assessment in two high-priority communities in Banjarmasin on sanitation needs by women and men. These assessments allow women and usually “forgotten” men to formulate demands for sanitation improvements. It gives pointers on their willingness and capacity to contribute in better-off, worse-off and in-between groups. It also provides insights in the degree of organization and influence of women and men and local cadres. The resulting scores give a ranking of the high-priority communities in terms of conditions, demand and organizational capacity, which helps high risk communities and the city sanitation working group to select the first community/ies for rapid action and a more likely quick success.
Using theatre to promote men’s hygiene in Nepal
Local health workers in Nepal are performing in village plays to promote men’s hygiene.
It’s an innovative way of getting the hygiene message across to the target audience – men. Targeting men is not easy because, in many districts, men go to India for six months at a time for work.
Principal Secretary challenges WASHCost to throw “intense light” on India's water problems
The senior civil servant in charge of rural water and sanitation in the state of Andhra Pradesh has challenged WASHCost to throw “intense light” on some of the alarming problems India is facing in conserving water and delivering services to an ever growing population.
Making sanitation and hygiene services more gender equitable and fairer to the poor
City sanitation strategy planning in Indonesia focuses on equal involvement of women and men in all sanitation services. In the six cities taking part in an ISSDP programme poor women, men and children work in the informal sector for solid waste collection, segregation and recycling, as labourer and some as entrepreneurs. The work is an important source of income for poor families and helps reduce poverty.
Read more or download ISSDP Factsheet 7 Gender and Poverty Inclusive CSS.pdf (441 kB)
QIS workshop in Nepalgunj, Nepal
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) and Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) held a QIS (Quantitative Information System) workshop in Nepalgunj, Mid Western Region, Nepal from 17 to 22 June 2008.
WASPA Asia
The WASPA (Wastewater Agriculture and Sanitation for Poverty Alleviation) programme consists of pilots in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The programme will run for 3 years and be completed in December 2008. Relevant information can be found in this folder.
Sanitation and Hygiene Workshop
WaterAid, BRAC and IRC jointly organised a 3-day learning and sharing workshop (for Sanitation & Hygiene Practitioners) from 29-31 January 2008, in Gazipur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The workshop papers are made available by WaterAid and IRC in a joint publication called "Beyond construction: use by all". Each paper can be downloaded separately.
