Programmes and activities
Selection of programmes and activities of IRC and partners in South Asia.
ISSDP-PPSP-USDP
IRC cooperates with DHV/MLD to provide technical assistance to the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP) focusing on 330 cities in Indonesia. Financial support comes from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. USDP started in 2010 and will last for five years. Information on this programme and some outputs are provided here.
WASHCost
The WASHCost Project (2008-2012) in which IRC and partners are involved, researches the life-cycle costs of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural and peri-urban areas in four countries. The rationale is that WASH governance will improve at all levels, as decision makers and stakeholders analyse the costs of sustainable, equitable and efficient services and put their knowledge to use.
Rural Sanitation Marketing in Vietnam
Documents on a rural sanitation marketing project in Thanh Hoa and Quang Nam provinces, Vietnam.
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.
IRC case study on commercial faecal sludge recycling features in the New Agriculturist
The July 2012 issue of the New Agriculturist features a story about the "honey-suckers" of Bengaluru, which is based on a case study published by IRC. In Bengaluru in southern India, tanker drivers known as honey-suckers provide a valuable sanitation service, collecting faecal sludge from households not served by the sewerage network.
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.
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.
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 (441.4 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.
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.
