Programmes and activities
In Burkina Faso, IRC spans various action-research and implementation programmes and activities. Their common focus is to improve local governance of WASH services and to strengthen cooperation and coordination among sector agencies.
The Resource Centre Network Burkina Faso: sector learning between history and future
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead?
Training water actors on using blogs in Burkina Faso
During a training that took place on the 1st of March 2011 at 2iE, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 16 stakeholders from the WASH sector in Burkina were trained on using blogs, and more.
SaniFaso
The SaniFaso project was introduced in Burkina Faso in December 2010 with the aim of eradicating open defecation in 12 partnering communes (the lowest level of administrative division) throughout the country. This 3 million Euros programme co-funded by the European Commission is being implemented by the French NGO Eau-Vive, in association with WaterAid Burkina Faso, Helvetas, GIZ/PEA and IRC.
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.
WASHTech
The overall development objective of new project is to strengthen sector capacity to make effective investment in new technologies, through research and development of a framework, which assesses the potential of new technologies introduced into innovative de-centralised systems.This project funded by the EC FP7- Africa research programme takes place in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda from 2011 to 2013.
More information on the project, updates on progress and outputs can be found on the project website: http://washtechafrica.wordpress.com/
