Webinars

The IRC webinars are an initiative from the IRC team working on innovations in WASH. This team seeks to enhance learning and sharing of lessons on innovations in the WASH sector. Monthly lunch meetings are organised for IRC staff and broadcasted via the web so that others can follow, or download the presentation and discussion.

Webinar - the use of evidence in achieving IRC's mission

On 6 March 2013, IRC organised an in-house webinar to discuss the use of evidence in achieving IRC's mission. In this folder you can find a blog post by Carmen da Silva Wells summarising the webinar discussions, the webinar recordings and the presentation.

On 11 July 2012, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organised a webinar for its staff and partners to discuss the lessons that are emerging around the topic of sector learning with WASH Resource Centre Networks. A topic that IRC has been working on since 2009 with partners from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda.

On 22 June 2012 an in-house IRC seminar took place to identify different scaling pathways for MUS and to discuss the ways in which IRC can contribute to reaching those. New research findings were presented, as well as the recently developed guidelines for MUS; and a joint analysis was carried out on the institutional opportunities and barriers in different scaling pathways for MUS.

Waste is a resource in the wrong place. People who have no sewer connection do go to the toilet though urban authorities seem to think differently given the neglect of the multitude of sanitation self-service models that have emerged in many cities. An IRC webinar on 2 May 2012 discussed the productive use of faecal sludge by farmers in Bengaluru.

Post-construction support has often been claimed to improve the provision of rural water supply services. Little quantitative evidence exists on how this works out in practice. IRC and CINARA have studied the impact of post-construction support on both the performance of rural service providers and of the service level that is eventually provided and intended to unravel which support aspects are most relevant in creating impact. On 7 March 2012, the study results were presented in a webinar and a broader discussion on the role of post-construction support on rural water supplies took place.

How to assess and monitor functionality of water services? IRC is testing out FLOW in three districts in Ghana. FLOW helps the user assess whether facilities are functioning or are on the verge of disrepair. In a webinar on 1 February 2012, Marieke Adank and Nicolas Dickinson shared their experiences with FLOW in three districts in Ghana.