All publications by publication date

All available official IRC publications listed by date of publication.



Village Level Operation and Maintenance of Handpumps: experiences from Karonga, Malawi

01 Jan 96

This paper documents the experiences from the Karonga Lakeshore Groundwater Project, a small rural water supply project in northern Malawi, and emphasizes that village level operation and maintenance (VLOM) is not a technical but a community concept.

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The Community-Managed Sanitation Programme in Kerala: learning from experience

01 Jan 96

Relates the experiences in the sanitation programme of the Socio-Economic Units (SEUs), which began in 1989 as a component of the rural water supply programme financed by the Indian, Dutch and Danish governments.

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Gender in Community Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Resource Protection: a guide to methods and techniques

01 Jan 95

Originally prepared as the background document for the three regional workshops and now updated and revised to provide a basic guide to methods and techniques for planning and implementing a gender approach in water and sanitation projects.

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Woman, Water, Sanitation: annual abstract journal 1995

01 Jan 95

Woman, Water, Sanitation is an annual, comprehensive overview of the latest documents on gender issues in water supply and sanitation.

Special issue: Financing

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Making Your Water Supply Work: operation and maintenance of small water supplies

01 Jan 95

Provides recent information on trends and developments in the operation and maintenance of water supply systems of small communities, based on a review of available literature, comments from the Operation and Maintenance Working Group of the Water Supply

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Towards Sustainable Water Supply: eight years' experience from Guinea Bissau

01 Jan 95

Documents eight years of experience of the Netherlands-supported project, Maintenance Rural Water Supply (MRW/H14) from 1987 to 1993.

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Working with Women and Men on Water and Sanitation: an African field guide

01 Jan 94

Developed by African women experts participating in the Kenya workshop. Aims to provide guidance on planning and implementing water and sanitation projects and programmes with a gender-aware approach.

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Together for Water and Sanitation: tools to apply a gender approach. The Asian experience

01 Jan 94

Part I of this manual, which results from the gender workshop in Sri Lanka, provides a theoretical framework for women's involvement and applying a gender approach.

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Woman, Water, Sanitation: annual abstract journal 1994

01 Jan 94

Woman, Water, Sanitation is an annual, comprehensive overview of the latest documents on gender issues in water supply and sanitation.

Special issue: Sanitation

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The Use of Structured Observations in the Study of Health Behaviour

01 Jan 94

Revised version of a paper submitted to a Workshop on the Measurement of Hygiene Behaviour, held in Oxford, England, in April 1991. Provides detailed guidelines for the use of structured observations in the study of health behaviour.

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