All publications by publication date
All available official IRC publications listed by date of publication.
Smart Water Solutions
30 Mar 06
This booklet on water, like its counterpart Smart Sanitation Solutions, gives examples of small-scale innovative technologies to increase access to safe drinking water.
Read more or download SWS_2006.pdf (1,022.6 kB)
Smart Sanitation Solutions
14 Mar 06
Smart Sanitation Solutions contains examples of low-cost technologies for toilets, collection, transportation, treatment and use of sanitation products.
Read more or download SSS_2006.pdf (1.6 MB)
WASH scenarios for 2015: A trends analysis paper
13 Mar 06
IRC, like other organisations, has to plan its activities without being sure what the future will look like. Four scenarios have been compiled by two IRC staff members based on some possible outcomes of the most volatile and important variables. The pictures that emerge may look optimistic or pessimistic; but they show a range of outcomes that IRC will need to plan for and to which it must respond.
Read more or download OP41_WASHScenarios.pdf (369.3 kB)
Ensuring Sustained Beneficial Outcomes for Water and Sanitation Programmes in the Developing World
04 Jan 06
The two objectives of this document are firstly to suggest approaches to achieve sustained beneficial outcomes from WATSAN, and secondly how to ‘scale up’ application of these approaches, so that they impact positively on the lives of the millions of people who live without safe water or adequate sanitation.
Read more or download OP40-E.pdf (1.3 MB)
Hygiene Promotion
04 Jan 06
This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) is about the aims and the impact of hygiene promotion. Effective hygiene promotion reduces the main risky hygiene practices and conditions for women, children and men. It does so in a measurable way, to a significant level, in a pre-set period and within available resources.
Read more or download TOP1_HygPromo_05.pdf (634.3 kB)
Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods: A guide to local water management
14 Oct 05
This website is targeted at water sector professionals who are actively engaged in the implementation of ‘Integrated Water Resources Management’ (IWRM). The main focus is on local opportunities and actions to secure and build upon the universal needs of people for household water supplies.
The Joy of Learning: Participatory lesson plans on hygiene, sanitation, water, health and the environment
14 Oct 05
This guide is meant for teachers and others who want to design participatory learning activities on hygiene and sanitation. It is divided into two parts: theory and lesson plans. The lesson plans are organised into three sections: hygiene (including personal and food hygiene), sanitation and water.
Read more or download TP45_Joy_05.pdf (2.0 MB)
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education for Schools: Roundtable Proceedings and Framework for Action
08 Aug 05
This publication is a report of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Schools Roundtable meeting, which took place in Oxford, UK, 24-26 January 2005.
Read more or download UNICEF-IRC_Oxford_Roundtabl.pdf (1.9 MB)
Le Genre dans la Gestion des Ressources en Eau, L’Approvisionnement en Eau et Assainissement : Revue des Rôles et Réalités
08 Aug 05
Ce livre présente un cadre simplifié pour l’analyse du genre. Seulement disponible en version électronique (PDF).
Plugging the Leak: Can Europeans find new sources of funding to fill the MDG water and sanitation gap?
12 Jul 05
The starting point for this study was to investigate the possibilities for raising additional funds in Europe to help bridge the funding gap to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for water and sanitation in developing countries.
Read more or download OP39_PluggingtheLeak.pdf (198.9 kB)
