All publications by publication date
All available official IRC publications listed by date of publication.
School Sanitation and Hygiene Education
01 Jan 03
School sanitation and hygiene education (SSHE) refers to the combination of hardware and software components that are necessary to produce a healthy school environment and develop or support safe hygiene behaviour.
Integrated Catchment Management and Sustainable Water Resource Development in Semi-arid Zimbabwe
01 Jan 03
The main message of the document is that groundwater in much of semi-arid Zimbabwe is a currently underused but fast developing resource that plays a key role in the livelihoods of rural people.
Read more or download OP35_IntegratedCatchment.pdf (2.6 MB)
Supporting Community Management: a manual for training in community management in the water and sanitation sector
01 Sep 02
This manual provides background on key concepts and skill, and innovative tools to help improve the training of field staff related to community management of water and sanitation services.
This manual is divided in two parts.
Community Water, Community Management
01 Jan 02
Community management has become the leading concept for implementing water supply systems in rural areas in developing countries. In the early days it was seen as the answer to large scale breakdown of water supply systems and the failure of government either to provide clean water itself or to devise a system whereby other agencies would supply it reliably and consistently.
How to Support Community Management of Water Supplies: Guidelines for managers
01 Jan 02
This book is for those who are in charge of facilitating community management of water supplies. It provides guidelines and food for thought for managers and decision-makers who want to improve the performance of their organisation and make sure that water supply services in place keep working. It answers such questions as: what kind of support do communities require? How can this support be provided? What are the organisational conditions we need to put in place? What tools can we use? Who should be involved? What does it demand from support organisations and the communities? In other words: what does it take to support community management of water supplies.
Read more or download TP37_HowSupportCM_1.pdf (1.1 MB)
School Sanitation and Hygiene Education India: Resource Book and Handbook for Teachers
01 Jan 02
This package of two manuals examines key features of SSHE such as: behavioural change, education and training, strategic planning, district planning, local mobilisation, technologies, and ongoing school/community activities.
Small Community Water Supplies: Technology, people and partnership
01 Jan 02
In 1981 IRC first published Small Community Water Supplies and the book has been a regular bestseller.
Key Factors for Sustainable Cost Recovery in the Context of Community-Managed Water Supply
01 Jan 02
Sustainable cost recovery relies on a series of factors that range from tariff design to the design of an appropriate strategy, the application of sound financial management principles, the optimization of costs and the promotion of willingness to pay.
Serving the Water and Sanitation Sector: resource centre experiences, developments and future trends
01 Jan 02
This publication shows how resource centres, through providing better access to knowledge, can create the conditions to improve the water and sanitation sector.
The Best of Two Worlds? Methodology for Participatory Assessment of Community Water Services
01 Jan 01
This book deals with the revolutionary Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA) developed with the World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).
Read more or download TP38_ BestTwoWorlds.pdf (2.3 MB)
