Features
‘Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation: Strengthening Capacity for Local Governance’
Capacity development of local governance (“the intermediate level”) is crucial for achieving the MDGs and for sustained performance of water supply and sanitation systems in the developing world.
Madiha’s life made easy – it’s all on the record for EMPOWERS
Life in Kassab village in Egypt is changing as traditional methods of collecting and storing water are replaced by a cleaner and easier supply to taps at home. The first pilot project of EMPOWERS supports families to connect water pipes to their homes, through loans to spread the cost of connection.
Documentaries record EMPOWERS progress on film
The EMPOWERS teams are preparing for producing documentary films highlighting the project’s activities in the three countries
Building Capacity for Better Municipal Wastewater Management: a UNESCO – UNEP Partnership
Discharging untreated wastewater has a severe impact on the environment, on the well being of those living near polluted water, and on fisheries, tourism and other important industries. Although this impact is known and acknowledged, in many parts of the world sewage is still discharged directly into water bodies without any form of treatment.
Resource Centres make a difference with tangible information products and services for the sector
Over the past five years, IRC and partner organisations from more than 18 countries have shown the value of Resource Centres (RCs) by offering information products and services that have proved essential in the WASH sector.
RCD partners share lessons from five years joint learning
“I have learned more in a week about my own organisation and the sector than I have in a month at the office.” This was the judgment of one participant following a Learning and Sharing workshop organised in Uganda for Resource Centre Development (RCD) partners in Anglophone Africa.
Resource Centre Development practitioners use Skype for learning and sharing
IRC and resource centre partners have recently been experimenting with using innovative and cheap Skype voice, chat and text options on the internet to develop collaborative papers. IRC colleague Peter Bury, based in Italy, has been taking the lead with partners in South Africa, Pakistan and India.
IRC News
New directions for RCD under IRC’s new Business Plan
There is widespread acknowledgement of the need for better use of available information and knowledge in the WASH sector. But most services and products of the resource centres cannot be produced on the basis that they recover their costs.
Our readers put Source articles to good use
Newsletter articles from our family of Source newsletters in different formats, languages and content are proving very useful for readers in their work. More than half of the 116 survey respondents said the electronic Source provided examples that have helped them in their work. Nine out of ten readers of the Source Bulletin (there were 124 responses on this paper version) also gave examples of how they used the information in their work.
Interesting examples on use of Source Bulletin articles
Articles from Source Bulletin were used in village committees, in primary schools, to develop knowledge management capacity, proposal writing, running a workshop for community leaders.
