Water and Sanitation features
Hands-on campaign makes soap a “must-have” product in Ghana
06 Nov 08
Ghanaians use soap, and they buy a lot of it. However, the soap is almost all used for cleaning clothes, washing dishes and bathing. In a baseline study, 75 percent of mothers claimed to wash hands with soap after toilet use, but observation showed that only a third of mothers washed their hands at all and only 3 percent washed with soap.
Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University
06 Nov 08
Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty and improve world health than any other possible measure, according to an analysis released [19 Oct 2008] by the United Nations University - International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).
Ghana: Presidential candidates quizzed about sanitation on prime time radio
06 Nov 08
Candidates for the Ghanaian presidential election scheduled for December 2008 answered questions on prime time radio about their sanitation plans if they are elected.
IRC moves back to The Hague
06 Nov 08
IRC is on the move. After almost a decade in Delft, sharing a building with UNESCO – IHE Institute for Water Education, the IRC team will move back to The Hague in mid December 2008.
Six drivers for families to move up the sanitation ladder
13 Aug 08
Six factors lead communities to adopt CLTS and then drive movement up the ladder.
Once on the sanitation ladder, families want to go higher
13 Aug 08
A critical factor in the success of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Asia and Africa is held to be that community members, after the initial stages of “ignition” and adoption of safe hygienic and sanitation practices, rise up the “sanitation ladder” to install and use better sanitation facilities.
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): long term validation and agreed standards are needed
12 Aug 08
IRC’s Christine Sijbesma in her summary paper for the South Asian Sanitation and Hygiene Practitioners workshop, raises a number of cautionary matters that are emerging and need to be addressed for the continued success of CLTS.
The Atieno family: A comic strip about the urban poor
12 Aug 08
Allow us to introduce you to the comic strip heroes, the Atieno family and their friends and neighbours, who will star at the IRC sanitation and urban poor symposium in November 2008.
Essays on urban sanitation
12 Aug 08
For the IRC symposium on Sanitation for the Urban Poor, IRC has invited five authors to write an essay that provides an overview of the concurrent thinking around five selected topics: improving local governance; partnerships for sanitation; dynamics of urban settlements; financing sanitation for the urban poor; and effective urban sanitation technologies for the poor.
Key issues in Sanitation for the Urban Poor at IRC 40 symposium
12 Aug 08
IRC is marking its 40th anniversary with a three-day practitioner and research based Symposium that will focus attention on one of the most intractable and neglected problems of our age – sanitation in the poorest areas of the world’s cities.
